Sky News Australia Quotes & Sayings

We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars. — Bill Bruford

People are people, whatever age they're living in. The circumstances may have changed - we go to war with planes instead of chariots - but experiences of grief, longing, rage and love remain the same. — Madeline Miller

And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself. — Murray Walker

Identifying as a writer is a matter of self-acceptance. It's not a thing that can be given to you, or bestowed upon you. You are a writer if you write. That's it. If what you are seeking is to be acknowledged as a writer by other people, many of them strangers, you're in for a demoralizing journey. It is a silly club where those who have been 'accepted' are loathe to permit others into. It's sort of like how we Americans love denying our own immigrant origins while railing against immigration. — Vincent Louis Carrella

A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment. — Mark Twain

Everybody who is young is promising. The world should sue the young for breach of promise. — Rocky Graziano

The brutal aggression of these would-be soldiers and heroes, wrenched from hopelessness and unemployment and easily turned into unthinking zealots, chilled — Anton Gill

El-lie, Come out, come out, wherever you are! The cat's finally away. Time for the mouse to come out and play. — Kelly Oram

What I do is I'm a bandleader, frontman, entertainer. — Shane MacGowan

Yeah, ESP," Juvenal said. "You know how you do it? You listen to the other person instead of thinking of what you're gonna say next. That's all, and you learn things. — Elmore Leonard

The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate, will bring neither gain nor loss of utility. — William Stanley Jevons