Queensland Quotes

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

Everything in Australia is trying to kill you, haven't you heard? Half of the ten deadliest snakes in the world live in Queensland. And then there are the poisonous spiders and the jellyfish. Not to mention the crocs and the great white sharks. Another point in favor of New Zealand. Very benign place, En Zed. ~ Rosalind James

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

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

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

Now comes the hard part. Peyton, Peyton, Peyton. Just say Peyton. ~ 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

I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care. ~ S.A. Tawks

Maybe I should have given more thought to her thoughts. ~ 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

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

Too much negativity can make the strongest structures dilapidate. ~ 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

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

Over the course of two years, from June 2004 to June 2006, two separate deaths did nothing to ease my overall anxiety. Steve's beloved Staffordshire bull terrier Sui died of cancer in June 2004. He had set up his swag and slept beside her all night, talking to her, recalling old times in the bush catching crocodiles, and comforting her.
Losing Sui brought up memories of losing Chilli a decade and a half earlier. "I am not getting another dog," Steve said. "It is just too painful."
Wes, the most loyal friend anyone could have, was there for Steve while Sui passed from this life to the next. Wes shared in Steve's grief. They had known Sui longer than Steve and I had been together.
Two years after Sui's death, in June 2006, we lost Harriet. At 175, Harriet was the oldest living creature on earth. She had met Charles Darwin and sailed on the Beagle. She was our link to the past at the zoo, and beyond that, our link to the great scientist himself. She was a living museum and an icon of our zoo.
The kids and I were headed to Fraser Island, along the southern coast of Queensland, with Joy, Steve's sister, and her husband, Frank, our zoo manager, when I heard the news. An ultrasound had confirmed that Harriet had suffered a massive heart attack.
Steve called me. "I think you'd better come home."
"I should talk to the kids about this," I said.
Bindi was horrified. "How long is Harriet going to live?" she asked.
"Maybe hours, maybe days, but not ~ Terri Irwin

Doesn't she understand that a key factor to learning is the want to learn? ~ 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

People give up. People settle. People persevere. And you can do all three if you're smart enough. ~ 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

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

The acceptance of just one person is enough to silence the rejection of thousands. ~ 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

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

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

The false hope I filled myself with is fleeing and I'm beginning to feel scared again. ~ 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

She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics. ~ S.A. Tawks

Even freedom needs some rules to keep it from being complete chaos. ~ 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

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

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

We are serious as a heart attack about making the world a better place. ~ Astro Teller

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

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

The stretch of Bruce Highway between Gin Gin and Miriam Vale was long and lonesome. ~ S.A. Tawks

Our life together was filled with contrasts. One week we were croc hunting with Dateline in Cape York. Only a short time after that, Steve and I found ourselves out of our element entirely, at the CableACE Award banquet in Los Angeles.
Steve was up for an award as host of the documentary Ten Deadliest Snakes in the World. He lost out to the legendary Walter Cronkite. Any time you lose to Walter Cronkite, you can't complain too much. After the awards ceremony, we got roped into an after-party that was not our cup of tea.
Everyone wore tuxedos. Steve wore khaki. Everyone drank, smoked, and made small talk, none of which Steve did at all. We got separated, and I saw him across the room looking quite claustrophobic. I sidled over.
"Why don't we just go back up to our room?" I whispered into his ear. This proved to be a terrific idea. It fit in nicely with our plans for starting a family, and it was quite possibly the best seven minutes of my life!
After our stay in Los Angeles, Steve flew directly back to the zoo, while I went home by way of one my favorite places in the world, Fiji. We were very interested in working there with crested iguanas, a species under threat. I did some filming for the local TV station and checked out a population of the brilliantly patterned lizards on the Fijian island of Yadua Taba.
When I got back to Queensland, I discovered that I was, in fact, expecting. Steve and I were over the moon. I couldn't believe how thrilled he w ~ Terri Irwin

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

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

Acting with confidence, but inside lacking certainty, I'd told her I could. ~ 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

My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges. ~ 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

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

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

Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen has been the Queensland premier the whole time we've been in Australia, and the state is a national joke for having a Deep North government thats said to resemble governments of a generation or more ago in some parts of the US Deep South - governments that always talk about getting things done and never talk about rights. ~ Nick Earls

Fun fact: You may hug koalas in the Australian state of New South Wales, but not in Queensland. So ... if you didn't hug your koala nice and tight before you got here to Sydney, you're going to be shit out of luck until we go back to Surfer's Paradise. ~ Elle Lothlorien

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I let my initial stance on her prettiness stand and didn't let any superficial thoughts hobble it. ~ 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

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

Misadventure asked what the harm was partaking in one more and I decided not to argue with her. ~ 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Where's your sense of misadventure? ~ 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

Everyday something unexpected happened. Everyday was exciting. Everyday was a misadventure. ~ S.A. Tawks

It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded. ~ 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

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

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

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

It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun. ~ 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

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

You know what's the worst? Having realistic, ordinary expectations taken out of your reach by seemingly unrealistic, extraordinary circumstances. ~ S.A. Tawks

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

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

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

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