Quotes by Australian Authors - Page 2

My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to you get out there and make them happen.
Susan Powter
If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia-I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.
Nellie Melba
A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck. ... [Breasts] are not parts of a person but lures slung around her neck to be kneaded and twisted like magic putty or mumbled and mouthed like lolly ices.
Germaine Greer
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
Colleen McCullough
Most of life is routine-dull and grubby but routine is the mountain that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
Ben Nicholas
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Sister Elizabeth Kenny
Youth troubles over eternity age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.
Dame Mary Gilmore
Rivers and rocks and trees have always been talking to us but we've forgotten how to listen.
Michael Roads
Here we stand between two eternities of darkness. What are we to do with this glory while it is still ours?
Gilbert Murray
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
Clive James
Those who lose dreaming are lost.
Australian Aboriginal proverb
Hypocrite - mouth one way belly 'nother way.
Australian Aboriginal proverb
Wonder ... music heard in the heart is voiceless.
Rosemary Dobson
When I was young I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. I was right.
Graham Wilson
If we're not growing we must feel guilty because we are not fulfilling Christ's demand.
Eva Burrows
It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.
Miles Franklin
If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
Ben Nicholas
I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.
General Sir John Monash
Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.
Joseph Jacobs
My mother used to say "He who angers you conquers you."
Elizabeth Kenny
In family life love is the oil that eases friction the cement that binds closer together and the music that brings harmony.
Eva Burrows
One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.
Nellie Melba
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
Michael Leunig
Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.
Christina Stead
Do you know the difference between a kayak and a college student? A kayak tips.
Chad Morgan
I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.
Patrick White
I started smoking to lose weight. After I dropped that lung I felt pretty good.
Michael Meehan
You will suffer and you will hurt. You will have joy and you will have peace.
Alison Cheek
Time has told me less than I need to know.
Gwen Harwood
Liberty of conscience (when people have consciences) is rightly considered the most indispensable of liberties.
Haddon Chambers
The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops.
Sir Robert Helpmann
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
Clive James
When you looked out my window you could see the whole city crouched under a blanket of car smog.
Markus Zusak
The page we have in our colouring book may appear to have a similar outline but we all vary in the way we fill in the space. Diversity keeps us interesting.Celebrate your differences.
Truth Devour
Imagine a hundred million people clicking polls and typing in their favorite TV shows and products and political leanings, day after day. It’s the biggest data profile ever. And it’s voluntary. That’s the funny part. People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they’ll spend all day telling you who they are.
Max Barry
Wolves are social. They need their pack.
Justine Larbalestier
It’s that I no longer know where I am. I seem to move around perfectly easily among people, to have perfectly normal relations with them. Is it possible, I ask myself, that all of them are participants in a crime of stupefying proportions? Am I fantasizing it all? I must be mad! Yet every day I see the evidences. The very people I suspect produce the evidence, exhibit it, offer it to me. Corpses. Fragments of corpses that they have bought for money.It is as if I were to visit friends, and to make some polite remark about the lamp in their living room, and they were to say, “Yes, it’s nice, isn’t it? Polish-Jewish skin it’s made of, we find that’s best, the skins of young Polish-Jewish virgins.” And then I go to the bathroom and the soap wrapper says, “Treblinka – 100% human stereate.” Am I dreaming, I say to myself? What kind of house is
J.M. Coetzee
We wanted a labour force, but human beings came.
Terry Hayes
In a spirit of hope and new beginnings, we linked arms like a couple of kids. Pushing aside sad thoughts, we strode off into our future.
A.B. Shepherd
The universe rewards action.
Sheridan Jobbins
There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed librarians.
Garth Nix
My love let me be your chalice your holy grail of dreams.
Truth Devour
(Brin) 'How good is your lawyer, on a scale of Atticus Finch to Franklin and Bash?
