#australia

Do the people in Australia call the rest of the world 'Up Over'? ↗

— Steven Wright

#humor

If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand. ↗

— Jonathan Aitken

#bet #fair #find #glass #hand

There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat. ↗

— Nick Park

#australian #films #like #offbeat #psyche

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#australia #commuting #england #had #i

Mates such as they must stand by one another ↗

— Mary Grant Bruce

#billabong #friendship #inspirational #love #loyalty

That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It can set them up for a couple of months which at that level you really do need that kind of help. It sounds like a lot of money, but when you're travelling the world trying to make it as a tennis player, it doesn't last long. ↗

— Samantha Stosur

#couple #draw #get #help #huge

By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#bad #because #bottom #down #end

It doesn't really seem any different anywhere. I'd say it seems like we're biggest in Australia. It's just that we've always been this underground band and for some reason in the last month has been starting to go overground. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#any #anywhere #australia #band #been

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#angeles #attack #australia #bubonic #continent

It's odd, that's why I don't like telling people I played field hockey. It's real big in Australia for guys. But I say I played in America, and everybody goes, 'Oh, you girl!' ↗

— Heath Ledger

#australia #big #everybody #field #girl