Top 100 Quotes About Brisbane
#1. I broke in swiftly. "How kind of you to renew your offer, your Grace. But I am afraid I must decline. Brisbane is the man for me.
Deanna Raybourn
#2. I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.
David Malouf
#3. Brisbane is so sleepy, so slatternly, so sprawlingly unlovely ... It is simply the most ordinary place in the world ... It was so shabby and makeshift ... a place where poetry could never occur.
David Malouf
#4. It is madness," Brisbane said, and he laughed until tears gathered in his eyes. "It may be madness, but it is an entirely March Christmas," I told him. "And do not forget, this is only half the family. The rest will be here for Twelfth Night." But that is a tale for another time.
Deanna Raybourn
#5. Brisbane and I passed a thoroughly satisfactory and entirely private evening in the solitude of our room. "Thank God for stout stone walls," he said at one point, and I heartily agreed.
Deanna Raybourn
#6. Are you going to say anything?"
Brisbane crossed one leg lazily over the other flicking an imaginary piece of lint from his trousers. "I think he is doing quite well without me."
"I did not mean for you to help him I meant for you to defend me," I said huffing slightly in my indignation.
Deanna Raybourn
#7. To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor.
Deanna Raybourn
#8. My non American viewers. Who understand that the world does not consist solely of a single nation sailing across an infinite sea of migrant workers. Will no doubt have heard that the waters surrounding Brisbane got tired of waiting for people to hit the beach and decided to bring the party to us.
Yahtzee Croshaw
#9. I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a long way from the publishing industry then. Nowhere's a long way from the publishing industry now.
Nick Earls
#10. Did you mean what you said? You will pursue this?'
Brisbane sipped at his tea. 'I suppose. I have a few other matters that I must bring to conclusion, but nothing that cannot wait. And I have no other clients questioning either my integrity or my courage at present.
Deanna Raybourn
#11. They have different accents in America " Brisbane smiled. "Just as we do here." I waved a hand. "They all sound alike to me.
Deanna Raybourn
#12. My brother Gary, who was my coach, five years my elder, studied human movements at Queensland University in Brisbane. We used to train together every day, and we'd train for so long that at the end of a session, we would physically almost collapse.
Matthew Hayden
#13. He poured out the wine and took a deep draught of it, then loosened his neckcloth, an act of dinner table impropriety that would have affronted most other wives, but which I strongly encouraged. Brisbane had a very handsome throat.
Deanna Raybourn
#14. I grew up in suburban Brisbane, so to say you wanted to be an actor was a ridiculous concept.
Matt Passmore
#15. I saw my first gig here actually (Festival Hall in Brisbane) Duran Duran.
Bernard Fanning
#16. I think it's very, very important that people outside the capital cities, not just Sydney and Melbourne but also Brisbane Perth Adelaide and so on, have the greatest access to the best cultural experiences they can in both the performing arts and the visual arts.
George Brandis
#17. Some people clean the fridge to avoid studying. I go to Brisbane.
Melina Marchetta
#19. People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.
Geoffrey Rush
#20. At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs.
Robyn Davidson
#21. Come on," Cole said. He looked back over his shoulder at Mr. Brisbane, who was looking at me with a complicated expression as I left. Cole pointed at him and said, "You're a son of a bitch. He belongs here more than you do.
Maggie Stiefvater
#22. Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life. While the man who is destined to success is the man who makes time live by making it useful.
Arthur Brisbane
#23. The best experiences can't be forced and they come when you least expect it. You don't find misadventure, it finds you.
S.A. Tawks
#24. Looking back really does make you wonder, but the truth is it doesn't change a thing.
S.A. Tawks
#25. Or even tell me it's because you could not live without The Boy's stunning Boyfruits for another night ...
Sam's face was twisted into a weird shape at the mention of his Boyfruits.
Maggie Stiefvater
#26. I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to hers Sam, Linger
Maggie Stiefvater
#27. She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics.
S.A. Tawks
#28. Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.
Arthur Brisbane
#29. It was as if I was automatically one of them because I smoked.
S.A. Tawks
#30. I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care.
S.A. Tawks
#31. The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.
Arthur Brisbane
#32. You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things
useful things.
Deanna Raybourn
#33. It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.
Maggie Stiefvater
#34. Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.
Arthur Brisbane
#35. My newfound motivation had me feeling confident in my ability and I headed to Mackay with a plan.
S.A. Tawks
#36. You look like a puppy. Like I'm jingling my keys and you're jumping by the door waiting for your walk"
"Woof.
Maggie Stiefvater
#37. The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.
Arthur Brisbane
#38. There were no snooty commuters at this late hour. They were home snug in their beds where they should be.
S.A. Tawks
#39. A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
Arthur Brisbane
#40. The purpose of water is to drink it but we swim in it for the fun of it.
S.A. Tawks
#41. If I hadn't worked up the courage to talk to Christy, she most likely would have been a pretty face that disappeared back into the crowd.
S.A. Tawks
#42. Do you feel better?" I asked Sam as he opened the door to the Volkswagen for me.
"Yes," he said. He was still a terrible liar.
"Good," I said. I was still a fantastic one.
Maggie Stiefvater
#43. If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on.
S.A. Tawks
#44. Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.
Arthur Brisbane
#45. My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges.
S.A. Tawks
#46. I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.
S.A. Tawks
#47. The false hope I filled myself with is fleeing and I'm beginning to feel scared again.
S.A. Tawks
#48. I realised I got anxious because my true aspiration wasn't to become the chief of a multi-billion dollar, multi-national company that created widgets or some shit.
S.A. Tawks
#49. It was odd but I couldn't jump the chasm of missing evidence to the conclusion Todd was making.
S.A. Tawks
#50. He was the captain of the rugby team and he was built like a fucking gorilla. He had the personality of a fucking gorilla, too.
