Top 34 Deep, Inspirational Quotes About "Sydney" (2022)

"I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney."

#Boys #School #Father

"I studied classical percussion for ten years. At one point I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do."

--- Alycia Debnam Carey

#Thinking #Years #Ten

"Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature."

--- Anita Shreve

#Thinking #Mind #Men

"Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.' She's been too young to realize that he was talking to her brother."

--- Ann-Marie MacDonald

#Looks #Young #World

"As some species of plants need to be burned to the ground in order for them to later flourish, I needed to have my ass handed to be in order to get it into gear for the upcoming Sydney Olmpics. Now, I'm on a mission."

--- Xeno Muller

#Missions #Needs #Plant

"Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a frame filled with cotton. I would hold it close to my face, so close I couldn't see anything but that blue. It would fill me with a feeling, a feeling I later tried to duplicate with alcohol and finally found again with Clare, a feeling of unity, oblivion, mindlessness in the best sense of the word."

--- Audrey Niffenegger

#Mom #Found #Feelings

"Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience."

--- Barbara Hershey

#Beautiful #Cities #Great Experiences

"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."

--- Baz Luhrmann

#Hard #Beautiful #Travel

"The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it."

--- Baz Luhrmann

#Creative #Eclectic #Cuisine

"One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis."

--- Baz Luhrmann

#Huge #Bases #Acceptance

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

--- Baz Luhrmann

#People #Lost #Deals

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

--- Baz Luhrmann

#Ifs #Paris #Travel

"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."

--- Baz Luhrmann

#Giving #People #Italian

"The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it."

--- Victor Garber

#Ifs #Firsts #Made

"I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there."

--- Brendan Fraser

#Chance #Opportunity #Wanted

"I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs."

--- Bryan Brown

#Boys #Western #Suburbs

"In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney."

--- Tony Abbott

#Phones #China #Loops

"I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land."

--- Callan McAuliffe

#Littles #Sound #Land

"For me, Brett Emerton is the heart and soul of the Australian team. Him signing for Sydney FC, it has to be the biggest catch in the history of Australian football. He's a machine and he's probably the best pro I've ever trained and worked with."

--- Tim Cahill

#Machines #Soul #Heart

"After all, it was never Darnay he quoted, only Sydney, drunk and wrecked and dissipated. Sydney, who died for love."

--- Cassandra Clare

#Died #Drunk #Sydney

"I think you're peripatetic when you work in this industry. My husband and I are assuming the role of co-artistic directors at the Sydney Theatre Company in 2008. But as long as the film industry will have me, I will have it."

--- Cate Blanchett

#Thinking #Company #Long

"My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000."

--- Cathy Freeman

#Lasts #Real #Race

"All cities have one key resource: the special abilities of the people who live in them. You just have to find out what they are. In the Australian city of Adelaide, for example, which is overshadowed by Sydney and Melbourne, I discovered a number of experts in the penal system. I advised them to work with these special skills."

--- Charles Landry

#People #Special #Keys

"Vancouver is the most wonderful place. I put it up there with San Francisco and Sydney as a kind of magic sort of harbor city."

--- Terence Stamp

#Kind #San Francisco #Cities

"Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England."

--- Charles Sturt

#England #Farming #Agriculture

"The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes."

--- Charles Sturt

#Successful #Causes #Importance

"If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country."

--- Charles Sturt

#Ifs #Littles #Lines

"I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week."

--- Chris Cornell

#I Can #Week #Extremes

"As far as I'm concerned, Cate Blanchett is a goddess, but she's really down to earth. She's got all those Oscars, she's made all those amazing films and she could spend her whole life doing that, but what does she also do? She gives birth to three boys and creates her own theatre in Sydney."

--- Sylvester McCoy

#Giving #Boys #Made

"Let’s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace’s underpants, and that child fell down a staircase and hit its head on the edge of a spade."

--- Steve Toltz

#Ifs #Looks #Children

"I am thrilled to be an Olympian, and I think that although we will be underdogs we can beat many teams and will be a surprise in Sydney."

--- Steve Nash

#Thinking #Underdog #Beats

"The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. It is some consolation to realise that there is no literary world in Birmingham or Los Angeles either. I have heard there is one in Montreal, but I don't believe it. The literary world is in London and New York, the only cities big enough to sustain magazines which can afford to reject copy."

--- Clive James

#Los Angeles #Low Level #Australian

"I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it came as a shock how intelligent, interesting and funny the people were. If I lived there I might see it differently, but as a visitor it was a lot of fun."

--- Colm Toibin

#Ifs #People #Knows

"I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that."

--- Stephen Colbert

#Firsts #Years #Book

Deep, Inspirational Quotes about "Sydney"