Top 100 Australia's Quotes
#1. It's my mission to tell the Australians from abroad in my work that Australia is a wonderful place.
Clive James
#2. It's got more cosmopolitan, and it's lost its uniqueness, but Australia is still a great place.
Paul Hogan
#3. This is not a book about Australia. No, it's about somewhere entirely different which happens to be, here and there, a bit ... Australian. Still ... no worries, right?
Terry Pratchett
#4. Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.
Robin Boyd
#5. The best experiences can't be forced and they come when you least expect it. You don't find misadventure, it finds you.
S.A. Tawks
#6. Looking back really does make you wonder, but the truth is it doesn't change a thing.
S.A. Tawks
#7. An adventurer has a purpose. Such as finding new lands and valuable treasures. A misadventurer, besides doing it for the hell of it and for a good time, doesn't really have a good purpose.
S.A. Tawks
#8. Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the things you do is speak frankly about the country as you see the country's best interests, you know?
Paul Keating
#9. There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five.
Guy Pearce
#10. I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.
Tony Abbott
#11. I'd like to set a story in Australia, but I would need to feel confident my German and U.S. readers, for example, would stay with me.
Michael Robotham
#12. She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics.
S.A. Tawks
#13. There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out of the city and relax. I try and 'go bush' to places where there's no cell reception. But, I don't get to do that often, so for the most part, it's just a state of mind.
Cate Blanchett
#14. My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad.
S.A. Tawks
#15. But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
Malcolm Turnbull
#16. It was as if I was automatically one of them because I smoked.
S.A. Tawks
#17. I don't understand anyone thinking I'm sexy at all. I don't get it because, growing up as a kid, I wasn't. I was like a dork, fat, so for me it's really weird. I became famous in Australia when I was 18, and I was still a little bit chubby.
Sophie Monk
#18. My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.
Brandi Chastain
#19. I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care.
S.A. Tawks
#20. There's great wine from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile and, of course, California. But there's nothing like a really great French wine, they're so well balanced. The better the wine, the less you feel the effects I think.
Ridley Scott
#21. I don't really take vacations because when I'm working, it's usually in a far-flung, exotic place somewhere. But I have a farm in Australia I like to go back to when I'm at home and not working.
Russell Crowe
#22. Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what, it's not. It's rough as guts.
Tanc Sade
#23. In Australia and New Zealand, and New Zealand especially, I always find everyone is so nice and friendly. It's one of the few places that I remember visually, like I remember where I stayed and my surroundings - and that's a good sign, because I've got a terrible memory. I'm looking forward to it!
Ellie Goulding
#24. Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it's not necessarily everyone's place to come to Australia.
Tony Abbott
#25. We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy.
Kevin Rudd
#26. People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.
Cate Blanchett
#27. I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone.
Eric Bana
#29. Ty?" I said, trying out your name, liking the way it sounded. "So what's it like anyway? Australia?"
You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you.
"You'll find out," you said.
Lucy Christopher
#30. It's definitely different in the States. Americans are much different people compared to us. We're much more laid back. I itch to get back to Australia every summer because it's so fast paced there and so stressful.
Andrew Bogut
#31. My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
Dame Edna Everage
#32. Australia is the same size as the U.S., but it's much smaller in terms of population. I've been working in the States off and on since the '80s, and the first time I played a lead here was in '91, I think.
Robert Taylor
#33. I guess on a base level that's one of the first parental instincts that you have with children in Australia is learn to swim. Not only learn to swim but learn to swim strong.
Eric Bana
#34. A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf
Harold Larwood
#35. My newfound motivation had me feeling confident in my ability and I headed to Mackay with a plan.
S.A. Tawks
#36. The four seasons in Australia consist of "fuck it's hot," "Can you believe how fucking hot it is?", "I won't be in today because it is too fucking hot" and "Yes, the dinner plate size spiders come inside to escape from the heat. That is a fucking whopper though.
David Thorne
#37. You know what it's like - you see someone on the train screaming awful, racist things and think, 'How can I protect this person's right to free speech?
Tony Abbott
#38. Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia, any place in Asia, Germany, Africa, it becomes something where you can still go and work. Hip hop is an import culture. We're spoiled by it here. It's homegrown.
