Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Australian Authors - Page 16

If you are good enough to play international cricket, you can take wickets - but you have to bowl the right length.

I love '60s styles.

I hope that maybe I am on this planet to try and spread a bit of love and affection and to try and help people to warm toward their fellow man instead of all this destruction and misery.

We must take every game as serious as we can, no complacency, that's the main thing.

I like how they are. I think they're great. And their communities are communities. I have a greater sense of community in New York than almost anywhere I've ever lived. Really, it's terrific.

Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

For me, I guess the main motivation is the satisfaction of finally understanding some tricky mathematical concept or phenomenon and then explaining it to others.

If I'm in work mode and going to meetings, I'll make an effort and dress up, but when I'm at home or just chilling, I'm in beanies and jeans and sneakers.

An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.

Religion is such a path with people.

I think Sydney has so much natural beauty; it's just a beautiful city.

I'd like to offer my knowledge and experience. Hopefully that will put the club in a better place. It's no guarantee but I've done well in the past and I'm still determined to keep doing that.

People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary - it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.

The media these days are not so much interested in saying things truthfully without distortion, without misrepresentation, without ridicule.

I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

It's weird: I don't see myself as a tough guy.

My ears are too big.

I'm not one of those actors who asks for too many favours. So when I do, people tend to listen.

My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.

Many dinosaurs were smaller than chickens.

For much of the latter part of the 20th century, Australia seemed to be opening up to something large and good. It believed itself a generous country, the land of the 'fair go.'

New Orleans is awake all night, and every night is a party.

Girls, they just have something that guys don't have. They've got this patience and this motherly thing, we just don't have that same patience as men.

I love just being in Canberra and being with my family, being with my friends.

With 'Horror Story', it really was, 'You're going to run; you're going to jump off this cliff, and trust that that Ryan Murphy is going to catch you.' So I just ran head-on into it and jumped off the edge of that cliff.

There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

Let me make it very clear. There are no taxpayer funds going to the Adani mine.

I'm pedantic about lip balm. I've been chomping through Lip Smackers since age 11. So the lip balm called Lips! is a personal favourite. I also really love the Properly Clean cleanser. Women are wearing primer, sunscreen and makeup, so a cleanser needs to work hard these days.

I have many moments of self doubt. Everybody does.

Every time I step out on court, I leave 150 per cent out there. That's the bare minimum.

I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.

I think it's really important to live in the moment.

The day I write a totally happy song... I'll retire.

The agricultural revolution transformed the earth and changed the fate of humanity. It produced an entirely new mode of subsistence, which remains the foundation of the global economy to this day.

Open-water swimming scares the hell out of me.

It's unfortunate when I see brands spending a lot of time and money on creating online content that hardly anyone watches.

I love zombie films like Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' - I thought it was so brilliantly done and so grounded in reality. I was definitely thrust into the zombie world watching that film.

I fire very little because I try to be very careful when I select people. If you know how to select, you don't fire often.

I spent so long and so much of my childhood holding myself back for fear of what people would think. I'm trying my best every day to throw that away.

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

I'm thankful I have my faith.

I've been listening to a lot of music by Arca.

I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.

My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.

It's just so hard growing up: you go through things, especially acting - I go to a different set every couple of months, and you meet an entirely new group of people that are around you 24/7. It's not an easy situation to go into when you're a shy person.

The benefits of having robots could vastly outweigh the problems.

Contrary to some self-serving reports, I am okay and strong. I have not hit rock bottom.

America? They had a good girl singer, Janis Joplin.

I think that gay men in particular need to just listen to bisexual people and believe them when they say they're attracted to different genders.

As we've lost this idea of pilgrimage, we've lost this idea of human beings walking for a very, very long time. It does change you.

I did 'Quigley Down Under,' which is quite deliberately placed in Australia, which is a Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman, Laura San Giacomo film from '88, I want to say.

I don't want anyone to stand in my way of creating jobs.

French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

I've certainly had some difficult days. But it's OK to be vulnerable.

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.