Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Australian Authors - Page 2

I have a vintage bohemian style of decor with a lot of candles, and second hand furniture and my crystals and my books and plants.

People were making fun of redheads before I came along.

What I like is finding new angles on genres.

There's always the temptation, as a cinematographer, to make the shot look as perfect as possible.

As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other people do it.

I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.

People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.

You can look in the mirror and find a million things wrong with yourself. Or you can look in the mirror and think, 'I feel good, I have my health, and I'm so blessed.' That's the way I choose to look at it.

And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may be an engineer or a diplomat or a doctor. Or she may be an unbelievable babe with bleached hair down to her waist.

Clothes have memories, and sometimes you don't want to remember. People remember where they bought the clothes, who gave them, or where they stole them from.

I'm not a fan of small talk but if you want to get into the big questions of life - your deepest regret, your greatest joy - then we're going to have a great chat.

Climate change is crap.

I've got to try and create the best life I can for my baby and my family, so yeah, that motivates me.

I do quite naughty things now. I do like to be a bit sexy.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?

Sometimes I have a nervous breakdown over my suitcase - over socks - because your brain just goes, 'I just can't pack again. I can't.' You're looking at your suitcase going, 'I'm in five countries in two weeks, and it's four different seasons.' That's when my brain melts.

I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.

Once electricity and petrol and facilities and food stop, society stops. It's crazy.

Misinformation is a virus unto itself. And Fox News is the vector.

I always play barefoot. I can't play with shoes on.

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

Obviously, I'm going to go out there and want to win. Don't get me wrong. But I'm not going to not have fun or not enjoy myself at the same time.

One of the inevitable aspects of debates about euthanasia is the reluctance on the part of advocates to confront the essence of what they propose.

I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and I really know who I am now. There was a long period like I was drifting or floating through life, and now I feel like I have a definitive target - and future.

I love that way dance music can put you in a trance.

I've only actively promoted what we always hope is good science.

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

Tourism will always survive here in Queensland.

Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.

You could go out and give a million dollars to a charity tomorrow to help the homeless. You could argue that it is just wasted. They are not putting anything back into the community.

I find the whole idea of religion overwhelming and frightening and not for me.

I always thought I was a good person, a decent person. I never harassed anyone or touched anyone. And you say to yourself , 'Oh, that's good enough,' but yes, I had certain jokes that I always assumed the audience would understand. This is Persona.

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.

I don't think patience is something that any of us grow up with in a large dose. It's a world of instant gratification.

I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.

One of my best memories is with a really good group of people in the Canberra Youth Theatre. We did a play about the seven deadly sins, and we had to dress up in costume and perform in Garema Place like the drama freaks we were. Great fun.

If I could choose any car in the world, I'd get a Lamborghini, but I think that's a bit too much money. I'll start off with maybe a V8 or something.

No one is perfect, and no one should be made to feel like they have to be perfect. It's nice that we all have unique qualities that make us different as athletes and humans. That's why it's so important to surround yourself with people who truly care about you.

Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.

It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.

Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.

Only by developing a deeper understanding of AI systems as they act in the world can we ensure that this new infrastructure never turns toxic.

Never say no to anything, whatever the universe brings me. I've always lived by that.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

It's such a thrill walking onto a film set.

My mum, Jennie Buckman, was a north London Jew who, with my dad, proudly chose to raise me and my two brothers in Hackney.

If you work hard and enjoy what you are doing and go after your dreams anything is possible.

Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.

I was never very good at school with... humanities... anything which was more a matter of opinion.

I'm a good guy, and I'm a pretty good drummer, by the way.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

I always had long hair. When you lose it, you realise just how important it is to your identity.

You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a sense that you need to keep some of the unknown because that's where the soul resides, or something.

I like playing the villain.

I love retouching images on Photoshop.

If you really are passionate about it, you're just going to find a way to make it happen.

Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.

I don't get involved in politics. I think that it is a waste of time and money because very often a politician cannot do much, and if you give him money, you embarrass him, so he can't do anything.