Tasmania Quotes

• Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.

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  A. S. Byatt

  Dream   Song   Morning  

  FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Aug 27, 2011

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• I'm able to actually choose places to go which have intrigued me for the last god knows how many years, and Tasmania's always been one of those places.

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  Robert Plant

  Years   Tasmania   Able  

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The journey is long, the road is dark and frightening, but together we can reach our destination: the Tasmania of which we all dream, where all are welcome and all prosper, made no longer of lies but truth, built not of rich men's hate but our love for our island and for each other.

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  Richard Flanagan

  Dream   Hate   Lying  

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• To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania.

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  James Cook

  Writing   Tasmania   Should  

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• We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million - that's a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania.

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  Bob Brown

  Tasmania   Groups   Campaigns  

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• We want to appeal to everyone and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires. I've got this plan to buy Tasmania you see.

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  Angus Young

  Tasmania   Want   Rich  

  Interview with Sounds magazine, June 1976.

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• The first time I came to the Comedy Festival some nutcase shot a bunch of people in Tasmania. I thought, 'Oh, that's just Tasmania.' The second time I came, some nut shot up Columbine High School. Now I'm here again, and another nut just shot up a high school in Minnesota. If you can't see the connection between me playing the Comedy Festival and mass murder, you're no good at conspiracy theories.

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  Rich Hall

  School   Nuts   People  

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• I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts.

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  Martha Stewart

  Migration   Parks   Glaciers  

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• There is that interesting thing that Haughton Forrest was imagining the landscapes. They are so dramatic. They are dark, big, gloomy paintings and he was making them during some of the most ominous massacres in Tasmania. Forrest was recording history but missing the human story.

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  Ben Quilty

  Dark   Interesting   Missing  

  Source: www.lucyreesart.com

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• When I was a kid, the world was such a big place, and I had no idea that I would be afforded these great moments in between doing what I love to do. I'm able to actually choose places to go which have intrigued me for the last god knows how many years, and Tasmania's always been one of those places. I see it all and yet I see so little because it's so fast.

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  Robert Plant

  Kids   Years   Ideas  

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• The Montefiores have taken Australia for their own, and there is not a gold field or a sheep run from Tasmania to New South Wales that does not pay them a heavy tribute. They are the real owners of the antipodean continent. What is the good of our being a wealthy nation, if the wealth is all in the hands of German Jews?

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  Will Hughes

  Running   Real   Taken  

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