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Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation. — Jan Morris

The cultification of an imperialist invasion of a foreign nation that Australia had no quarrel with is against all ideals of modern society. — Scott McIntyre

That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia. — Herman Melville

I let my initial stance on her prettiness stand and didn't let any superficial thoughts hobble it. — S.A. Tawks

Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic. — S.A. Tawks

After going to Australia, it's hard to go anywhere after that. I want to move there. I'm obsessed with it. — Nina Dobrev

Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret. — Charles Darwin

Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway. — Baz Luhrmann

Australia is really a lot like Texas if Texas were mad at you and drunk and maybe had a knife. — Jenny Lawson

We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy. — Kevin Rudd

In my view, helping to feed a hungry world is Australia's greatest responsibility and opportunity in the 21st century. — Anthony Pratt

We need to act now. Otherwise the biodiversity that makes Australia so wonderfully unique is going to be lost to us forever. — Kristy Hinze

Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world. — Steve Irwin

It's always a fine line. If you overdo (aggression) it's 'ugly Australians', but if you have a smile on your face it's Australia being too nice. — Brett Lee

A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor. — Kevin Rudd

When an Italian marries a Greek, you get the union of two lots of people who believe themselves to be the creators of modern civilization — Joe Novella

The stretch of Bruce Highway between Gin Gin and Miriam Vale was long and lonesome. — S.A. Tawks

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience. — Kevin Rudd

I still have my agent back in Australia keeping an eye on things there, and we are trying to find the right job which will bring me home to shoot. — Margot Robbie

Building a new Health and Hospitals Network is fundamental to building a stronger and fairer Australia. — Kevin Rudd

The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty. — Tony Abbott

One of the reasons why Australia and Canada have support for migration is because they control the numbers. — Michael Gove

Per capita, I would say that Australia has more biomimetic projects going than many other countries I've been to. — Janine Benyus

I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo. — Bindi Irwin

Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict. — Tony Abbott

The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill. — George Mikes

It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia. — Richard Flanagan

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society. — Tony Abbott

I felt like a toilet frog during the last three decades of the preceding century. (38) — Frans De Waal

Has anything happened in Australia since the eighties? I mean, besides Nemo being reunited with his dad? — Wayne Gladstone

Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society. — Barry O'Farrell

I'm so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia. — Hugo Weaving

I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care. — S.A. Tawks

I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some — Errol Flynn

The false hope I filled myself with is fleeing and I'm beginning to feel scared again. — S.A. Tawks

I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection. — D.H. Lawrence

Way of life in Australia focuses more on the outdoors. — Thomas Muster

Misadventure was my primary compass and I followed it without caring if I pissed off one person or a whole bunch of people. — S.A. Tawks

Leave at night and you reach Australia next morning. But it took 28 years for an Indian PM to come to Australia! — Narendra Modi

It's a very open-armed experience in Australia - you feel immediately welcomed - I felt being here for three months - honoured, delighted, proud. — Tom Parker Bowles

Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much. — Brian Schmidt

Australia will always be closer to the U.S. than she is to China because our values and political traditions are much closer. — John Howard

I was brought up in a Christian home in Australia with a father who was very bold about his faith. — Ken Ham

My old ways were much more appealing than my new ways. — S.A. Tawks

I loved Australia. I was very successful there. — Todd Barry

I found myself drawn to the remote Kimberley region of Australia - in the far Northwest corner of the country - our last frontier. — Brendan Fletcher

Australia is much more liberal in accepting de facto relationships than the U.S. — Gillian Armstrong

To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely. — Peter Carey

I'd like to visit my friend and his family who live in Australia. That trip is long overdue. — Kenneth Choi

Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves. — S.A. Tawks

A fight needs at least two fighters. Sometimes you can win straight away by not fighting. — S.A. Tawks

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest. — Bill Gates

I'd like to set a story in Australia, but I would need to feel confident my German and U.S. readers, for example, would stay with me. — Michael Robotham

Australia smelt of apples. Ripe, green, crisp apples. A smell so sharp and sweet it made my teeth tingle. — Andrea Levy

It doesn't take much to get a high profile in Australia. — Terry Hayes

I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards. — S.A. Tawks

Australia is so entrenched in rock n'roll and bands, and that's just the way Australia is. — Ricki-Lee Coulter

I want faith; but I am faithless — Errol Flynn

So the convict establishment, born of poverty and hatred, gave birth to wealth and hope. — Keith Sinclair

I have memories of Australia that I'll just never ever get over — Mariah Carey

I want to see a connected and progressive future for Australia, where we harness our greatest natural resources: sun, wind, and brain power. — Cate Blanchett

I'm 33 ... before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll. — Bon Scott

I found that disturbing the night's calm ambience was almost as gratifying as the ambience itself. — S.A. Tawks

She suggested I buy her a drink. I shouldn't have, but I was quite drunk and she was quite pretty. — S.A. Tawks

You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else. — Barry Gibb

If there is one venue where Pakistan can beat Australia, then Adelaide is that ground — Imran Khan

I made publicity contracts with Nike, several broadcasting companies and airline companies within Australia. — Cathy Freeman

And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture. — Marc Newson

When a new baby is expected mother has 9 months to prepare the family and the kitchen for her departure! — Nursing Mothers' Association Of Australia

Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile. — Hideki Tojo

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back. — Thomas Keneally

This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right now. — Barack Obama

It was as if I was automatically one of them because I smoked. — S.A. Tawks

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

I kind of left everyone behind in Australia - all my friends and my family and I had to break up with my boyfriend. — Margot Robbie

A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf — Harold Larwood

Being an American in Australia isn't easy,
but I'm trying to integrate, I'm trying to fit in. — Billy Marshall Stoneking

Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it. — Walter Hill

The purpose of water is to drink it but we swim in it for the fun of it. — S.A. Tawks

As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan. — Prince Royce

The junior high I attended also required students to change classrooms for each subject, which was unlike Australia — Nick Vujicic

They named me Kristin after some whale scientist in Australia, worked on the original translation team. — Richard K. Morgan

On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund. — Malcolm Turnbull

Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy. — Robin Boyd

We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole family loves the place. — Fiona McIntosh

The acceptance of just one person is enough to silence the rejection of thousands. — S.A. Tawks

This gentleman here, Michael Hussey, is just an absolute freak. — Michael Clarke

Do the people in Australia call the rest of the world 'Up Over'? — Steven Wright

I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States. — Helen Reddy

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth. — James D'arcy

People give up. People settle. People persevere. And you can do all three if you're smart enough. — S.A. Tawks

None of the seven is really good, for the excellent reason that Australian children never are. — Ethel Turner

I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa. — Dianna Agron

At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland. — S.A. Tawks

There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe. — Rachel Ward

Let me give you a little Mendelsohn 101: I came up in television in the early- to mid- 1980s in Australia. — Ben Mendelsohn

My long-term plans are just to get as much experience as I can in Australia and try to make my own films. — Brenton Thwaites

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

Mates such as they must stand by one another — Mary Grant Bruce

Nyree taught me not to trust anyone but Steve quickly corrected that lesson and taught me not to trust everyone. — S.A. Tawks