Quotes & Sayings About Queensland

It's called the kindness of a fellow human being. You should try it sometime, ya fuck. — S.A. Tawks

I'd developed an apology-is-much-better-than-asking-for-permission mentality. — S.A. Tawks

Lighting a cigarette with a sense of achievement for company made the journey worth it. — S.A. Tawks

If I hadn't worked up the courage to talk to Christy, she most likely would have been a pretty face that disappeared back into the crowd. — S.A. Tawks

Besides the gifts, the only thing that gave the headstones colour were the memories family and friends had of the people they represented. — S.A. Tawks

Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves. — S.A. Tawks

I've got enough money in my life to retire now and do nothing. But I've got a duty and obligation to see if we can create more jobs in this state, and the government's got an obligation to approve projects and to assess them for the benefit of the people of Queensland. — Clive Palmer

The best experiences can't be forced and they come when you least expect it. You don't find misadventure, it finds you. — S.A. Tawks

My parents would never put too much hype into anything. They're very proud of me, but they're Queensland people. They're just glad that I have a job. — Matt Passmore

We smoked the joints down to the roaches and then relaxed beneath the stars to let the drug form dazzling constellations. — S.A. Tawks

I didn't appreciate the moment as much as I should have while living it, but I can attribute that to my poor emotional state and hindsight. — S.A. Tawks

What does a guy say to that? What does an inexperienced guy say to a beautiful, smart, proper girl who's not supposed to say things like that? — S.A. Tawks

Maybe I should have given more thought to her thoughts. — S.A. Tawks

Most would probably call it a dumb idea, but considering my wants it was a good idea. — S.A. Tawks

My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges. — S.A. Tawks

At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland. — S.A. Tawks

People give up. People settle. People persevere. And you can do all three if you're smart enough. — S.A. Tawks

I would say to the people of Queensland, and to all listeners around the country, is that if you want stable government in the next term of parliament, it's not just enough to reelect the [Malcolm] Turnbull government. It's also important to elect a senate which will be able to deal with the important reforms, with the important legislation, in a way in which the senate in the last parliament was unable to deal with. — George Brandis

He was the captain of the rugby team and he was built like a fucking gorilla. He had the personality of a fucking gorilla, too. — S.A. Tawks

It's easy to give up at the beginning of something, but after gaining a bit of momentum it's not as tempting or easy to just give up. — S.A. Tawks

My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help. — Kevin Rudd

Two best friends traveled from the Burdekin in North Queensland sometime in the 1960s and walked into the Union and fell in love with Grace. Tom finch was the smarter talker of the two and won first round, marrying her before his name came up in the lottery sending him to Vietnam on a tour of duty. He never returned. The heartbroken, patient one, Bill Mackee, grieved a best friend and married the love of his life, adopting the twins when they were four years old. — Melina Marchetta

Well, something is happening in Queensland that is not happening anywhere else. — Campbell Newman

I found that disturbing the night's calm ambience was almost as gratifying as the ambience itself. — S.A. Tawks

Self-harm appealed to my sadness but I didn't let it coax me. — S.A. Tawks

It was my duty as a mother to invade your privacy and search your room. I'm just glad you weren't hiding an illegal drug. — S.A. Tawks

A fight needs at least two fighters. Sometimes you can win straight away by not fighting. — S.A. Tawks

I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting. — Brenton Thwaites

So much to do but so many incompetent workers," I said, playing to his take-no-shit-get-in-and-fucking-do-it attitude. — S.A. Tawks

Substituting the discount rate for the ever increasing chance of death and a dollar for joy, joy today is worth more than joy tomorrow. — S.A. Tawks

Would I come off as a creepy-stalker-kind-of-guy or would it demonstrate that I cared? — S.A. Tawks

What does that quote mean to you? Can you explain the concept behind it and not just repeat the pretty phrase to me? — S.A. Tawks

It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun. — S.A. Tawks

After spending the previous night the way I had, I felt I could afford to lose some of the daytime to sleep. — S.A. Tawks

