C. J. Dennis Quotes

I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.

As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.

It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can pay everyone who works for you.

I cannot abide being bored.

I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.

I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'

America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

Everything I publish is for my readers.

I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.

The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.

Be honest about who you are and what your bringing to the table and what your expectations are.

I just want to be in the moment and enjoy the outdoors and nature. Be able to take advantage of all the things God provided for us. That would be really nice.

I think a lot of men just automatically like to lie, because they feel like their protecting a women's feelings.

Definitely, I'm always nice. Sometimes I wish I could be naughty, I'm just a little too boring.

We as women look around for things that we need to pay attention too just in case.

I would love to write and produce. I feel as if as an actor I'm just a small part you have to multi-task to survive in the entertainment industry.

Comedy, it's a way for me to keep my acting chops. It's like a free acting class, to get up in front of a live audience. You get to have fun telling stories.

A lot of times if you go to counseling you find out the thing we think are big issues to our partner is not near as big as we think it is.

A lot of times I feel like people stick around in a relationship because they feel a primal need to be with that person for whatever reason.

I feel like there's always somebody out there ready to take your man. If you got a good man, women are like you know their sleeping around.

It's true that the man stealer is always lurking around the corner it's just our job and your duty to make sure they back up!

I hope Stoke stay up this season, and stay up for long enough so that they can get enough money and buy some footballers.

Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all.

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.

Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that?

Chinchilla is said to be more chic than mink, though personally it reminds me of unborn burlap.

When we lift our hands in praise and worship, we break spiritual jars of perfume over Jesus. The fragrance of our praise fills the whole earth and touches the heart of God.

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychiatry and an atheist, theorized that one’s attitude toward one’s father largely shaped one’s attitude toward God.

Any moral system that is detached from God, no matter how noble and sincerely held, will likewise fail.

Without God, right and wrong are just personal beliefs. Personal opinions. I think shoplifting is okay, you don’t.

Unless there is a God, all morality is just opinion and belief. And virtually every atheist philosopher has acknowledged this.

Life is not measured by what you have. It's measured by what you give.

Because what’s lifeWithout happinessAnd where’s happinessWithout risk

According to just about every poll on happiness, people on the Left are generally less happy than conservatives.

Sometimes, crazy is exactly what we need.

Stop looking to others for inspiration. Stop looking at past accomplishments. Be your own inspiration today and for tomorrow.

A life without adversity is just bland existence.

I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page forever.

The only limitations you have are those limitations you accept.

That person staring back at you when you look in the mirror... that's your competition.

You cannot win at that which you never start.

You never know what's going to inspire you, until suddenly it does.