Quotes About Queensland

#1. Well, something is happening in Queensland that is not happening anywhere else.

Campbell Newman

#2. 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

#3. None of the serious maritime incidents I had to deal with as transport minister off the pristine Queensland or Western Australian coastline involved an Australian flagged and crewed vessel.

Anthony Albanese

#4. Looking back really does make you wonder, but the truth is it doesn't change a thing.

S.A. Tawks

#5. An adventurer has a purpose. Such as finding new lands and valuable treasures. A misadventurer, besides doing it for the hell of it and for a good time, doesn't really have a good purpose.

S.A. Tawks

#6. She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics.

S.A. Tawks

#7. What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.

Campbell Newman

#8. It was as if I was automatically one of them because I smoked.

S.A. Tawks

#9. I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care.

S.A. Tawks

#10. When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

Brenton Thwaites

#11. My parents would never put too much hype into anything. They're very proud of me, but they're Queensland people. They're just glad that I have a job.

Matt Passmore

#12. It wasn't a glorious or grand act of misadventure but it was a start. It wasn't what I should have done but it was what I truly wanted to do.

S.A. Tawks

#13. My newfound motivation had me feeling confident in my ability and I headed to Mackay with a plan.

S.A. Tawks

#14. I'd shown interest, and showing interest in Bali means that the salesman is most likely going to walk away with your money.

S.A. Tawks

#15. There were no snooty commuters at this late hour. They were home snug in their beds where they should be.

S.A. Tawks

#16. The purpose of water is to drink it but we swim in it for the fun of it.

S.A. Tawks

#17. 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

#18. We should all live in central or southwest Queensland in Australia, which is geologically stable. Or Kansas or Nebraska, because it's relatively geologically stable. I am sure there is no emergency plan for Topeka.

Simon Winchester

#19. 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

#20. As academia became my identity, my fascination with firefighters became buried and, seemingly, died.

S.A. Tawks

#21. My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges.

S.A. Tawks

#22. 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

#23. The false hope I filled myself with is fleeing and I'm beginning to feel scared again.

S.A. Tawks

#24. 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

#25. It was odd but I couldn't jump the chasm of missing evidence to the conclusion Todd was making.

S.A. Tawks

#26. Misadventure will always cause someone to be pissed off at you, because they don't know what degree you're willing to go to to satisfy your need for misadventure.

S.A. Tawks

#27. Patience, persistence and hard work lead to success and happiness. Or you can do whatever the hell you want and with a bit or a whole lot of luck you'll stumble onto success and happiness.

S.A. Tawks

#28. 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

#29. My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help.

Kevin Rudd

#30. Acting with confidence, but inside lacking certainty, I'd told her I could.

S.A. Tawks

#31. A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion.

S.A. Tawks

#32. At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland.

S.A. Tawks

#33. 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

#34. People, regardless of political views, matter in this state and in this country and in this world. And, you know, when people attack people's basic rights and livelihoods, I'm concerned about it. And as a citizen of Queensland and nothing else, I've got the right to express my view.

Clive Palmer

#35. A couple from Sydney or Melbourne might leave on the same day for their holiday: the wife might go sun-bathing at Surfers Paradise, in Queensland, the husband ski-ing in the Snowy Mountains. A lucky country.

George Mikes

#36. I'd been exposed to alternate ways of thinking and it seriously affected the way my mother had reared me.

S.A. Tawks

#37. I studied drama at the Queensland University of Technology, which was amazing. I can't speak highly enough of that school.

Brenton Thwaites

#38. Too much negativity can make the strongest structures dilapidate.

S.A. Tawks

#39. It was a start, and a start is all anyone needs to put an end to something.

S.A. Tawks

#40. If there were to be a Labor-Greens government, that would be the end of the Adani mine, that would be the end of coal mining in central Queensland, and that would be the end of their best shot at economic prosperity in the future.

George Brandis

#41. 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

#42. I am standing for NSW Super 12 coaching position. NSW great. Queensland bad.

Damir Dokic

#43. His friend had the capacity to refer to anything from majestic ghost gum forest in the Snowy Mountains to the sticky, dense rainforest of North Queensland as 'Bush'. If it wasn't a desert, a town or a city, then to Gary it was 'the Bush'.

GP Field

#44. 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

#45. I wasn't pissed off; I was just robbed of most of the cocky confidence my cunningness had created.

S.A. Tawks

#46. Maybe I should have given more thought to her thoughts.

S.A. Tawks

#47. 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

#48. Lighting a cigarette with a sense of achievement for company made the journey worth it.

S.A. Tawks

#49. One thing a girl loves more than a bad boy is a self-aware bad boy.

S.A. Tawks

#50. A misadventurer's greatest fear is their mother.

S.A. Tawks

#51. 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

#52. A fight needs at least two fighters. Sometimes you can win straight away by not fighting.

