quotes about Australia Day

“I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.”

“Just keep going like crazy and look back when it's over. Otherwise you just get confused.”

“Some people believe in God. I believe in music. Some people pray. I turn up the radio.”

“Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.”

“I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.”

“In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!”

“I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out. I get blamed, while con-artist kids like Venus, and Camille, and Gemma get believed. But the rescue lady noticed. In the background, just observing, she noticed.”

“Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words.”

Source : Song: Ghetto Prisioners, Album: I Am..., 1999

“Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.”

“This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.”