Australian Colloquial Quotes & Sayings

I guess I define myself as a mother, a wife, kind of a nutty person. A good person. — Meredith Vieira

The Fates but only spin the coarser clue; The finest of the wool is left for you. — John Dryden

Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves. — J.G. Ballard

You do not install quality; you begin to work at it. — W. Edwards Deming

Maybe the memory does play tricks. Increasingly, I'm thinking, 'What was their name? I knew that name yesterday.' I think that's what happens. At some point, I'll forget that I ever worked with Peter Cook, I suppose, and Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller. — Dudley Moore

Most Americans stopped looking at what was happening through a variety of coping mechanisms - starting with women entering paid work and then everyone working longer hours and using their homes for raising equity and generating more money through debt. The typical household basically staved off the day of reckoning. — Robert Reich

Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. — Eckhart Tolle

The doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient. — William Osler

Belonging is a deep genetic drive. More and more, Cassie felt it. Safe and comfortable with the Madison House residents, her membership in the wider community was extending, weaving itself into the layers of her life. p213 — Christine M. Knight

Interfering in the worldly life is impure action (ashuddha vyavahar). — Dada Bhagwan

When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress. — Mercedes McCambridge