Quotes by Australian/Australia authors (page 2)

"Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes"

Wilfred Burchett, Journalist

"I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder"

Hugh Jackman, Actor

"They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone is gay. I personally don't believe in doing huge lawsuits about that stuff. Tom does. That's what he wants to do, that's what he's going to do. You do not tell Tom what to do. He is a force to be reckoned with"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small"

Helen Reddy, Actress

"It's very hard to step into a job when people are just dismissing you as a pretty face, and saying you got your job only because your surname is McMahon"

Julian McMahon, Actor

"I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I've been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you're down to give you a kick"

John Hewson, Politician

"In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks"

Malcolm Fraser, Politician

"I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies"

Bob Hawke, Statesman

"In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed"

Luke Ford, Writer

"We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time"

Daniel Johns, Musician

"It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia"

Henry Lawson, Writer

"I like poking my nose into other people's lives"

Helen Garner, Novelist

"I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian"

Edmund Barton, Politician

"Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love"

Andy Gibb, Musician

"You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed"

Betty Cuthbert, Athlete

"Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior"

Charles Sturt, Explorer

"Fiction is life with the dull bits left out"

Clive James, Author

"Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right"

Clive James, Author

"A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all"

Clive James, Author

"She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short"

Clive James, Author

"Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail"

Clive James, Author

"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world"

Clive James, Author

"Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire"

Clive James, Author

"Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed"

Craig Bruce

"When you talk to yourself, at least you know that someone is listening"

Craig Bruce

"When shooting in the dark, it is a good idea to use a machine gun"

Craig Bruce

"Think Tank, noun: The shower"

Craig Bruce

"Supermarket automatic doors open for me; therefore, I am"

Craig Bruce

"If the shoe fits, it is probably worn out"

Craig Bruce

"Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade"

Craig Bruce

"When trying to locate something, search your mind first"

Craig Bruce

"Live every day as if it is your last, and you'll be correct sooner than you otherwise would be"

Craig Bruce

"It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult"

Craig Bruce

"It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow"

Craig Bruce

"When you are finished with it, put it back in the first place that you looked for it"

Craig Bruce

"Something is always simple until you try it"

Craig Bruce

"Now is the time for all good men to run like hell"

Craig Bruce

"Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea"

Craig Bruce

"It's funny how most activists are pacifists"

Craig Bruce

"I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!'"

Craig Bruce

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