Quotes tagged ‘Australia’

“Fear not because these two Australian lesbians decided to inadvertently pitch a really good one in a bunch of gas stations over this last weekend!”

— Stef Schwartz, autostraddle.com

“Musician Lizzo has taken a break from her gigs in Australia to lend a helping hand as the country’s worst bushfire crisis continues.”

— HuffPost Australia, huffpost.com

“Many Australians are furious with their government’s resistance to acknowledge the role of climate change in the brushfires, which experts say are now burning hotter, longer, and more ferociously due to rising global temperatures.”

— Bridget Read, The Cut, thecut.com

“Mom, Dad, just so you don't hear any wild rumors, I'm being indicted for fraud in Australia.”

— Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein, Bart Simpson, Nancy Cartwright, imdb.com

“Samantha Winslow: My husband Roger used to go on these ridiculous safaris for weeks at a time. He wanted to be John Huston but, actually, he was more like Woody Allen. Roger used to tell this story of a man from Australia who was famous for killing lions and a lion from Kenya who was famous for kill…”

— Ann Biderman, David Hollander, Ray Donovan, Liev Schreiber, imdb.com

“When I left England for the first time in 1871 much of the world had already been colonised by Britain: Australia in 1770; India in 1757, and Canada in 1763. South Africa, however, was only partly controlled by Britain, and I saw this as a place where I might become as famous as Captain Cook, Robert…”

— Cecil Rhodes, amazon.com

“Maybe the dingo ate your baby.”

— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Elaine Benes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, imdb.com

“The way to acknowledge that you've just spoken to another human being, about just about anything, in Australia, is to say "No worries, mate." I'm trying to take it to heart. I wonder whether it means Australia has fewer clinical psychologists than the US, or more...”

— Doug Frank, facebook.com

“Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is one of the most famous World Heritage Sites on the planet.Yet you won’t read about the Great Barrier Reef in the U.N. climate report, after the Australian government demanded all mentions of the reef be scrubbed, for fear that tourism would suffer.Record-breaking ho…”

— Ryan Koronowski, thinkprogress.org