If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on. — S.A. Tawks

The false hope I filled myself with is fleeing and I'm beginning to feel scared again. — S.A. Tawks

It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded. — S.A. Tawks

I'd shown interest, and showing interest in Bali means that the salesman is most likely going to walk away with your money. — S.A. Tawks

It wasn't a glorious or grand act of misadventure but it was a start. It wasn't what I should have done but it was what I truly wanted to do. — S.A. Tawks

Everyones' worst problems weigh the same, and it's up to you how heavy that weight is and how much you let it drag you down. — S.A. Tawks

They were queen bitches and it seemed everyone and everything they knew and everyone and everything they didn't know deserved some kind of criticism. — S.A. Tawks

I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards. — S.A. Tawks

One thing a girl loves more than a bad boy is a self-aware bad boy. — S.A. Tawks

Maybe if you allowed me to blow off some steam, I wouldn't have been so frustrated when I had to find higher order fucking derivatives. — S.A. Tawks

My brother Gary, who was my coach, five years my elder, studied human movements at Queensland University in Brisbane. We used to train together every day, and we'd train for so long that at the end of a session, we would physically almost collapse. — Matthew Hayden

An adventurer has a purpose. Such as finding new lands and valuable treasures. A misadventurer, besides doing it for the hell of it and for a good time, doesn't really have a good purpose. — S.A. Tawks

What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked. — Campbell Newman

Misadventure asked what the harm was partaking in one more and I decided not to argue with her. — S.A. Tawks

I took her word and didn't let my concern for my future ruin the present moment. — S.A. Tawks

Remember ... this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on planet Earth. Arctic sea ice is near all-time record lows. Record floods from Pakistan to Queensland to the Mississippi basin; record drought from the steppes of Russia to the plains of Texas ... This is what climate change looks like in its early stages. — Bill McKibben

I wasn't pissed off; I was just robbed of most of the cocky confidence my cunningness had created. — S.A. Tawks

Misadventure will always cause someone to be pissed off at you, because they don't know what degree you're willing to go to to satisfy your need for misadventure. — S.A. Tawks

Time is wasted on the young and experience is wasted on the old. — S.A. Tawks

Looking back really does make you wonder, but the truth is it doesn't change a thing. — S.A. Tawks

It was a start, and a start is all anyone needs to put an end to something. — S.A. Tawks

I'd been exposed to alternate ways of thinking and it seriously affected the way my mother had reared me. — S.A. Tawks

The purpose of water is to drink it but we swim in it for the fun of it. — S.A. Tawks

I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed. — Grant Bowler

Nyree taught me not to trust anyone but Steve quickly corrected that lesson and taught me not to trust everyone. — S.A. Tawks

Even freedom needs some rules to keep it from being complete chaos. — S.A. Tawks

My newfound motivation had me feeling confident in my ability and I headed to Mackay with a plan. — S.A. Tawks

There were no snooty commuters at this late hour. They were home snug in their beds where they should be. — S.A. Tawks

None of the serious maritime incidents I had to deal with as transport minister off the pristine Queensland or Western Australian coastline involved an Australian flagged and crewed vessel. — Anthony Albanese

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real. — S.A. Tawks

When I was 7, I went to school in Switzerland because everyone on my mom's side of the family lives there. Then we were back in Australia, in Queensland. That's where we had the chance to have lots of different animals. I spent a lot of time living in nature and building cubby houses in big old trees by the ocean. — Isabel Lucas

I realised I got anxious because my true aspiration wasn't to become the chief of a multi-billion dollar, multi-national company that created widgets or some shit. — S.A. Tawks

I'll tell you what you want to hear. I mean, what I need to hear. I'll tell the truth. — S.A. Tawks

Ruddock was the only person in the party held accountable for the failures that had almost removed Abbott and Credlin after less than eighteen months in office. According to Queensland MP Andrew Laming, 'It was like the farmer shooting the sheep dog because he left the gate open and the sheep ran out. — Aaron Patrick

