All Quotes

In Austin, the eco-capital of Texas, residents tend to favor native plants and wildflowers to the sculpted lawns of the Palm Springs variety.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley

In Australia, a deaf person attending an interview must take their own interpreter at their own expense, or ask the employer to provide one. Believe me, nothing says 'I'm the best person for this job' quite like asking an employer to pay to interview you.
‐‐ Stella Young

In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

In Australia, getting an audition can be a rarity. There just aren't as many opportunities.
‐‐ Xavier Samuel

In Australia, I can just say to my mom, 'I'm going down the street.' And I can walk around pretty much all the places I know.
‐‐ Kodi Smit-McPhee

In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
‐‐ Jacki Weaver

In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.
‐‐ Chris Lilley

In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!
‐‐ Frances O'Connor

In Australia, I wrote lots of little plays and put them on, and then I worked on a few different TV shows, like the Australian equivalent of 'SNL.' I would write and perform all of my characters.
‐‐ Rebel Wilson

In Australia, kids play in American accents.
‐‐ Yael Stone

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.
‐‐ Phyllis McGinley

In Australia, the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

In Australia, there aren't a lot of people committed to art, so these communities form that are dedicated to music, theater, cinema, but they're very small. So, they tend to move ahead on the power of collaboration, enthusiasm and creativity.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.
‐‐ Tammin Sursok

In Australia, there just weren't strong roles for actors of colour. I was often being asked to turn up for commercials with a ghetto blaster on my shoulder. I thought, 'Are we in the '60s?'
‐‐ DeObia Oparei

In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
‐‐ Barry Humphries

In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.
‐‐ Bruce Beresford

In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.
‐‐ Brenton Thwaites

In Australia, we point out a person's weaknesses as a way of saying 'I see you and I accept you'. If you do that with Americans, they instantly take offence.
‐‐ Andrew Dominik

In Australian culture, people are just more laid back, people aren't as serious, they just take their time with things. It's just like, whatever, if I don't get it done I don't get it done.
‐‐ Andrew Bogut

In Austria, a rather authoritarian Catholic country, the role of the social admonisher traditionally fell to artists because there were no great political thinkers.
‐‐ Elfriede Jelinek

In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.
‐‐ Dennis Quaid

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.
‐‐ Rutherford B. Hayes

In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet.
‐‐ Les Dawson

In bad times, the rich usually get richer.
‐‐ Stuart Wilde

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.
‐‐ Terry Brooks

In badminton, they use a lot from the wrist. But I use a lot from the shoulder.
‐‐ Li Na

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
‐‐ George Balanchine

In Baltimore, I was walking with a friend who was playing at a pub he kept referring to as the Horse. But when I saw the sign 'The Horse You Came In On' - I thought, 'My God.' I had no intention of ever setting a Jury novel in the U.S., but when I saw that, I thought, 'That's it.' The names are very important.
‐‐ Martha Grimes

In Bangladesh, if you put a kiss in a film, it's political.
‐‐ Sarah Gavron

In baptism, new Christians become part of a body of fellow believers who are called to spiritually encourage one another and hold one another responsible for consistent Christian living.
‐‐ Tony Campolo

In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.
‐‐ Mike McCurry

In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation.
‐‐ Jim Hunt

In Barcelona, things seem so different. For example, I know that it's traditionally the least Spanish city, but you'd never know they had a monarchy, coming here as a tourist - as opposed to the U.K., where the Queen is probably the best-known animal, vegetable and/or mineral going when it comes to overseas visitors.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

In barely one generation, we've moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from them - often in order to make more time. The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.
‐‐ Pico Iyer

In baseball 30 days is an eternity.
‐‐ Alex Rodriguez

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.
‐‐ Ernie Harwell

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.
‐‐ Bo Jackson

In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.
‐‐ Curt Schilling

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.
‐‐ Tom Seaver

In baseball, there's always the next day.
‐‐ Ryne Sandberg

In baseball, you can do something poorly and still get credit. A pitcher could throw a bad ball, the batter hit a screaming line drive, and an outfielder make a fantastic diving catch. Yet, when you look at historical databases, 80% of the time when a ball is struck with that trajectory and velocity, it is a hit.
‐‐ Billy Beane

In baseball, you can hit 40 home runs on a single-A-league team and never get paid a thing. But in a hedge fund, you get paid on your batting average. So you go to the worst league you can find, where there's the least competition.
‐‐ Julian Robertson

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
‐‐ Earl Weaver

In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.
‐‐ Jed S. Rakoff

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
‐‐ Nate Silver

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.
‐‐ Ken Harrelson

In baseball, you pack your uniform in the clubhouse after a ball game, and you see it hanging up in your locker when you get to your next city.
‐‐ Harmon Killebrew

In baseball, you're always moving people around.
‐‐ Joe Torre