Kakadu C Quotes & Sayings

Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine wiping out helpless millions. Americans had to be taught to hate and fear an unseen enemy. The teachers were men in official positions, in government, men whom Americans normally trust without question. — Martha Gellhorn

You cannot outwalk your problems. Can never run fast enough to evade them completely. — Alyson Noel

Sadly, today there are only a few remaining speakers of kakadu or gagadju. The work, then, is concerned with my feelings about this place, its landscape, its change of seasons, its dry season and its wet, its cycle of life and death the melodic material in Kakadu, as in much of my recent music, was suggested by the contours and rhythms of Aboriginal chant. — Peter Sculthorpe

And from that time on I bathed in the Poem
Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk,
Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam,
A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down. — Arthur Rimbaud

They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command
But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young. — Arthur C. Clarke

Man is more powerful than matter. — Benjamin Disraeli

I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face. — Angelina Jolie

I certainly was not the romantic lead. I couldn't be that, because I was not that good looking. And that is something about Hollywood that I do not like at all. Why can't a woman who is just normally good looking fall in love? I mean, everybody in the movies is so good looking. — Elaine Stritch

For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural wonders - the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, our rainforests - are now at risk. — Kevin Rudd

I grew up partially in Switzerland but mostly in Australia. I lived in Kakadu for a short time - it's an Aboriginal community. My best friend growing up was Aboriginal. She taught me so much. — Isabel Lucas

I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them — Mark Haddon

Patch's eyes made a slow assessment of me, sharpening to vivid black. "I'm going to have a hard time sending you off with Scott in that dress. Just a heads-up: If you come home and the dress looks even slightly tampered with, I will track Scott down, and when I find him, it won't be pretty."
"I'll relay the message."
"If you tell me where he's hiding, I'll relay it myself."
I had to work not to smile. "Something tells me your message would be a lot more direct."
"Let's just say he'd get the point. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Marriage, friends, is a lifelong feast; love is no light lunch. — Garrison Keillor

Sometimes I think I like you," Gus said. "And then you talk or breathe or exist and I'm not so sure. — T.J. Klune

It's a very long and difficult schedule on a single-camera show. — Martha Plimpton

This is the place where I learned to live this life, to curse this life, and to claim this life for my very own. — Jodie Foster

My prevailing interest has been in the world as a whole, and in the place of a person in a larger setting than one defined by national boundaries. — John Hersey

Love must master good and evil. — Paulo Coelho