Australia Quotes · Page 59

The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I think it took us all by surprise. I mean, I knew that people in New Zealand would like [Hunt for the…

— Sam Neill

I had been reading a lot about pioneers in Australia and the colonization of Australia, and pioneers in Virginia and the early…

— Ben Richards

If I'm everybody's hero from Canada all the way down to Australia, but I'm not able to come home? Then I failed.

— Goldlink

There's a level of ease that comes with working in Australia that can be missed working in other places.

— Luke Hemsworth

I've been voted one of Australia's 50 national treasures. I've even had my face on an Australian stamp - the only non-Australian…

— Russell Crowe

I put a bushfire out. It was one of the most incredible things, terrifying. We get them a lot in Australia.

— Alex O'Loughlin

Even in Australia, where I've had success, I never assumed that people would follow me because of who I am.

— Angelos Postecoglou

I went to a lot of different high schools. I had quite a sporadic schooling experience. I went to school in England…

— Alice Englert

I, as prime minister, never went to Washington. Certainly never went to a presidential ranch. I hate to say this, but I…

— David Lange

“Rabaul was a catastrophe entirely of Australia's own making. There were no extenuating circumstances in the form of foreign commands softening the…

— Michael Veitch

Extreme weather like the droughts in Russia, China and Brazil and the flooding in Pakistan and Australia [in 2010] have contributed to…

— John Beddington

Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a…

— Gustav Nossal

My point is this, the Government made this decision to ban totally beef exports into Indonesia, even to compliant abattoirs and this…

— Julie Bishop

In Australia in the '70s, there was a real embrace of different genres. And then George Miller did 'Mad Max' by the…

— John Hillcoat

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

— Rick Springfield

A points-based system like Australia has zero Islamic racial immigration.

— Milo Yiannopoulos

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in…

— Germaine Greer

I was living in a four-story Manhattan townhouse with three full-time servants and silver to be polished, and I was doing too…

— Orson Bean

I actually did try to emigrate to Australia a long time ago.

— Rick Nielsen

I think Australians are rightly suspicious of people who will try and use religion for another end. I don't think that's right…

— Peter Costello

I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have…

— Winston Churchill

I was rejected by every agent in Australia when I was starting out. No one would represent me, because I didn't fit…

— Tim Minchin

I'm out there arguing the Labor case. I will do it anywhere and everywhere that I can. I do it within various…

— Kevin Rudd

It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard.

— Douglas Mawson