Australia Quotes - page 17

Australia is my lens. I cannot see the world any other way. (Peter Carey)
I woke up in Australia almost every day for the first 47 years of my life. When I left, I didn't discard that, didn't reject that, didn't forget that. Not even New York City can wipe that out. View quote
Peter Carey
I shouldn't dream of wasting my time by picking holes in the attitude of the Italian prelates throughout the war for Ethiopia. Thanks to the mustard-gas sprinklers that are used in Australia for destroying rodents, Fascist aviation has been enabled to strip whole populations of hapless negroes of their skin, so that they lay rotting in heaps in front of their huts. It makes no difference to me if the Italian prelates affirm that a war like this seems chivalrous to them. I believe that I know what is chivalrous and what is not... View quote
Georges Bernanos
We used to have a view that to really be a good Australian, to love Australia, you almost had to cut your links with the country of origin. But I don't think that was right and it never was right. View quote
Malcolm Fraser
Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey! View quote
Henry Rollins
I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn't use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once - an honor. View quote
Henry Rollins
There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand. View quote
Henry Rollins
There are such "social values" today in Europe, America and Australia only because during those thousand years, the Christians of Europe possessed the warlike power to do what the Christians of Asia and Africa had failed to do - that is, to beat back the Moslem invader. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
I've been to Australia a couple of times, but never to the north or the centre. I would love to see Ayers Rock. View quote
Anthony Stewart Head
Roger: That was our tenth Warped Tour, it's out of control, we've played six full Warped Tours and partial Warped Tours, Australia Warped Tour, European Warped Tour, bits and pieces of US Warped Tours. We're like those hookers that have been around so long that they don't even have pimps anymore. Actually it's really organized, we hadn't been on it in three years, the whole thing, and it seems really on, not only the bands and stuff but the crew has done it so many times that they didn't screw anything up. View quote
Roger Manganelli
As I understand it, the benefits of multiculturalism are that the sterile white-bread cultures of Britain, Canada and Australia get some great ethnic restaurants and a Commonwealth Games opening ceremony that lasts until two in the morning. But in the case of those Muslim ghettoes - in Sydney, in Oslo, in Paris, Copenhagen and Manchester - multiculturalism means that the worst attributes of Muslim culture - the subjugation of women - combine with the worst attributes of Western culture - licence and self-gratification. Tattoed, pierced Pakistani skinhead gangs swaggering down the streets of Northern England are as much a product of multiculturalism as the turban-wearing Sikh Mountie in the vice-regal escort at Rideau Hall. Yet even in the face of the crudest assaults on its most cherished causes - women's rights and gay rights - the political elite turns squeamishly away. (Mark Steyn)
Roger: I think the best show is every night. I don't know every night we pretty much have the best show. We don't really have bad shows. The only thing that would contribute to a bad show is if nobody showed up. But, people do show up - so I can't really say. We did this tour in Australia and it was like a.. we were playing way out in Perth - you know, like in the middle of nowhere, the most remote city on the planet! But, we had a day off before that, so our booking agent got us to play at this tiny, tiny town north of Perth. It was a tiny club show, tiny PA, no baracade, like less then 200 kids and it was completely insaine! It was awesome! And then the next night we were playing in Perth and it was like 700 kids but the show just wasn't as awesome, you know? So it doesn't really ever matter where it is. I don't know. It wasn't a bad show! (laughs) View quote
Roger Manganelli
Roger: We will be hanging out for an extended amount of time in Europe. From November 1st until the end of our lives, it's a very long tour. We're playing the Fest on Halloween, which is my birthday in Florida – in Gainesville. We're playing the Fest, my other band, Rehasher, is playing the Fest and we're just going to be taking a little bit of time to breathe in January and probably be out on the road again pretty soon in the states. We're doing some international stuff Australia, Japan, South America – that's going on but nothing going on in the states quite yet. View quote
Roger Manganelli
One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors. View quote
Gabe Newell
Once people come to Australia, they join the team. View quote
Tony Abbott
I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia. View quote
Tony Abbott
I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society. View quote
Tony Abbott
I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels. View quote
Tony Abbott
Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed. View quote
Tony Abbott
My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure. View quote
Tony Abbott
I was over in Australia during Easter, which was really interesting. You know, they celebrate Easter the exact same way we do, commemorating the death and resurrection of Jesus by telling our children that a giant bunny rabbit ... left chocolate eggs in the night. Now ... I wonder why we're fucked up as a race. I've read the Bible. I can't find the word "bunny" or "chocolate" anywhere in the fucking book. (Bill Hicks)
I had had a lot of experience in bringing the Internet to Australia, and I saw that knowledge in the hands of people achieves reform. View quote
Julian Assange
I, as prime minister, never went to Washington. Certainly never went to a presidential ranch. I hate to say this, but I wasn't going to be the pilot fish to the shark, whereas Australia quite happily bobbed along like a happy little pilot fish with a shark who was a messy eater, and I just couldn't feel like that. View quote
David Lange
Don't you stupid Aussies get it? Australia is doomed! View quote
Fred Phelps
Don't you stupid Aussies get it? Australia is doomed! Nothing, and nobody, can help you. You have sinned willfully after you have received knowledge of the truth. View quote
Fred Phelps