S.A. Tawks
#53. Wine is the most noble and beneficial of alcoholic drinks. Wine is for the sedentary whose work is thinking. Natural wines have been used without drunkenness by the millions of human beings for ages. They supply with iron, tannin and vitamins.
Arthur Brisbane
#54. Acting with confidence, but inside lacking certainty, I'd told her I could.
S.A. Tawks
#55. If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
Arthur Brisbane
#56. At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland.
S.A. Tawks
#57. What does that quote mean to you? Can you explain the concept behind it and not just repeat the pretty phrase to me?
S.A. Tawks
#58. And leaving you (there aren't words to untangle it)
Your life, fearful and immense and blossoming,
so that, sometimes frustrated, and sometimes understanding,
Your life is sometimes a stone in you, and then, a star.
Maggie Stiefvater
#59. To Grace, these were the things that mattered: my hands on her cheeks, my lips on her mouth. The fleeting touches that meant I loved her.
Maggie Stiefvater
#60. Too much negativity can make the strongest structures dilapidate.
S.A. Tawks
#61. It was a start, and a start is all anyone needs to put an end to something.
S.A. Tawks
#62. Every minute that you save by making it useful, more profitable, is so much added to your life and its possibilities. Every minute lost is a neglected by-product - once gone, you will never get it back.
Arthur Brisbane
#63. But now I think he was trying to teach me to never feel entitled because life can be a cruel bitch at times.
S.A. Tawks
#64. One thousand ways to say good-bye
One thousands ways to cry
One thousand ways to hang your hat before you go outside
I say good-bye good-bye good-bye
I shout it out so loud
Cause the next time that I find my voice I might not remember how.
Maggie Stiefvater
#65. A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.
Arthur Brisbane
#66. Sam: "You - you greatly overestimate my self-control."
Grace: "I'm not looking for self-control.
Maggie Stiefvater
#67. [St. Patrick] was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along the ground or the more dangerous snake that oppresses men through false teachings. And he drove the snakes out of the minds of men, snakes of superstition and brutality and cruelty.
Arthur Brisbane
#68. The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.
Arthur Brisbane
#69. It's easy to give up at the beginning of something, but after gaining a bit of momentum it's not as tempting or easy to just give up.
S.A. Tawks
#70. I wasn't pissed off; I was just robbed of most of the cocky confidence my cunningness had created.
S.A. Tawks
#71. Maybe I should have given more thought to her thoughts.
S.A. Tawks
#72. I think the last thing you should do to someone willing to put your penis in their mouth is give them criticism.
S.A. Tawks
#73. Lighting a cigarette with a sense of achievement for company made the journey worth it.
S.A. Tawks
#74. A misadventurer's greatest fear is their mother.
S.A. Tawks
#75. Sam reached his hand toward mine and I automatically put my fingers in his. With a guilty little smile he pulled my hand toward his nose and took a sniff and then another one. His smile widened though it was still shy. It was absolutely adorable and my breath got caught somewhere in my throat.
Maggie Stiefvater
#76. A fight needs at least two fighters. Sometimes you can win straight away by not fighting.
S.A. Tawks
#77. I wasn't sure if I was charmed by his reluctance to share a bed with a girl or insulted that, apparently, I wasn't hot enough for him to charge the mattress like a bull.
Maggie Stiefvater
#78. The stretch of Bruce Highway between Gin Gin and Miriam Vale was long and lonesome.
S.A. Tawks
#79. Your days are only important if you decide to make them important.
S.A. Tawks
#80. Grace," I said, very softly. "Say something."
Sam," she said, and I crushed her to me.
Maggie Stiefvater
#81. It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded.
S.A. Tawks
#82. Everyday something unexpected happened. Everyday was exciting. Everyday was a misadventure.
S.A. Tawks
#83. Time is wasted on the young and experience is wasted on the old.
S.A. Tawks
#84. It was my duty as a mother to invade your privacy and search your room. I'm just glad you weren't hiding an illegal drug.
S.A. Tawks
#85. Now comes the hard part. Peyton, Peyton, Peyton. Just say Peyton.
S.A. Tawks
#86. What does a guy say to that? What does an inexperienced guy say to a beautiful, smart, proper girl who's not supposed to say things like that?
S.A. Tawks
#87. Would I come off as a creepy-stalker-kind-of-guy or would it demonstrate that I cared?
S.A. Tawks
#88. That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.
Arthur Brisbane
#89. While the fool is enjoying the little he has, I will hunt for more. The way to hunt for more is to utilize your odd moments ... the man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life.
Arthur Brisbane
#90. I didn't appreciate the moment as much as I should have while living it, but I can attribute that to my poor emotional state and hindsight.
S.A. Tawks
#91. Counter Girl (in candy shop): You two are cute. Seriously. How long have you been going out?
Sam: Six years.
Maggie Stiefvater
#92. I'd developed an apology-is-much-better-than-asking-for-permission mentality.
S.A. Tawks
#93. The acceptance of just one person is enough to silence the rejection of thousands.
S.A. Tawks
#95. Maybe if you allowed me to blow off some steam, I wouldn't have been so frustrated when I had to find higher order fucking derivatives.
S.A. Tawks
#96. In a world of differing opinions, mentally unstable people and complete psychopaths, it was the type of simplistic notion that some people wouldn't want to follow or ignorance would just simply not allow them to understand.
S.A. Tawks
#97. I took her word and didn't let my concern for my future ruin the present moment.
S.A. Tawks
#98. People give up. People settle. People persevere. And you can do all three if you're smart enough.
S.A. Tawks
#99. Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.
Arthur Brisbane
#100. Being determined delinquents, Peyton and I jumped the barricades and wandered around the dilapidated interior.
S.A. Tawks
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