Best 57 quotes in «australian quotes» category

The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

People often presume I'm from whatever country they're from. So Americans presume I'm American and the British presume I'm British. And they're surprised to discover I actually am Australian. And actually some Australians are surprised too.

The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile.

The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.

There's a sense of humor within the Australian culture that prevails when one is in a rather difficult situation.

The only time an Australian ever walks is when his car runs out of petrol.

The suburb was the major element of Australian society.

What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?

I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror – The wide brown land for me!

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

You see someone on the street wearing an outfit and then it's on the cover of a magazine. I love. But, you know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy.

All the best! You are a local legend in a Brisbane and Australia...you probably don't realise just how much...you will get released from that hell hole...you will come home...and discover your 'celebrity status'...which you will probably find nearly as hard to cope with...a different version of hell...anonymity to global fame...what a remarkable journey your life is. Keep safe...head down...this will pass.

Daily we make decisions, sometimes small, sometimes large, that affect our lives. Usually we know the events and people that influence these decisions. However sometimes we have no knowledge, and may never know, of the events and people that change the course of our lives.

For fourteen years Wiliam Walker alias Brown alias Shields alias Swallow alias Waldon alias Todd alias Watson had been a major irritant to British authorities on both sides of the world. To the London police he was an accomplished thief. To the colonial government in Van Diemen's Land, he was a clever and determined escaper; he had stolen one of its vessels and caused much embarrassment by making it back to England not once but twice, one of only a handful of runaways to do so. To these skills of theft and evasion must be added outstanding seamanship, a glib tongue, extraordinary resourcefulness and a capacity for leadership. Among his more admirable attributes his loyalty to his family should also not be forgotten. To the convicts of Macquarie Harbour and Port Arthur he was a living legend, tangible proof that escape from the island prison was possible. By any standards, he was a remarkable man...

I always enjoy French, yet Australian are so fresh, but if you talk about white I prefer German. THAT'S right! Oh, they are all so Divine... A love that's more like libertine. And all that is my taste for wine.

If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us walk together...

There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.

As we'd say Down Under, there's no point pushing shit uphill with a rubber fork on a hot day." "Are these real Australian sayings or do you come up with this stuff yourself?" I said. "It's genetic," Muz said, grinning."We're born with it already in our blood.

(backpacker having conversation with Lizzie the Australian main character) Backpacker: 'What's the drinking age in Australia?' 'eighteen' 'is that enforced' Lizzie thought for a second before answering seriously, 'yes, they make us drink

Hush now, ‘tis time to sleep and dream secrets of long ago.

If he had given away anything else, he would have been charged with indecent exposure.

Melons. The girls. Gazongas. I could rattle off every nickname in the world for my boobs – oops nearly forgot jubblies – but it didn’t change the fact they were small.

Look at the truth from how it stands, not where it comes from. The truth is still the truth no matter whether it is spoken by an Indian, an American, a Chinese, an European, an African or an Australian!

It was too late for the truth – and too soon.

Rick and Scotty, who had heard Australian slang before from Digger Sears, one-time mate of the Tarpon, broke into chuckles. "I'd better translate," Scotty said, "'Lord stone the crows' is just an expression. Oscar Ashe is hard cash. Yakka is hard work. And dinkum oil is gospel truth.

Should I talk to her friends?’ he asked softly, because he had to say something to take his mind away from the feel of her body against his and the rising desire to kiss her. ‘No, don’t,’ she turned her head and her mouth was suddenly tantalisingly close, lips moist and inviting. ‘Jax,’ he murmured. He smoothed hair from her brow. Her eyes met his, wide and surprised. She straightened, moved and his hand slipped from her shoulders. Mistake. Don’t make it again. She didn’t want more than comfort from him. Friends was as far they would go.

The e-reading revolution may have reached our shores this year but it has yet to reckon with Australia's summer holidays. Intense sunlight plays havoc with screens and the sand invades every nook and cranny, so as convenient and sexy as your new iPad may be, the battered paperback, its pages pocked and swollen from contact with briny hands, will likely remain the beach format of choice for a few years yet.

The analysis provides a clear difference between the age and gender of Japanese students in Australia. The difficult management question is “what do these numbers mean”?

...stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them.

There are many things in my life I want to forget. But this I intend to remember.

Then the wind died down and the air grew warm and the flies awoke and started to drone, and they were a constant background hum, like ocean waves, rushing and ebbing and flowing, loud enough to hear through closed windows, and in great numbers, floods of flies, a communal purr, never just a single buzz.

When I returned home soon afterwards, it was with a newly awakened sense of what Australian literature was good for: helping us define ourselves in relation to an Anglo past and American present, for example, or airing the wounds suffered by indigenous Australia, or inhabiting those new frictions that result from our expanding cultural pluralism. Above all, it could teach us to dwell more easily in a landscape that did not accord with the metaphors and myth-kitty that was our northern inheritance.

The rise of the global middle class will pave the way for a new golden age in Australian society.

The very essence of Australia is our lack of sophistication–our refusal to conform to pretension and superficiality. We ought to be upholding our ‘fair-dinkumness’ and all the qualities so well documented in our folklore, the non-conformity of the swagman in Waltzing Matilda whose down to earth motto would I’m sure, have been ‘I’d rather be ignorant and fair dinkum than sophisticated and false’. Of course life has been a fight against ignorance, but the danger has always been that gaining knowledge rarely occurs without an increase in sophistication or falseness.

You mustn't judge Australia by the Australians.

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

Australian weather's amazing! You notice that when you go overseas.

Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.

How is it having more control if there is double the immigration as there would be under an Australian style points system?

By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.

Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It’s become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is. Some would even go as far as to say, ‘marvellous’.

Each Australian is a Ulysses.

I also love Australian movies. I love Muriel's Wedding - I've seen in six times. Baz Luhrmann's best movie is strictly ballroom... without question.

I definitely grew up on a lot of American bands. I didn't really know that there were any decent Australian bands until I was around 20.

I'd won the Australian Open twice, but winning Wimbledon takes something special.

I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.

I'm Australian. I'm assimilated. I was born here - how ocker do I have to be?

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

I have won the Australian, I won the British, all PGA championships, but I haven't won the PGA championship.

In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.