Kalgoorlie 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 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

#3. Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is. Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble!

Charlotte Bronte

#4. I've always strived to be successful, not famous.

Taylor Swift

#5. It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.

Salman Rushdie

#6. Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts.

Rebecca West

#7. I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily.

Stephen Ambrose

#8. The skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds.

Nancy Willard