Quotes About Australian English

#1. Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends who are French, Australian, English and American; a very weird mix.

Caroline Winberg

#2. Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.

Lev Grossman

#3. I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

Jacki Weaver

#4. Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished.

Ann Landers

#5. The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense
all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good liturgy does. It breaks your heart open and turns you toward God.

Fred Bahnson

#6. It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.

Mallory Jansen

#7. Why do you strike?' asked Margaret. 'Striking is leaving off work till you get your own rate of wages, is it not? You must not wonder at my ignorance; where I come from I never heard of a strike.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#8. When I'm hitting, I'd play for nothing. When I'm not, any kind of money I receive makes me feel as if I'm stealing.

Mickey Mantle

#9. Often, Americans think any northern English accent is Australian.

Ryan Cartwright

#10. What I mean is don't be a person who seeks out grief. There is enough of that in life.

Nina LaCour

#11. We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#12. A smile doesn't always stand for a perfect life.

Faraaz Kazi

#13. I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of books arrive that I say I'm going to be pilloried for this or that. But then you realize it's done, and there is nothing I can do. I'm proud of the book.

David Bergen

#14. If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

Judy Garland

#15. What I am primarily is a neurogeneticist: I use genetics to study problems in neurobiology. The one problem I study primarily ... understanding of the sense of touch.

Martin Chalfie

#16. As an English player you are lifted when the crowd gets behind you. The atmosphere over here can be unsettling for the Australian players and I hope all our fans get behind us.

Gareth Ellis

#17. There's an idea that hell is other people. My idea is that it might be repetition.

Stephen King

#18. He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

Charles Caleb Colton

#19. Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.

Robert Mugabe

#20. Because I love you," I said. "Because you are in my life like the music at the edge of silence.

Robert B. Parker

#21. They have no idea how deep this goes for me. To them it's a tremor, not an earthquake.

Lilah Pace

#22. I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.

Peter Porter

#23. The Australian fans are really friendly and personable; the sense of humour is a lot less dry than the English.

Tom Hopper

#24. For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.

Radha Mitchell