Lisa Henry
Nat is already laughing. We go through this every morning. She tells Nik I own a clown car.I glower at her while I put my foot up onto Nik’s lap and kick the passenger door while turning the ignition.She starts.Works every time.Nik looks like he’s not sure whether to laugh or get the hell out of the car.We’re on our way to work and Nat says, “Nik, turn on the radio.”He shakes his head and replies cynically, “I would but I’m scared the roof might fly off.”Nat and I burst into laughter. We laugh so much we both sob and laugh at the same time.
Belle Aurora
Speaking of shabby looks, we're going to have to give you a haircut soon....WHAT?These feathers are getting messy.LET ME UNDERSTAND THIS CORRECTLY. YOU WISH TO CUT MY MANE?Thunder tigers grow manes?OF COURSE! HOW ELSE WOULD YOU TELL MALES FROM FEMALES?This is a trick question, right?A MANE IS A SIGN A MALE ARASHITORA HAS REACHED MATURITY.Her laughter rang out in his mind.So it's going to be a few more decades growing, then?HMPH. I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW MOST FEMALES FIND IT FETCHING.
Jay Kristoff
He stops and turns to me. “Do you think people would stare if I threw you over my shoulder? Because I really want to do that. Then I can ogle your ass and just run.” The look in his eye is a little manic. For a second, I think he’s going to do it. Then he spies the heavily armed security officer a few feet away. “Excuse me, sir?” he says, and the guard looks at him. “Would it be acceptable to carry my girlfriend like a sack of potatoes in order to get out of here quicker and make sweet love to her?” The guard’s mouth moves, but he resists smiling. “No, sir, that would not be acceptable.” “Piggyback?” “Nope.” “Put her on a trolley?” “No.” “You’re no fun.” “So my wife keeps telling me.
Leisa Rayven
City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.
Melina Marchetta
I know that today, with a full tank, and with Annabel, that it's time to go.
Steven Herrick
There’s no need to apologise, Justine,' he said tautly. 'No need at all.''Good, because I didn’t mean to. It’s a habit with females, that’s all, saying sorry all the time when there’s absolutely no need. . .
Miranda Lee
It's like I am glimpsing the possibility of living in a different way. I wonder whether it would be an easier life - less choked with misunderstandings and disappointment.
Chrissie Perry
Empower your possibility with the power of your promise.
Tony Curl
Now that he was semidressed, I recovered enough to say, “Not really. But I guess if you want me to hold a conversation with you, you should keep your clothes on.”He gestured for me to follow him through the house, and I thought I heard him mutter, “Conversation is so overrated.
Renae Kaye
The capacity for dissociation enables the young child to exercise their innate life-sustaining need for attachment in spite of the fact that principal attachment figures are also principal abusers.
Warwick Middleton
Actually Gabriel’s an archangel,” I corrected. “But otherwise, yes.”“Well, that explains why he’s so hard to impress,” said Xavier flippantly
Alexandra Adornetto
Love you,” Xavier said just before he drifted back to sleep.“Love you more,” I said playfully.“Not a chance,” Xavier said, fully awake now. “I’m bigger, I can contain more love.”“I’m smaller, therefore my love particles are more compressed, which means I can fit more in.”Xavier laughed. “That argument makes no sense. Overruled.”“I’m just basing it on how much I miss you when you’re not around,” I countered.“How can you possibly know how much I miss you?” he said. “Have you got some sort of built-in miss-o-meter that can give us a reading?”“I’m a girl; of course I have a built-in miss-o-meter.
Alexandra Adornetto
I couldn't remember anyone hugging me like that before.
Glenda Millard
Happiness can not be prescribed, postponed or preserved.Relish its unpredictability. Cherish its exclusivity. Accept its brevity. But above all savour its delicious exquisiteness. Do not let it go cold!
Dimity Powell
Well, this is basically the end, so the answers should be in these next few pages. I doubt they will surprise you, but you never know. I don't know how smart or thick you are. You could be Albert Einstein for all I know, or some literary prizewinner, or maybe you're just middle of the road like me.
Markus Zusak
And we all end up where we started
Melina Marchetta
Well, first you have to be very, very funny. I have realized that it is essential for a boy to be funny. Otherwise, what is the point in a boy?
Jaclyn Moriarty