Northern Territory Sayings

#1. The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory ... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting with the red earth and the deep blue sky of the Dreamtime region that has for centuries sustained Namatjira's Aranda people.

Richard Allen

#2. We need development in the Northern Territory but we don't need it based on something we might get in five years. We don't need it based on something that someone's done a couple of, they haven't even bothered with the back of the beer coaster.

Nigel Scullion

#3. If someone comes to me, any community in the Northern Territory, with a viable economic future, and says, 'We want to be part of a bold new approach,' I'll put them down as a major project, and I'll do everything I can to help them out.

Adam Giles

#4. There's not enough of us in the Northern Territory in Federal Parliament to squabble.

Nigel Scullion

#5. Guido had lived as all Jews do, who, cut off from their people by accident or choice, find that they must inhabit a world whose constituents, being alien, force the mind to succumb to an imaginary populace.

Djuna Barnes

#6. Simply knowing you exist, ain't good enough for me

Kate Nash

#7. I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.

Little Richard

#8. In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball.

Don Meyer

#9. The gap between rich and poor is widening dramatically. There's a hangar at the Cairo airport for private jets, billionaires are on the Forbes list, and Egypt's annual per-capita income is two thousand dollars. How can you sustain that?

Mohamed ElBaradei

#10. When you've gone through something traumatic, when you've faced death and loss as much as we have, it's only natural that it changes your entire view of life.

Claire Bidwell Smith

#11. There are two things that really get under Gary Neville's skin: scousers and policemen.

Rio Ferdinand

#12. I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory is very much the Republic of Ireland rather than the North. Even though, if I wrote a novel about the North, it might sell more.

Colm Toibin

#13. I talk too much when I'm nervous.

Suzanne Shaw

#14. We create truths by describing, or by re-describing , our beliefs and observations. Our task, and the task of every artist and scientist, is to re-describe our inherited assumptions and invented fictions in order to create new paradigms for the future.

Anne Bogart

#15. From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

Friedrich Engels

#16. The most important civil liberty ... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death ...

John Howard

#17. O sweet Lord Jesus, thou art the present portion of thy people, favour us this year with such a sense of thy preciousness, that from its first to its last day we may be glad and rejoice in thee. Let January open with joy in the Lord, and December close with gladness in Jesus.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#18. I'm not perfect but I'm learning to be better.

Ronnie Radke