Quotes About Australian Literature

#1. Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life.

Alec Soth

#2. If he had given away anything else, he would have been charged with indecent exposure.

Edmund Campion

#3. If you want to see your life, you have to see through the eyes of another.

Mark Henshaw

#4. In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.

Hugh Hefner

#5. I was lucky enough to be a child during the renaissance of Australian children's literature, when people like Ivan Southall, Colin Thiele, Lilith Norman and Wrightson were pumping out hugely inspiring stuff.

Catherine Jinks

#6. My wife is a lovely leathery green, the blue-tongued lizard said;
Her eyes are as red as bulldog ants, lurking in holes in her head;
Her body is made of the speckled grass, a violet grows on her tongue,
And I could watch her for fifty years if nobody blundered along.

Douglas Stewart

#7. Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.

Robert Schumann

#8. The ideal holiday for the truly active man is one doing nothing in beautiful surroundings ... and the ideal exercise for this best form of leisure is the old, natural, spontaneous movement of the body
the walk.

Salvador De Madariaga

#9. The Mayans already believed in traveling beyond the Milky Way. Why aren't you yet?

Septem Nuntius

#10. Handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

Augusten Burroughs

#11. Moms can be fresh, fly and young, and that's the kind of mom I want to be.

Ciara

#12. In general,' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language.

Patrick White

#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. I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.

Andrew Eldritch

#15. I'm still shy," I admit, pulling the sleeves over my hands, "and I might always be, I don't know, but I think you can be shy and still feel okay about yourself at the same time.

Megan Jacobson

#16. Aren't we sensitive! We're something special. We're cultured. It's too much for us.

Boris Pasternak

#17. If a bloke gave you a hundred quid for a book you can bet your life it's his way, but if all the poor and suffering people raise their hats to you for writing it - that's different; it makes it worthwhile then.

Alan Marshall

#18. I believe in God. I believe in a higher power. And I do believe that God works in mysterious ways.

Davone Bess

#19. The burning off and the gathering together are one.

Billy Marshall Stoneking

#20. He was hard and tough and wiry - just the sort that won't say die -
There was courage in his quick impatient tread;
And he bore the badge of gameness in his bright and fiery eye,
And the proud and lofty carriage of his head.

A.B. Paterson

#21. I don't believe there is a God", I said fiercely, "and if there is, He's not the merciful being He's always depicted, or He wouldn't be always torturing me for His own amusement.

Miles Franklin

#22. Dr Piper smiled hugely like a big cherub. 'Of course it's wonderful. The whole world is wonderful. Everything is made to fit into its place. And you and Kirsty are the most wonderful of all. Just look at the way you are made.

Colin Thiele

#23. Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do.

Shonda Rhimes

#24. We would learn as much as we could, be as honourable as we could, be as courageous as we could, and be as happy as we could.

S.L. Mills

#25. None of the seven is really good, for the excellent reason that Australian children never are.

Ethel Turner

#26. I don't believe any scientific field to be superior to another.

Abhijit Naskar

#27. When we create an environment where our spirit is in sync with the Divine Spirit, then we should be on the lookout for good, positive, helpful thoughts and ideas from a source beyond ourselves. p23.

David Brazzeal

#28. I'm not good with blogs and social networks because those things come and go. By the time I am used to one thing, a new type of social media is already trending.

Tao Okamoto

#29. And the bush hath friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him
In the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars,
And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended,
And at night the wond'rous glory of the everlasting stars.

A.B. Paterson

#30. A magpie can be happy or sad: sometimes so happy that he sits on a high, high gum tree and rolls the sunrise around in his throat like beads of pink sunlight; and sometimes so sad that you would expect the tears to drip off his beak.
This magpie was like that.

Colin Thiele