Australian Author Quotes

#1. I've been a Cub all my life. I came up here when I was 20 years old and spent my whole career here in Chicago. I've always been an optimist; I believe you have to be in order to survive, to be honest with you - in health, with what I've been through. That's the way I am.

Ron Santo

#2. Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of Everest from sea to summit captured my imagination.

Tim Cope

#3. I'm still shy," I admit, pulling the sleeves over my hands, "and I might always be, I don't know, but I think you can be shy and still feel okay about yourself at the same time.

Megan Jacobson

#4. To the turtle, the concept of "loneliness" is incomprehensible. She always has been alone, and any other social state is unthinkable.

Robert H. Baker

#5. Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

William E. Gladstone

#6. Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Marcus Aurelius

#7. Over and over. They be making me remember everythings. Me old songs, they just be natural. But now they be stuffing new things into me and this poor head hurts horrid.

Lois Lowry

#8. The author says the earliest Australian aborigines devoted extraordinary amounts of energy to enterprises no one now can understand.

Bill Bryson

#9. I said very little. I knew that for the time being I was the open air, the place to put the words, not a real interlocutor. And then, ekthout a transition of any kind, she began to tell me .... {p. 134}

Siri Hustvedt

#10. There is always stardust in my eyes when I look at you, my love.

Ellen Read