S.A. Tawks

#53. Fun fact: You may hug koalas in the Australian state of New South Wales, but not in Queensland. So ... if you didn't hug your koala nice and tight before you got here to Sydney, you're going to be shit out of luck until we go back to Surfer's Paradise.

Elle Lothlorien

#54. The stretch of Bruce Highway between Gin Gin and Miriam Vale was long and lonesome.

S.A. Tawks

#55. Your days are only important if you decide to make them important.

S.A. Tawks

#56. It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded.

S.A. Tawks

#57. Everyday something unexpected happened. Everyday was exciting. Everyday was a misadventure.

S.A. Tawks

#58. Time is wasted on the young and experience is wasted on the old.

S.A. Tawks

#59. 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

#60. I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.

Grant Bowler

#61. Now comes the hard part. Peyton, Peyton, Peyton. Just say Peyton.

S.A. Tawks

#62. 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

#63. I've got enough money in my life to retire now and do nothing. But I've got a duty and obligation to see if we can create more jobs in this state, and the government's got an obligation to approve projects and to assess them for the benefit of the people of Queensland.

Clive Palmer

#64. Would I come off as a creepy-stalker-kind-of-guy or would it demonstrate that I cared?

S.A. Tawks

#65. 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

#66. The greatest thing that can happen to the state of Queensland and the nation of Australia would be if and when we get rid of the media. Then we would live in peace and tranquility - but no one would know anything!.

Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen

#67. I'd developed an apology-is-much-better-than-asking-for-permission mentality.

S.A. Tawks

#68. Substituting the discount rate for the ever increasing chance of death and a dollar for joy, joy today is worth more than joy tomorrow.

S.A. Tawks

#69. The acceptance of just one person is enough to silence the rejection of thousands.

S.A. Tawks

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. I took her word and didn't let my concern for my future ruin the present moment.

S.A. Tawks

#73. People give up. People settle. People persevere. And you can do all three if you're smart enough.

S.A. Tawks

#74. Being determined delinquents, Peyton and I jumped the barricades and wandered around the dilapidated interior.

S.A. Tawks

#75. So much to do but so many incompetent workers," I said, playing to his take-no-shit-get-in-and-fucking-do-it attitude.

S.A. Tawks

#76. You live by whatever rules you need to govern your life the best you think. Let's just try not to encroach.

S.A. Tawks

#77. This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?

S.A. Tawks

#78. It's called the kindness of a fellow human being. You should try it sometime, ya fuck.

S.A. Tawks

#79. I liked learning but the challenge was that my mother's need to turn education into a competition was ruining the experience for me.

S.A. Tawks

#80. Everyones' worst problems weigh the same, and it's up to you how heavy that weight is and how much you let it drag you down.

S.A. Tawks

#81. I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real.

S.A. Tawks

#82. I found that disturbing the night's calm ambience was almost as gratifying as the ambience itself.

S.A. Tawks

#83. My anger tempted the act of delinquency and it felt good to dabble.

S.A. Tawks

#84. Even freedom needs some rules to keep it from being complete chaos.

S.A. Tawks

#85. Nyree taught me not to trust anyone but Steve quickly corrected that lesson and taught me not to trust everyone.

S.A. Tawks

#86. I'll tell you what you want to hear. I mean, what I need to hear. I'll tell the truth.

S.A. Tawks

#87. Besides the gifts, the only thing that gave the headstones colour were the memories family and friends had of the people they represented.

S.A. Tawks

#88. Other times, when existential crisis mode kicked in, I flirted with the idea of giving up and drifting whichever way gravity and wind moved me.

S.A. Tawks

#89. We smoked the joints down to the roaches and then relaxed beneath the stars to let the drug form dazzling constellations.

S.A. Tawks

#90. I let my initial stance on her prettiness stand and didn't let any superficial thoughts hobble it.

S.A. Tawks

#91. Doesn't she understand that a key factor to learning is the want to learn?

S.A. Tawks

#92. They were queen bitches and it seemed everyone and everything they knew and everyone and everything they didn't know deserved some kind of criticism.

S.A. Tawks

#93. Misadventure was my primary compass and I followed it without caring if I pissed off one person or a whole bunch of people.

S.A. Tawks

#94. After spending the previous night the way I had, I felt I could afford to lose some of the daytime to sleep.

S.A. Tawks

#95. Self-harm appealed to my sadness but I didn't let it coax me.

S.A. Tawks

#96. Most would probably call it a dumb idea, but considering my wants it was a good idea.

S.A. Tawks

#97. They had to be untrustworthy enough to buy a minor alcohol but trustworthy enough to not walk away with my money.

S.A. Tawks

#98. Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.

S.A. Tawks

#99. I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting.

Brenton Thwaites

#100. It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun.

S.A. Tawks