Quotes About Tasmania

#1. We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million - that's a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania.

Bob Brown

#2. Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.

Lara Giddings

#3. I remember something Bran said when we were hiking in Tasmania, about how people believe they see the same river but the water is always different. I am that river.

Lia Riley

#4. In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out.

Richard Flanagan

#5. Logging is an industry driven solely by greed. It prospers with government support and subsidies, and it is accelerating its rate of destruction, so that Tasmania is now the largest hardwood chip exporter in the world.

Richard Flanagan

#6. The number of those identifying as Aborigine in Tasmania rapidly rose in the late 20th century.

Richard Flanagan

#7. I came to Tasmania in search of an elusive species. And I found it. But never in my wildest dreams did I expect to find you. And I believe I found a type of butterfly that exists only in my belly which makes itself known when I think of you.

N.R. Walker

#8. I was born in the small city of Hobart in Tasmania, Australia, in 1948. My parents were family physicians. My grandfather and great grandfather on my mother's side were geologists.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#9. I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts.

Martha Stewart

#10. When I grew up in Tasmania, you thought that London was home. You waited to go to England as soon as you graduated, in my case on a ship bound for London via Genoa.

Christopher Koch

#11. Perhaps the virtue of coming from a place like Tasmania is that you had the great gift of knowing that you were not the centre of things, yet life was no less where you were.

Richard Flanagan

#12. Maatsuyker, the wild island south of Tasmania where it rained most days of the year and the chickens blew into the sea during storms.

M.L. Stedman

#13. I'm able to actually choose places to go which have intrigued me for the last god knows how many years, and Tasmania's always been one of those places.

Robert Plant

#14. The journey is long, the road is dark and frightening, but together we can reach our destination: the Tasmania of which we all dream, where all are welcome and all prosper, made no longer of lies but truth, built not of rich men's hate but our love for our island and for each other.

Richard Flanagan

#15. We want to appeal to everyone and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires. I've got this plan to buy Tasmania you see ...

Angus Young

#16. To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania.

James Cook

#17. I was grotesque to the theatrical pitch, a stage miser, but I was certainly not a physical impossibility

H.G.Wells

#18. The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#19. There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown.

Michael Ritchie

#20. A lie told in the service of truth is virtue.

Brent Weeks

#21. Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.

Payne Stewart

#22. A company attitude is rarely anybody's best.

Catharine Sedgwick

#23. In order to deviate successfully, one has to have at least a passing acquaintance with whatever norm one expects to deviate from.

Frank Zappa

#24. An ongoing challenge for Australia is ensuring equity of access to technology. Since the decline in federal funding, many schools are reverting to bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs and this puts the onus back on families to fund devices.

Susan Mann

#25. Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.

David Byrne

#26. My great-great-grandfather, who made his money in the jute trade, had at one time 600 houses in London, and within three generations, the money was gone.

Saul David

#27. I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER.

Kerry King

#28. Your desires, Whether or not you achieve them Will determine who you become.

Octavia E. Butler

#29. My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

Jon Landau