Talib Kweli
#39. If a company in Australia has to pay tax and the other one doesn't, of course it's a disadvantage.
Gerry Harvey
#40. I'd shown interest, and showing interest in Bali means that the salesman is most likely going to walk away with your money.
S.A. Tawks
#41. A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor.
Kevin Rudd
#42. She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's.
Colleen McCullough
#43. In Australia, we point out a person's weaknesses as a way of saying 'I see you and I accept you'. If you do that with Americans, they instantly take offence.
Andrew Dominik
#44. There were no snooty commuters at this late hour. They were home snug in their beds where they should be.
S.A. Tawks
#45. The purpose of water is to drink it but we swim in it for the fun of it.
S.A. Tawks
#46. Western Australia is covered by granite, the largest single piece of Achaean rock that still lies on the surface of the, of, of the Earth, that's 2.5 to 2.9 billion years old. It's one of the most ancient and intact bits of the Earth's crust.
Antony Gormley
#47. If I hadn't worked up the courage to talk to Christy, she most likely would have been a pretty face that disappeared back into the crowd.
S.A. Tawks
#48. My grandfather was like Australia's Tom Jones.
Conrad Sewell
#49. Men and women of western Sydney, it's appropriate, you apparently believe, that Australia's oldest surviving Prime Minister should make the concluding remarks in Australia's oldest surviving Government House. I hope the building's foundations are a bit more substantial than mine.
Gough Whitlam
#50. We should all live in central or southwest Queensland in Australia, which is geologically stable. Or Kansas or Nebraska, because it's relatively geologically stable. I am sure there is no emergency plan for Topeka.
Simon Winchester
#51. There is a deep affection in Australia for the Queen. And I mean the Queen's been the Queen ever since I was born. I mean she is part of the firmament of Australia's sort of national life; there's a deep respect for her role.
Kevin Rudd
#52. If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on.
S.A. Tawks
#53. No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic; capturing small insects and injecting them with enough poison to drop a horse would appear to be the most literal case of overkill. Still, it does mean that everyone gives them lots of space.
Bill Bryson
#54. As academia became my identity, my fascination with firefighters became buried and, seemingly, died.
S.A. Tawks
#55. I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.
Andy Gibb
#56. My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges.
S.A. Tawks
#57. You know, when my dad was a racing fan in Australia he would follow Jack Brabham and sometimes only hear if he won two days after a race - when the result finally appeared in his newspaper. These days I can tweet something and it's all over the world in seconds.
Mark Webber
#58. It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.
Peter Carey
#59. Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent.
Richard Allen
#60. I guess having one hundred and four condoms full of heroin in your guts and the thought of a firing squad in your head make will make most things seem insignificant.
S.A. Tawks
#61. I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.
S.A. Tawks
#62. Inside the myth of Australia's economic superheroes."
We're living through the second longest boom in Australian history. You can't move for talk of the budget surplus.
Andrew Charlton
#63. I would love to do something on the other side of the world. I'd trade places with some guy on a ranch in Australia and see what that's like for a day. Somebody with different ideals and things that I would probably take advantage of.
Justin Deeley
#64. Australia is much more liberal in accepting de facto relationships than the U.S.
Gillian Armstrong
#65. The false hope I filled myself with is fleeing and I'm beginning to feel scared again.
S.A. Tawks
#66. It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.
Tony Abbott
#67. I think growing up in the States and Australia, we were exposed to a lot of different types of things. I used to go to Gilman to watch punk shows, and it's a complete different environment - you were inspired by so many different things, whereas in Hong Kong, there is nothing for anybody.
Daniel Wu
#68. I realised I got anxious because my true aspiration wasn't to become the chief of a multi-billion dollar, multi-national company that created widgets or some shit.
S.A. Tawks
#69. It was odd but I couldn't jump the chasm of missing evidence to the conclusion Todd was making.
S.A. Tawks
#70. I think it's interesting that the United States and Australia are two of the most individualistic nations in the entire world in terms of national personality.
