Donnchadh Gough Quotes

Some people have too many crazy thoughts to keep bottled in their brains. They're called writers. ~ James Gough

When Sir Winton Turnbull [who represented a large rural seat] was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: "I am a Country member". I interjected "I remember". He could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides. ~ Gough Whitlam

I was profoundly embarrassed by it (the White Australia Policy) and did all I could to change it. ~ Gough Whitlam

An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer indebted to the nation, but increasingly indebted to the Australian Taxation Office - that's no way to improve the quality of education. ~ Gough Whitlam

Love, I thought to myself abstractedly. Not 'This is love' or 'Is this love?' Not a sentence, not a certainty, not a thought with moving parts or direction. Just love, all of it, as it is. Whether it's enough or not. Wthether it's real or we're making it up. However shoddy it gets, or bent out of shape. It's still extraordinary. However foolish, however vain. However badly it ends. Love. ~ Julian Gough

Television has always been a conversation. Movies come along and they're kind of like three-ring circuses, and there's a new one next week. ~ Alfred Gough

You know what's funny about the people who say mean things? There's a certain part of Twitter that is literally shouting into the void, and then sometimes when the void shouts back it's like, "Whoa! I wasn't expecting that. I got called out." And then if you have a conversation, you find out they like something or they like that or they have questions about that. ~ Alfred Gough

If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence. ~ John Bartholomew Gough

We now live in a world both in film and television where everything is based on something. You point out, "Star Wars" was an original screenplay, "Raiders of the Lost Ark," an original screenplay, "Ghostbusters" an original screenplay, "Back to the Future." All these things that people love were original ideas many years ago. ~ Alfred Gough

Usmanov has got loads of money - we know that from his wealth ~ Darren Gough

People buy a game because they like the game and they want to play the game. And there are certain characters in games that people like, obviously. I don't know if a certain character's voice or lack of a certain character's voice can cause somebody to buy or not buy a game. ~ Michael Gough

Whenever you do something that's original, not based on a comic book or a novel or an old movie or a franchise, you definitely learn a lot and for I think it was very gratifying to see the people embrace the world. ~ Alfred Gough

There is a lot of things to weigh up when a transfer happens, and money is a big factor. ~ Richard Gough

I played as a 17-year-old with Walter Smith, who must have been about 32. So I've known Walter for 21 years. ~ Richard Gough

I have more influence now than when I had the power. ~ Gough Whitlam

If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go. ~ John Bartholomew Gough

She was a remarkable person and the love of my life. ~ Gough Whitlam

The USA have recently done well in the Olympics and the Youth World Cup. So I think there will be some good young players available in the future, and not too expensive which is important to the club. ~ Richard Gough

So I do what any self-respecting person would: I go after her screaming. ~ Erin Gough

Once again it was Gough who stood firm for Scotland in the air ~ Jock Brown

I look at the car park and myself and Dave Watson come in with our old cars, and these young lads come in with their new Porches. I think that society has changed, there seems to be a lack of respect nowadays. ~ Richard Gough

The effect on the geo-cultural political map of Australia made by Gough Whitlam is so vast that wherever you stick the pin in, you get a wealth of Gough's legacy. ~ Cate Blanchett

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world. ~ John Bartholomew Gough

He reveals that he has been a poor politician, a bad judge and a malevolent individual. ~ Gough Whitlam

Well may we say 'God save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General'. ~ Gough Whitlam

So the idea was that, some catastrophic event had happened. There was a long dark age and then out of that, 100 years ago in this world, seven barons - these men and women - rose up and formed the new society. It's a feudal world, a part feudal barons and part warlord and part mob boss and they each control a huge resource so that there's an uneasy alliance, but they all need each other. ~ Alfred Gough

Change is sometimes good, sometimes bad. The wisdom to know the difference is a formidable power indeed. ~ Tanya Karen Gough

Ladies and gentlemen, well may we say 'God Save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General. The proclamation you have just heard was countersigned Malcolm Fraser, who will go down in history as Kerr's cur. ~ Gough Whitlam

My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time. ~ Richard Gough

Dying will happen sometime. As you know, I plan for the ages, not just for this life. ~ Gough Whitlam

Illy [Ray Illingworth] had the man-management skills of Basil Fawlty ~ Darren Gough

Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions to regular soldiers. We will abolish conscription forthwith. By abolishing it, Australia will achieve a better army, a better-paid army - and a better, united society. ~ Gough Whitlam

The novel cannot submit to authority. ~ Julian Gough

I don't know an England player who could fix a light bulb, let alone a match ~ Darren Gough

It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from the way of ruin, and win him back to life and hope. It may be a very little thing to you; but it is every thing to the young man. ~ John Bartholomew Gough

They say in old stories that you can't discover new lands without losing sight of the shore for a long time. ~ Laurie Gough

Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is the poorer - a poorer economy, a poorer civilization, because of this human and national waste. ~ Gough Whitlam

You said you didn't want to get involved with me,that one of us would get hurt and how you couldn't bear it. Well that just isn't good enough..Look what happens to people just living their lives. They get hurt, it's not fair they get hurt but they do, all the time, no matter how careful they are. Somebody can just just come along and hurt them, for no stupid reason.. ~ Julian Gough

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race. ~ Gough Whitlam

Gough, of course, would have loved to speak today but the rules of the game have disqualified him. ~ Tony Whitlam

With a television show, it's about fighting to get it on the screen every week. It's like going into battle, and you have to fight these fights. Some are big fights, some are skirmishes, some you can come to detente on, but it's always a fight. ~ Alfred Gough

My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was a cause that went to the heart of our way of life. ~ Gough Whitlam

The Caucus I joined in 1953 had as many Boer War veterans as men who had seen active service in World War II, three from each. The Ministry appointed on 5 December 1972 was composed entirely of ex-servicemen: Lance Barnard and me. ~ Gough Whitlam

Toasted Heretic should have been cherished and helped, rather than ignored or sneered at, or put down as "quirky band with an arrogant singer". So I certainly didn't help the band, but the virtues I had meant that we recorded albums when everyone else just listened to them. But, yes, if you could suffer from high self-esteem, then I certainly suffered. ~ Julian Gough

I've never said I'm immortal. I do believe in correct language. I'm eternal; I'm not immortal. ~ Gough Whitlam

Castles made of sand slip into the sea eventually ~ JIMI HENDRIX, MUSICIAN ~ Leo Gough