A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Austin?" she whispered, not sure what to do.
He turned to her and pulled her into his arms. Her mouth opened in surprise and the next thing she knew, he was kissing her. His mouth was warm against here. At first, she was too stunned to react. But after a moment, she put her arms around his neck and lost herself in the kiss.
As the headlights of the sheriff's car washed over them, the golden glow seemed to warm the night because she no longer felt cold. She let out a small helpless moan as Austin deepened the kiss, drawing her even closer.
As the sheriff's card went on past, she felt a pang of regret. Slowly, Austin drew back a little. His gaze locked with hers, and for a moment they stood like that, their quickened warm breaths coming out in white clouds.
"Sorry."
She shook her head. She wasn't sorry. She felt...light-headed, happy, as if helium filled. She thought she might drift off into the night if he let go of her.”
Source: Deliverance at Cardwell Ranch
“Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.”
“Austin Taylor was wild. It was the most beautiful thing about her. I'd tamed her a bit: earned her submission in the bedroom, gotten her used to kisses that didn't come with expectations, and saddled her with a pet name. But that didn't change the fact that she was wild and what was wild could not be bought or sold.”
Source: Playing with Fire
“Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them.”
“Austrailia, Sydney Might run up in Disney Out in LA with Lindsay.”
“Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile.”
“Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.”
“Australia Day isn't about racism. It's about belonging and being a part of one of the best countries on Earth.”
“Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.”
“Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.”
“Australia has always put out some good design, particularly environmental graphics. I associate that with Australia, more so that a lot of other places. Whether that has anything to do with the landscape, who knows?”
“Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.”
“Australia has become a much sought-after paradise destination for people seeking global migration and better lives. It is a stable constitutional monarchy, a liberal democracy and a first world country. It has a high standard of living, sound investment prospects, good growth, political and economic stability and excellent wages and conditions. It offers protection of individual rights by the well-established rule of law with roots in Great Britain.Tyndall & Co. provides migration advice, consulting and visa preparation and lodgment services, and is a registered Australian migration agent.”
“Australia has got some of the best sports people in the world, but we've also got some of the best scientists and innovators too, and that needs to be celebrated more.”
“Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world.”
“Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south.”
“Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation.”
Source: Locations
“Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.”
“Australia is a land that offers a vision of the world as it was at creation, a country of new beginnings. It is where one comes when one needs to feel close to the original ferment of the earth. That is the story, is it not? Great men have become part of this place in one way or another and Henry has made it his business to know of these things... It is not a bad place. But it is not quite what Henry thought it would be. It is not the free place he was promised.”
Source: The Other Side of the World
“Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck.”
Source: Winner take all?
“Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.”
“Australia is a phenomenally beautiful country, and every time I go away and come back, it never ceases to amaze me.”
“Australia is a very healthy country which goes along with the fact that it's very high on the Human Development Index, high wealth, good levels of education. So Australia ranks right up there, second or third on the Human Development Index. And Indigenous Australians, if you treated them as if they were a separate country, would rank probably about 100th or below 100.”
“Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.”
“Australia is already a world leader in dementia research, treatment and care.”
“Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbour and playing in the beautiful parks.”
“Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development.”
“Australia is breathtakingly beautiful, and I can't wait to visit again.”
“Australia is filled with roundabouts and everyone drives on the wrong side of the road. In the end we decided to split up the work and I feverishly watched the GPS and yelled, "Left! Right! ROUNDABOUT!”
Source: Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
“Australia is not very exclusive. On the visa application they still ask if you've been convicted of a felony - although they are willing to give you a visa even if you haven't been.”
Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus
“Australia is one of my favorite places in the world. I spend a lot of time there. And I find Sydney a lot like LA in some ways, and it's beautiful, great for kids, and I absolutely love it over there.”
“Australia is one of the few places that I can think of where the cities, at least those I've been to, seem to have strikingly different characters and visual textures. To an American like me, there's basically Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and the rest is all bush.”
“Australia, is paradise found.”
“Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.”
Source: Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales
“Australia is so cool that it's hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful; so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago.”
“Australia is so entrenched in rock'n'roll and bands, and that's just the way Australia is.”
“Australia is the most isolated continent.”
“Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.”
“Australia is this former British colony at the foot of Asia. We've been involved - we've been in lockstep with America in every battle you have fought for a century. We were there in Vietnam. We were there in Korea. We were there in Iraq. We were there in Afghanistan. We are slightly apprehensive about the rise of China.”
“Australia is very good friends with China, perhaps better friends than America is.”
“Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.”
Source: Artificial Australia
“Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.”
“Australia objects to the mini-skirt not on moral but on economic grounds. Australians are no prudes and the lovely, healthy, sporty Australian girls have no reason to hide their knees and thighs. However, the mini-skirt is disastrous for the wool-trade.”
“Australia played some good cricket, but they have forgotten how to win.”
“Australia's failure to adopt the constitutional amendments that would have recognised prior occupation of the continent by the First Peoples and their right to a constitutional voice indicate that racism is not even subcutaneous.”
Source: The Odd Couple: Re-configuring the America-Australia relationship
“Australia seems to strike a balance between big and small. It's big enough to have that diversity, but not so big that it disintegrates into something that is not connected.”
“Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.”
“Australia was great. I would advise anybody to go there. In fact, if you couldn't live here, Australia would be the place to live. It's the most Americanized country that I've ever seen in the world.”
“Australia was once a leader in taking global warming seriously. The former PM [Kevin Rudd] called it 'greatest moral challenge of our time'. But in the past couple of years the national consensus has been eroded and Australians are being encouraged by the polluters and their mates in Parliament to forget it was ever mentioned. It's heartbreaking.”
“Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts.”