Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Australian Authors - Page 15

London represents the idea that someone pulled away the set from my life and replaced it with another. 'Here is your new baby. Here is your new life. And now you do comedy.' Without being smug, it's the best fun.

Chocolate is one of those flavors that's very likeable, very loveable, very versatile.

I'm proud to partner with organizations that place an emphasis on and share my interest in giving back to the community. RBC has a rich history of doing this through their sponsorship of golf and the extensive ambassadorial program they have in place.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

We all need to stand together and be a part of creating the future we hope to see.

The best wrestling characters are an extension of your real-life personality, and I've always been a bit of an attention seeker.

I have brought many artifacts back with me from the steppe. My favourite is a 90-year-old Kazakh saddle decorated with silverwork in traditional motifs. It symbolises the deep relationship between man and horse on the Eurasian Steppe.

At some point, I came out to a lot of friends and some family, but then I went back in the closet when I started working as an actor in America.

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

I have a word quota I try to fulfill every day, and I try to do that in the morning and into the afternoon and then go out with friends at night. I love singing and have lessons and enjoy drama, and so I am involved in that.

To me I grew up watching 'All That Jazz' and 'Cabaret,' and when I was younger 'Mary Poppins',' The Sound Of Music,' and 'Singin' In The Rain.'

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.

The beauty of my journey is that it's always been pretty unpredictable, so stay tuned.

I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

I'll be honest when I tell you, Max Holloway is the hardest matchup out of everyone in our division. By far. And I was happy to take him back to back.

I've seen sharks in the ocean, it hasn't made me get out of the ocean; that's for sure.

I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

The millionaires and billionaires who chose to invest in Australia are actually those who most help the poor and our young. This secret needs to be spread widely.

When someone has found not just another person they can live with but a person they can't live without, they should have an equal right to the true qualities of a bond that runs deeper than any law.

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.

I'm an atheist, so I don't believe in a heaven or afterlife. I believe that once I die, that's it.

My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.

But to me, to be original is to be yourself.

Volleyball was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.

I love Davis Cup. I respect it from my heart.

I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.

I think that women out there should just be happy with how they look, and they shouldn't really try to conform to any stereotype. Just be happy and, hopefully, healthy.

I remember being at Greenblatt's on Sunset, and some guy just walked straight up to me, and he had some bling on and whatever, and said something about a party down in Malibu and asked if I would jump in his car and go to the party. All I could think was, 'Who are you? I don't know you, and I don't care about how good your car is.'

People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.'

Only 10 per cent of food grown in India is processed. So the best way to reduce food waste and maximise calorie delivery is to increase that ratio of processed food to total food.

I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.

My connections and roots to this land of Australia - the sea, the reefs, the sky, the stars - come from a time and place that existed long before basketball was invented, and definitely long before the Boomers program was created.

It's like being in a trance, like I get this electric current through my fingertips. Sometimes I shake. People say I look like Hendrix when I'm about to rip a solo because I move my shoulders like he does and do the chewing.

I think 'pop' can be a bit of a dirty word. People are very cool in Australia. They don't like to admit that they like pop. There are people who listen to Triple J and cool stuff like that, but commercial radio is massive, and if you look at the sales of the pop songs every week, people love pop music.

There is a reason why the cultures of Indigenous Australia inspire such fascination. And that is that they represent a unique way of thinking about the world. A vision that over tens of thousands of years has risen out of the land, the power, the very being of our continent, Australia.

When I started I was pretty well the only Aboriginal player who was playing tournaments.

But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.

Passion is a quality I admire in a woman.

I've always been a very outdoors sort of girl. I'm more a tomboy than a girly girl.

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

I don't mind being in studios, and I don't mind being out in nature. They're two different ways of making movies.

Tupac was actually pro-choice, which is fantastic. Of course, those moments in rap are few and far between.

I love being put into situations which are competitive and tough and challenging.

Health is a precious gift. You realise more and more as you get older just how precious a gift it is.

To be given a lead role in something as cool and fresh and crazy as 'Spartacus' was a real thrill. That had a lot to do with the evolution of my ambition as well.

I've always tried to retain that childlike wonder.

Me, I love a steak.

I am very clean, not exactly a neat freak, and creative.

Whenever I had been racially vilified before it had been by peers or drunk men. It's more shocking when it's a 13-year-old child. No 13-year-old is racist.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

Steven Adler and I played football in the street when we were 12. I remember rehearsing in my bedroom with my first band, and some kid climbed over the fence of my backyard and peeked his head in the window to see who was rocking. It was Slash.

I'm a very traditional person. The tattoos are about my grandmother dying and they tell the story about my mother and father, my brothers and my sister, my kids. It's pretty much a family tree on my arm with my life in football too.

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

I want every person in New South Wales, no matter where they live, to feel that they have the choices and the opportunities to be their best.

I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.