Australia quotes

Explore famous quotes about Australia from iconic figures in history and popular culture. Discover the beauty and spirit of the Land Down Under.

My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.

- Kylie Minogue

I have never been unfaithful to a partner and would find it immoral to be involved with a married man.

- Kylie Minogue

Hindsight is illuminating but not always what we want to see.

- Kylie Minogue

Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently.

- James Wolfensohn

Terrorists oppose nations such as the United States and Australia not because of what we have done but because of who we are and because of the values that we hold in common.

- John Howard

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

- Michael Hutchence

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

- Craig Johnston

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

- James Wolfensohn

So now what happens is the cameras follow me around and capture exactly what I've been doing since I was a boy. Only now we have a team of, you know, like 73 of us, and it's gone beyond that.

- Steve Irwin

We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 % of its shares and a controlling interest to British Airways.

- Pauline Hanson

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

- Diane Cilento

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

- Kylie Minogue

We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us.

- Steve Irwin

I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.

- John Newcombe

It's something I've always loved doing. I'm not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I'm there every second of every day. That's my hands-on situation.

- Keith Urban

Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.

- Michael Hutchence

Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along.

- Steve Irwin

I've always been a little shy about taking my clothes off, but I don't worry about it any more.

- Kylie Minogue

At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.

- Diane Cilento

Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

- Michael Hutchence