Kalgoorlie Mine Quotes

#1. Do you really believe that in the late 1800s Paddy Hannan would have walked 600 miles in the hot sun from Perth to Kalgoorlie to discover gold if he had to pay the Wayne Swan resource super tax?

Clive Palmer

#2. I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person - and I fail.

Julian Casablancas

#3. I don't belong to the straights now - they didn't get me back.

Anne Heche

#4. You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.

Miuccia Prada

#5. I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.

Barry Marshall

#6. Sometimes this genius goes dark and drowns in the bitter wells of his heart.

Clemens Brentano

#7. To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.

Epictetus

#8. Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.

John Forbes Nash

#9. The singing Sun the signing moon the singing stars and the singing galaxies are the direct expression of the divine word AUM.

Amit Ray

#10. The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#11. When you're a kid and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just think of a man with a beard painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Noel Fielding