Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick White

Here I hope to continue living, and while I still have the strength, to people the Australian emptiness in the only way I am able.

Having secured over 30 per cent of the Australian domestic market, we are now focused on strengthening our network, developing our product for the business market and steadily building our presence as the low-fare value-based carrier in our region,

Guus Hiddink

He's a strong, determined character and an exponent of how I see Australian football.

I think it's exciting times in Australian tennis right now,

James Hogan

It is a big rally in terms of the Australian market.

Kevin Rudd

When Howard ... sends our diplomats into Washington to try and hush this whole thing up in the middle of our Australian federal election campaign, it's plain as day that they knew what the whole problem was.

Interest-rate support for the Australian dollar will lessen quite substantially as the year progresses. We see a steady outlook from the Reserve Bank of Australia and a higher Fed rate.

Interest rate expectations will continue to support the Australian dollar.

In the Australian Cup everything went his way.

In the Australian context there have been hybrid securities for corporations for 10 years. In Europe, this is a brand new, exciting market.

Rebel Wilson

In 'A Few Best Men,' I play a lesbian character. I played the lesbian sister of the bride who ends up kissing a dude at the end, but she was, like, a full-on lesbian in that. And I beat out famous Australian lesbians for the role.

Alexander Downer

In addition, I will express Australian support for international efforts to meet the pressing humanitarian problems facing North Korea.

I guess it's up to the Australian selectors. They have the right to pick who they think are the best players.

Michael Leunig

If you're becoming weary and disillusioned with Australian values, Judeo-Christian values or Western civilisation, I recommend strangers - they're such a glorious, redeeming wilderness to wander into.

In the 1990s, they came in here and took out all of the plants that were not native to Florida. But little by little, some trees like the Australian pines and the Brazilian redwoods have reappeared.

In return we will be sharing with Microsoft information about how the Australian government uses its products.

Steve Elkington

Being Australian and living in Houston, ... I thought it was quite cool.

His creativity and energy helped elevate the Australian Open to be on a par with the other three grand slams and set a benchmark for major sporting events in Australia and around the world.

His familiarity with Australian business and government protocols, as well as the American business environment, will enhance our relationships and presence in Australia.

I'm very, very pleased. Our goal today was to come in here and do the best we could, and we did that.

I'm an Australian sprinter, we think we can win anything we go in. It doesn't matter if we have both legs tied behind our back, we think we can still win.

Justine Larbalestier

I remember that feeling when I was a young reader: finding books that were set in Sydney with Australian characters was incredibly exciting.

Luke Mitchell

I have quite an eclectic taste in music. I like Angus & Julia Stone; they are an Australian brother/sister duo. I like Adele. She is phenomenal.

Mario Ancic

I'm really happy having played four matches extremely well with unbelievable tempo coming into the final. Today I was really flat but I have to take the positive away from the four good matches I played and focus for (next week's Australian Open in) Melbourne.

Patrick Swayze

I'm looking to shoot a movie in Australia. You've got to look outside of Hollywood if you want to find people with passion. I've actually got an idea for this friendship that happens with a couple of Australian natives and an Australian guy and an American guy.

Importantly, we're taking Mark to the Tigers semi-final game on Tuesday to show him the current standard of Australian basketball.

I'm pretty sure of playing in the Australian Open, very hopeful.

Martina Hingis

I'm very excited to be making my return to competitive tennis in Australia, I have always felt at home on the Australian courts.

Increased confidence, a strong housing sector and low interest rates have got Australian consumers in buying mode.

Xavier Malisse

I'm not going to put the Australian Open in jeopardy so we'll try to fix it. I'll take tomorrow off and rest it a little, hopefully by Tuesday we'll have it fixed.

Maria Sharapova

I hope to be able to play (the Gold Coast) in 2007, and will be doing everything possible in consultation with my doctors to be healthy enough to play this Australian Open.

The jobs numbers weren't small enough to warrant a downgrade to the Australian dollar at this stage.

The IPO market has been boosted by the convergence of three factors - strong returns from the Australian equity market, a continued flood of cash from superannuation funds and the T3 effect.