Turbar Aussies Quotes & Sayings

The sunset was a splendid display. I wondered if it was showing off for my benefit or if it was often that spectacular. Rarely had I seen such a gorgeous scene; the riotous colors flamed out over the sky in shades that I had no words to describe. Birds sang their last songs of the day before tucking in for the night, and still the darkness hung back. Now, I thought, I understand the word "twilight." It was created for just this time - in this land. — Janette Oke

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. — John McCarthy

Whenever I'm running an hour late for for work, it always makes me feel better when I can leave an hour early at the end of the day to make up for it. — Mark W. Boyer

He believed in courage combined with intelligence, and that was what he called strength. Courage has
been turned in his name against intelligence, and the virtues that were really his have thus been
transformed into their opposite: blind violence. He confused freedom and solitude, as do all proud spirits.
His "profound solitude at midday and at midnight" was nevertheless lost in the mechanized hordes that
finally inundated Europe. — Albert Camus

Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every day the straight tree would look at the crooked tree and he would say, "You're crooked. You've always been crooked and you'll continue to be crooked. But look at me! Look at me!" said the straight tree. He said, "I'm tall and I'm straight." And then one day the lumberjacks came into the forest and looked around, and the manager in charge said, "Cut all the straight trees." And that crooked tree is still there to this day, growing strong and growing strange. — Tom Waits

When Father smiled, it was like the sun coming out, and spring and summer in your heart. — Gladys Taber

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health. — Daniel Baldwin

I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s. — Jonny Greenwood

It doesn't matter who you are,or how good you got things. Sooner or later,shit goes wrong for everybody. Sooner or later,there comes a time when all you want to do is shout Fuck you to the world. — Garth Ennis

I am a feather for each wind that blows — William Shakespeare

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself. — Seneca The Younger

Honest to god, I'm so happy it's frightening! I'm just so chuffed - that's all I can say.
(on playing for Liverpool again) — Robbie Fowler

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are. — Paulo Freire