Australian Quotes · Page 5

If I am wrong and you are right then the democratic process of the Australian community will vindicate you and condemn me.

— John Howard

I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.

— Paul Keating

I think that Americans find the Australian humour and the energy of Australians very refreshing - we are quite self-deprecating, we're light-hearted…

— Teresa Palmer

If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be…

— Arthur Boyd

It's an absolute honour and privilege to get out there and be an Australian headlining an Australian card. That's unreal; it really…

— Robert Whittaker

I'm not sure it's affection for Australian or New Zealand films or not. I think it's just that there's something about 'Wilderpeople'…

— Sam Neill

No one cares about the Davis Cup. How many people know I won five Davis Cups and seven majors, but that I…

— John McEnroe

There's been an instant desire to try to take some of the rhetoric that has done so well for Mr. Trump and…

— Richard Glover

I used to have 30 different species of tarantulas, as well as two Australian scorpions that are considered the deadliest in the…

— Jonathan Davis

My mom's a children's television writer, so I was involved and around from a very young age. When I was eight, I…

— Alycia Debnam-Carey

More ubiquitous mobile technologies have led to a significant shift from desktops and laptops to the use of mobile tablets. Australian schools…

— Susan Mann

I celebrated my 18th birthday in Japan, which was quite memorable; I was quite fascinated by the different traditions and the culture;…

— Miranda Kerr

I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has…

— Quentin Bryce

If you're a single Sheila and you're trying to find an Australian bloke, you duck off down there to Australia. You go…

— Nick Cummins

My father was Australian.

— Jamey Sheridan

Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My…

— Tom Hooper

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

— Joey Santiago

I must say that when I first learned of the existence of the Australian Greenhouse Office, I assumed it was responsible for…

— Nick Minchin

I don't know that many Australian actors in Los Angeles, but there are a few of us. I mean, we kind of…

— Xavier Samuel

I'm a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian.

— Steve Irwin

And there are also languages that divide nouns into much more specific genders. The African language Supyire from Mali has five genders:…

— Guy Deutscher

I spend more time with Whisper than I do with anybody else. I chose her when she was three or four days…

— Dean Potter

The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central…

— Hal Porter

Modern novels have become part of the do-it-yourself business, and they come in a very small number of standard kits. (...) In…

— David Pryce-Jones

I'm obviously coming out of the Australian summer with amazing momentum, knowing I can pretty much hang in there with anybody and…

— Sloane Stephens