Quotes and Sayings about Sydney

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.

Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Sydney - which is kinda the same.

You can leave Sydney, but it will never leave you.

Australia... home of every animal that seems like it should already be extinct.

In order to get cheap accommodation in Australia, we like foreign people to do manual labour for us. Helping feed the cows is very important, they are the future of McDonald's.

Australia... not just the country where Russell Crowe lives, but very much the Russell Crowe of countries.

Here was the chance to provide the leadership the country deserved: positive, modern, rational, appealing to people's hopes rather than their fears.

If you want to develop character, go to Australia.

Wow. Australia! That sounds kind of... far.

The use of the word "just" by an Australian means that whatever it is you have to do, it will not be easy, as in "Just pull that sword out of the stone" or "Just split that atom."

If you're wondering where Australia's at culturally, 30 years ago, one of its TV stations decided to play the occasional foreign film.
To this day, the most common joke about that station is you can see t*ts on there.

The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.

I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.

The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

How am I supposed to love you, when I don't love who I am?

If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you.

In life you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do.

Your wife is always right. Very simple. I think I'm going to get it tattooed on my forehead.

Well I'm rather upper class high society
God's gift to ballroom notoriety
And I always fill my ballroom
The event is never small
The social pages say I've got
The biggest balls of all

I'm a rolling thunder, pouring rain
I'm coming on like a hurricane
My lightning's flashing across the sky
You're only young, but you're gonna die
I won't take no prisoners, won't spare no lives
Nobody's putting up a fight

All you women who want a man of the street
An' don't know which way you wanna turn
Just keep a-coming
And put your hand out to me
'Cause I'm the one who's going to make you burn

I think good art does come from a dark place.

When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.

Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.

You look so perfect standing there
In my American Apparel underwear
And I know now that I’m so down
Your lipstick stain is a work of art
I got your name tattooed in an arrow heart

When I take a look at my life and all of my crimes
You're the only thing that I think I got right
I'll never give you away
'Cause I already made, already made that mistake

Lover of mine, maybe we'll take some time
Kaleidoscope mind gets in the way
Hope and I pray, darling, that you will stay
Butterfly lies, chase them away

Now I'ma be savage, but you made it happen
And you made a habit
I wonder what happened
I thought we would last 'til we turn into ashes

My heart's still tryna recover from pain all my life
I really been to hell and back a couple hundred times
Couple hundred times, read between the lines
I'm still tryin', I'm still tryin' to get by
I still got memories that lay deep inside
Creepin' up on my mind

You come in my life, just to go like the rest did
Why the f*ck does God keep testin' me?

He is by far the best one, which is not saying a ton.

Let's just say an atmosphere of polish and professionalism was not achieved.

The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact - based indeed on solid journalistic work.

When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.

I love radio - it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.

So you're single? In Paris? Now I'm even more jealous. I mean, your life is croissants and sex.

Harvey Dent: "When their enemies were at the gates, the Romans would suspend democracy and appoint one man to protect the city. It wasn't considered an honor, it was considered a public service."
Rachel Dawes: "Harvey, the last man who they appointed the Republic was named Caesar and he never gave up his power."
Harvey Dent: "Okay, fine. you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain..."

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Vienna - which is kinda the same.

Every time I describe a city, I'm saying something about Venice. The images from memory, once fixed in words, are erased. Maybe I'm afraid of losing Venice at once, if I'm talking about it. speaking in other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.