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Quotes by Australian Authors
"Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner."
"The emotions must be called upon to give feeling to the thought so it will take form."
"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."
"I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything."
"Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS."
"It is refreshing to be able to express my views without having to toe a party line. It has got me into trouble on the odd occasion, but I am not going to stop saying what I think."
"The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena."
"The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane."
"Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time."
"This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this."
"At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter."
"Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things."
"The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other."
"Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world."
"Most of the things that go wrong in life don't have a lasting impact. Remind yourself that if it won't matter in ten years'time, it doesn't matter today."
"Worrying about money is one of the biggest causes of unhappiness, but no amount of money can make you happy unless you change the way you feel about it."
"We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now."
"A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn."
"Perfectionism is a lost cause. Focus your energy on being the best you can be."
"So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring."
"I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do."
"I've wept enough in my life. I have no tears left."
"I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years."
"Peer beyond the wall of doubt to embrace the possibilities."
"I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children."
"Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to."
"But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Australia on the plane and I thought it was my mum and it was Woody Allen just checking to see if I wanted to be in his movie."
"You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff."
"Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play."
"She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short."
"We are only different because there exists something to be different from, and it is this difference that bonds us."
"You are encased in my heart."
"Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism."
"The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods."
"Words make the intangible aspects of human experience communicable, and a single sentence can shatter our world view and assist us in the formulation of a new one."
"The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens."
"She made a sound of regret. 'We come second, you and I, Luc-ien,' she said. 'Our allegiance is always to our kingdoms. Without that allegiance, our people would fall.'She placed her head back against his chest and he felt her tears. 'This is not our time.''But that will never mean I love you less,' he said."
"She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect."
"Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent."
"My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage."
"No matter how much you care about someone, you can't take responsibility for their happiness."
"I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy."
"Most people are doing their best, most of the time."
"I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on."
"Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it."
"The gods whispered to you once, Finnikin. And you listened. But they are proud and refuse to speak to those who do not believe that there is something out there mightier than the minds and intellect of mortals."
"We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us."
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