Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Australian Authors - Page 4

Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I'll have a character eating an orange, and next thing I'm Googling types of oranges, I'm visiting chat rooms about oranges, I'm learning the history of the orange.

As a young boy growing up it was my dream to play for Australia and to pull on the famous green and gold shirt to represent my country. To have been given the opportunity to not only fulfil that dream, but to have done it 79 times, and many of which as captain, makes me incredibly proud and thankful.

I will never shave off my beard and moustache. I did once, for charity, but my wife said, 'Good grief, how awful, you look like an American car with all the chrome removed.'

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

Producing clean energy from non-recyclable waste is an important part of my future vision for family company Visy Australia.

Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.

You have to learn every single day, and try not to make the same mistakes. That's my mentality.

I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.

Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics.

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

I wanted to transmit what it feels like to be on the so-called IVF emotional rollercoaster, and I guess I wanted to offer a shared aloneness to anyone who's desperately longed for a child.

The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me.

I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

There is a separation - a very clear separation - between the judiciary, the legal system, and the political system in this country, and that's why Labor has a problem with the issue of mandatory sentencing as a principle.

At the end of the day, we all look in the mirror and tend to see our own self-perceived flaws.

As long as I'm enjoying swimming, I will keep swimming.

The future will either be green or not at all.

I wanted to write a song about war and that classic 'We want you' recruitment style from the point of view of the recruiter.

This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.

Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the 'slippery slope': once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.

For me, life is about experience and being a good person.

With Spotify, I think people are discovering a lot of artists they might not discover otherwise.

Sometimes I need people around me to remind me, to keep enjoying the small things.

The good thing with 'Insidious' and 'The Further' is that it's so nebulous, this supernatural world, that it allows you to bend things. There's a lot of room, it's very malleable, like how in the second film we had a lot of time travel.

I got caught up in all the party things and I guess I'd say my head was above the clouds.

Although technology has enhanced our lives in many ways, it has also ensured the erosion of imagination.

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

The '60s are my favorite decade - with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair.

Most employers see breaks in employment as a blemish on a resume. In the case of military spouses, however, it's due to their frequent moves.

I want to see the free movement of our ambos being able to get to and from where they need to be, I need our firies out fighting fires, and I need our police out doing their job as well.

I'll always say this: my name is Patrick Mills, I'm a Kokatha man from South Australia, and I'm a Naghiralgal and Dauareb-Meriam man of the Torres Strait Islands.

When I am really into a woman, the way I look at other women changes. The other women on the planet kind of fade away. And the majority of my energy goes to that person.

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

I think that most things, if you want to use them properly, take quite a lot of time and I don't necessarily have the patience to sit down and read the instructions and follow the first bits to actually get the starting point.

We talk about that a lot: how, when you're under pressure, it brings out the best and the worst in people.

I grew up a competitive swimmer. I wanted to go the Olympics. Both my parents were professional swimmers. I competed internationally quite often, right up until I moved to California to pursue music.

No fighter wants to risk getting ring rust.

I super strongly identify with marginalized communities. I'm not at all religious, but I feel super, super Jewish. I can't even describe the feeling, but it actually feels really similar to being gay, the kind of kinship that you feel with the LGBTQ people. That same sense of community is there with Judaism.

Copywriting probably did make me a commercial writer. Nobody wants to read advertising copy, so you have to keep it punchy; you almost have trick them into reading it. You have to make every sentence work.

So many times I wanted to go to Auschwitz, but I couldn't take up the courage to go there.

I'm very conscious that I have to, as Premier of this state, make sure we spend taxpayers' money wisely.

Social media, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter - I steer away from them. They're alienating us socially as well as bringing us together.

It's important to find a balance between Pokemon and training.

I think WWE is very much entertainment, and obviously Ring of Honor is too, but i think you see a little more wrestling in Ring of Honor.

Obviously, I did not start my Test career too well. With the bat, I was probably not quite ready to play at that stage. I was happy to go back to first-class system and learn my game a bit more, honing my skills, particularly my defence and patience.

I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull syndrome' - we fly in, scratch around and fly out.

Acting is something I love.

It is known that wildfires behave unpredictably - this is fundamental - but it is my experience that humans in the presence of wildfire are also likely to behave in aberrant and unpredictable ways.

I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.

Every user of the river down here understands that a healthy river is absolutely vital for a healthy economy and a healthy tourism industry.

My signature dish is seafood lasagne - massive king prawns, smoked haddock, cod and a white sauce.

It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It has never been easier to get away with telling lies. It has never been easier to get away with the glib one liner.

We will decide who comes to our country.

In Sydney, we always have a deficiency of housing. So that's one good thing, which will cause real estate to keep going up. Not fast, but it'll go up.