Great Australian Quotes

#1. All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other.

Francis Ford Coppola

#2. Eucalyptus. Murray Bail. Someone told me that this was a great novel so I bought it, but then I discovered that it was great Australian novel so I put it away. I find it difficult to get to grips with Australian novels. Difficult, but not impossible.

Susan Hill

#3. You can't understand us. We don't even understand ourselves.

Kelly Creagh

#4. Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up to Him and see His deliverance.

Jerry Bridges

#5. When intentional, there is no right or wrong in writing - only creativity, personality and a new way to look at words. If you see wrong, you've missed the right.

Ryan J. Alls

#6. I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.

Hannah Gadsby

#7. It's a fun day, a day which kicks off the start of our tour, it's got great tradition - Australian cricketers just love tradition - and it's been a really pleasant day.

Matthew Hayden

#8. Australian people are dope. They're so fun. They want to just have a good time, and they have a great sense of humour.

Erin Heatherton

#9. Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.

Samantha Stosur

#10. I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal.

Julian Assange

#11. I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.

Barbara Hershey

#12. Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#13. His great carved wooden head was marked with a black eye that was more yellow than black and from this spectacular bed of bruised flesh the eye itself, sand irritated, bloodshot, as wild as a currawong's, stared out at a landscape in which the tops of fences protruded from windswept sand.

Peter Carey

#14. We discovered that there was a great deal of keen interest in America for the kinds of products that we thought could be produced here. Also there was an interest in Britain for Australian material generally.

Ann Macbeth

#15. There is a very special place in the Australian psyche for sport. It is one of the pillars of the Australian way of life. You don't really understand what makes the Australian nation tick unless you understand the great affection Australians have for sport.

John Howard

#16. I don't wear lipstick when I'm not at work.

Lily Donaldson

#17. It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#18. MPU was a great platform for emotional drama and Australian stories.

Michael A. Healy

#19. Use of the word; the word itself was not printed.

Robert Vaughan

#20. The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget ... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down.

Lionel Murphy

#21. (on his thought on excessive nationalism) ...the country was no doubt very important, but that there was no need at all to act the clown by talking about it all the time, as if one were completely possessed by it.

Soseki Natsume

#22. I didn't learn much about writing at Sarah Lawrence, but I learned a lot about the sources of poems - dreams, myth, history - from the really great teachers, Joseph Campbell, Charles Trinkhaus, Bert Loewenberg, and a young Australian anthropologist named Harry Hawthorne.

Carolyn Kizer

#23. I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.

Max Von Sydow

#24. How many pessimists does it take to change a lightbulb? Never mind. Nobody would get the joke anyway.

Garrison Keillor

#25. Everywhere on this day, the after-war continues, as eternally as war itself,

David Finkel

#26. It is tragic that we have lost one of our nation's finest actors in the prime of his life. Heath Ledger's diverse and challenging roles will be remembered as some of the great performances by an Australian actor.

Kevin Rudd

#27. So they caught Gadhafi in a storm sewer and shot him. Or as they call it in the Middle East, an orderly transfer of power.

David Letterman