Katharine Hayhoe
#71. I really love filling out forms - quite fortuitous, really, given that as one of Australia's 4 million-ish disabled people, ticking boxes and recording my life for other people is what I've spent a fair chunk of my time doing.
Stella Young
#72. Misadventure will always cause someone to be pissed off at you, because they don't know what degree you're willing to go to to satisfy your need for misadventure.
S.A. Tawks
#73. We shouldn't be put out to pasture just because we've reached somebody's idea of retirement, which was certainly happening in Australia, and I think elsewhere as well.
John Noble
#74. I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a much murkier, much more complex view of its history. It's just full of all these open wounds we don't really know what to do with.
Nick Cave
#75. I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird.
Henry Rollins
#76. Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way of life again and you have to come back to America.
Andrew Bogut
#77. Our modern history begins in 1788 with the dumping of the human detritus of Britain ... Yet repositioned in the sunlight , they flourished. ...This was colonial Australia's great gift to the world: practical proof that, when it comes to human society, the soil is more important than the seed.
Richard Glover
#78. The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action.
Richie Benaud
#79. Patience, persistence and hard work lead to success and happiness. Or you can do whatever the hell you want and with a bit or a whole lot of luck you'll stumble onto success and happiness.
S.A. Tawks
#80. He was the captain of the rugby team and he was built like a fucking gorilla. He had the personality of a fucking gorilla, too.
S.A. Tawks
#81. Well they're very, very genuine concerns at present as to the status of the 800 people who are to be sent by Australia to Malaysia. There's concern about the status of asylum seekers in Malaysia generally, but there's concern about the status of the 800 to be sent.
Julie Bishop
#82. Kosykh: What the hell ... is there really no one even to talk to? We might as well be living in Australia: no common interests, no solidarity ... Everyone lives separate lives ... But I must go ... it's time. [Takes his cap.] Time is precious. [Gives Lebedev his hand.] I pass!
Anton Chekhov
#83. Well Australia's been in Afghanistan from the get go, way back in 2001, but we have been resolute throughout and with support from both sides of Australian politics.
Kevin Rudd
#84. I don't look to celebrities for style anymore because I've learned the chain of command. They are being dressed by a stylist who's getting inspiration from a 16-year-old kid running the streets of Melbourne, Australia. Once I learned that chain of command, I just started taking it to the streets.
Lizzo
#85. It's a pretty blokey magazine [Bacon Busters, 'Australia's only magazine dedicated to pig hunting'], but they have women in it too. There's a 'Boars and Babes' section: women in bikinis sitting on big old pigs.
Andrew Symonds
#86. I want you to know what I have told Australia's Parliament in Canberra - what I told General Petraeus in Kabul - what I told President Obama in the Oval Office this week. Australia will stand firm with our ally the United States.
Julia Gillard
#87. When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.
Ben Nicholson
#88. There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe.
Rachel Ward
#89. We must respect each other's right to choose a collective destiny, and the opportunity to develop the legal and political rights for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples so that we may enjoy the right to maintain our culture, our heritage and our land, as a united Australia.
Jackie Huggins
#90. Well, there have been periods in the past when prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand were at each others' throats publicly and frequently. That's not productive at all.
Helen Clark
#91. Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to let the serious business of living proceed without distraction.
Robin Boyd
#92. Australia will always be closer to the U.S. than she is to China because our values and political traditions are much closer.
John Howard
#93. When you're in the safety of the future, the past doesn't seem so relevant.
S.A. Tawks
#94. People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked.
John Anderson
#95. My husband does say it is Australia's job and my family's job to keep me grounded. They do a very good job!
Liane Moriarty
#96. The aborigines in Australia, the way they dress is very honest; it's not about: "Oh, you wear a skirt, you're gay."
Riccardo Tisci
#97. If Australia is attacked, it's no longer terrorism. We have invaded Iraq. Iraq, or its new allies, have every right to attack back.
Margo Kingston
#98. There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.
Ernest Istook
#99. I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.
Jason Gann
#100. It feels like it's just starting in America and the UK. It's great to have a loyal fanbase in Australia and New Zealand. People in America say how polished our band are, but that didn't happen overnight; that came from doing all this touring back home.
Kimbra
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