Australia Quotes
611 Australia quotes by 369 unique authors
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
— Olivia Wilde
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There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-lined course in America or the sand…
— Tiger Woods
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I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it came as a…
— Colm Toibin
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I think I'll move to Australia.
— Judith Viorst
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Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome,…
— Douglas Adams
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It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete…
— Bill Bryson
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Do the people in Australia call the rest of the world 'Up Over'?
— Steven Wright
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Families are like countries. They have their own language and jokes and secrets and assumptions about the right and wrong ways of doing things, and…
— Roland Merullo
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Besides my professional goals, I have a couple of private ones, my man. One of those is to pet a kangaroo before I leave Australia.…
— Jennifer Rardin
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Some days are like that. Even in Australia.
— Judith Viorst
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No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic; capturing small insects and injecting them with enough poison to drop a horse would…
— Bill Bryson
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„Ma'am?“ She glanced up at me, pushing her glasses up her nose as she did. “Hmm? Oh, I remember you. Miss Melbourne.“ “Melrose,“ I corrected.…
— Richelle Mead
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I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My family was nonplussed…
— Anna Funder
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Valkyrie walked to the back door, which hadn't been closed properly, shut it and locked it. There was now a baby in the house, after…
— Derek Landy
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Money is to Everything as an Aeroplane is to Australia. The aeroplane isn't Australia, but it remains the only practical way we know of reaching…
— Stephen Fry
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Whoever authorized the evolution of the spiders of Australia should be summarily dragged out into the street and shot.
— Mira Grant
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Some sad news from Australia... the inventor of the boomerang grenade died today.
— Johnny Carson
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On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia…
— Henry Lawson
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My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in…
— Barry Humphries
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My father's vision was to see the Pilbara developed in a way that would benefit his beloved north, and West Australia and he wanted to…
— Gina Rinehart
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I think England will win a Test. My concern is Australia will probably win two.
— Geoffrey Boycott
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Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.
— Brian Schmidt
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There was a band in Australia named Midnight Oil, and they were a very, very political, and they literally hit you over the head with…
— Meat Loaf
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The only thing to be said for air travel is speed. It makes possible travel on a scale unimaginable before our present age. Between the…
— Paul Johnson
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When I graduated from high school, I had artistic and academic scholarships, and I was trying to figure out what to do. I decided to…
— Deborah Kara Unger
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