Where's your sense of misadventure? — S.A. Tawks

I let my initial stance on her prettiness stand and didn't let any superficial thoughts hobble it. — S.A. Tawks

My anger tempted the act of delinquency and it felt good to dabble. — S.A. Tawks

When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.' — Brenton Thwaites

Acting with confidence, but inside lacking certainty, I'd told her I could. — S.A. Tawks

A couple from Sydney or Melbourne might leave on the same day for their holiday: the wife might go sun-bathing at Surfers Paradise, in Queensland, the husband ski-ing in the Snowy Mountains. A lucky country. — George Mikes

A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion. — S.A. Tawks

Your days are only important if you decide to make them important. — S.A. Tawks

Misadventure was my primary compass and I followed it without caring if I pissed off one person or a whole bunch of people. — S.A. Tawks

In a world of differing opinions, mentally unstable people and complete psychopaths, it was the type of simplistic notion that some people wouldn't want to follow or ignorance would just simply not allow them to understand. — S.A. Tawks

It was as if I was automatically one of them because I smoked. — S.A. Tawks

If there were to be a Labor-Greens government, that would be the end of the Adani mine, that would be the end of coal mining in central Queensland, and that would be the end of their best shot at economic prosperity in the future. — George Brandis

This is a very practical discussion about the fact that one of the largest coal companies in the world, Adani, wants to build one of the, develop one of the largest coal mines in Australia in this region of Australia. And if they get the green light to do that, that will secure the economic future of people in Rockhampton, and people in central Queensland. It will secure their jobs in the future, and that's what they're concerned about. — George Brandis

A misadventurer's greatest fear is their mother. — S.A. Tawks

Now comes the hard part. Peyton, Peyton, Peyton. Just say Peyton. — S.A. Tawks

The acceptance of just one person is enough to silence the rejection of thousands. — S.A. Tawks

But now I think he was trying to teach me to never feel entitled because life can be a cruel bitch at times. — S.A. Tawks

If I could say something about Capricornia, and it came out in your previous report, there is no doubt that the end of the mining boom has led to an economic downturn in central Queensland, and that is why people in Capricornia, and elsewhere in central Queensland too, are so desperate for a government that will protect their jobs and create new opportunities for jobs in the future. And that is why [Malcolm] Turnbull government's message of jobs and growth and its six point economic plan is so important to them. — George Brandis

You live by whatever rules you need to govern your life the best you think. Let's just try not to encroach. — S.A. Tawks

Other times, when existential crisis mode kicked in, I flirted with the idea of giving up and drifting whichever way gravity and wind moved me. — S.A. Tawks

As long as you don't kill someone or seriously maim them, sure, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks as long as you have a good time. — S.A. Tawks

People, regardless of political views, matter in this state and in this country and in this world. And, you know, when people attack people's basic rights and livelihoods, I'm concerned about it. And as a citizen of Queensland and nothing else, I've got the right to express my view. — Clive Palmer

I am standing for NSW Super 12 coaching position. NSW great. Queensland bad. — Damir Dokic

They had to be untrustworthy enough to buy a minor alcohol but trustworthy enough to not walk away with my money. — S.A. Tawks

I liked learning but the challenge was that my mother's need to turn education into a competition was ruining the experience for me. — S.A. Tawks

We should all live in central or southwest Queensland in Australia, which is geologically stable. Or Kansas or Nebraska, because it's relatively geologically stable. I am sure there is no emergency plan for Topeka. — Simon Winchester

Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic. — S.A. Tawks

This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do? — S.A. Tawks

The greatest thing that can happen to the state of Queensland and the nation of Australia would be if and when we get rid of the media. Then we would live in peace and tranquility - but no one would know anything!. — Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen

I studied drama at the Queensland University of Technology, which was amazing. I can't speak highly enough of that school. — Brenton Thwaites

It was odd but I couldn't jump the chasm of missing evidence to the conclusion Todd was making. — S.A. Tawks

I think the last thing you should do to someone willing to put your penis in their mouth is give them criticism. — S.A. Tawks