Melbourne University Quotes & Sayings

My niece is - her name is Sasha, is currently learning Russian at Melbourne University and I look forward to the day when I can talk to her about Pushkin. — Clive James

I did a lot of work on energy efficiency at the White House. By the time I left we had taken the equivalent of six hundred cars a year off the road in reduced greenhouse gas emissions just in the White House complex. — William J. Clinton

I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I'd planned to go to university to study French, but I was offered a contract to write and record an album that was too good to pass up. Looking back now I think that was pretty young but, at the time, I was ready to have an adventure. — Kimbra

People who do surf the Internet for fun at work - within a reasonable limit of less than 20 percent of their total time in the office - are more productive by about 9 percent than those who don't," according to Dr. Brent Coker, from the department of management and marketing at the University of Melbourne, Australia. — Erik Qualman

All through university years, I used to come up to Melbourne, go to Pizza Napoli with my friends and then to a movie. — Isobelle Carmody

He looked like an angel. And all I wanted to do was put my fist through his jaw. I couldn't stand my own cruelty. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

And once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind — David Nicholls

Some people try to deal with money by pretending it doesn't matter, but financial pressure is something that affects us all every day of our lives. — Tony Robbins

The criminals at the North make us sell our wheat and cotton to Europe at cheap prices, but will not permit us to buy our manufactures cheaply from England. No, they pass a high tariff, keep out cheap European products and force us to buy from Massachusetts and New York at extremely high prices. — James A. Michener

Words at night were feral things. — Joy Williams

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple. — Aaron Copland

Mr. Cruse, how high would you like to fly?"
A smile soared across my face.
"As high as I possibly can. — Kenneth Oppel