I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.

— Lesley Garrett

Off-limits Sydney quotations

I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too!

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

I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.

Can you come over to Amberwood? I need you to help me break curfew and escape my dorm.” There were a few moments of silence. “Sage, I’ve been waiting two months to hear you say those words. You want me to bring a ladder?

Moroi shied from the sunlight but as I watched Sydney, I knew without a doubt that humans had been made for the sun.

All the best, Sydney P.S. "The Red Hurricane" is what I named the car. P.P.S. Just because I like you, it doesn't mean I still don't think you're an evil creature of the night. You are.

So,” I said at last, staring at my hands.

“How’s, uh, your car?” “I left it out on the street. Figured it’ll be fine there while I’m gone.

You're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other.

I’m not dangerous,” I breathed. He brought his face toward mine. “You are to me.” And somehow, against all reason, we were kissing.

I'm guessing whatever 'ways' you have in mind aren't Jill-appropriate either.

" "Put your books away and I'll show you.

My mind... It's who I am. I think I'd rather suffer any other injury in the world than have my mind tampered with.

Nothing he said could change what I think of you.

I've had my mind made up about you for a long time... and it's all good.

Whether I'm in London, Sydney or Hong Kong, it makes no difference.

There is always someone who knows me. I must be one of the most unloneliest people in the world!

Do you want me to call you Celery Stick instead of Cupcake or Honey-Pie? It just doesn’t inspire the same warm and fuzzy feelings.

I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

My boyfriend was insanely sexy, vampire or not, and I couldn't keep my hands off him.

And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

You can think whatever you want, do whatever you want.

I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.

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.

Go to the Sydney Institute Media Watch Dog website to marvel at his [Gerard Henderson's] work.

„Ma'am?“ She glanced up at me, pushing her glasses up her nose as she did.

“Hmm? Oh, I remember you. Miss Melbourne.“ “Melrose,“ I corrected. “Are you sure? I could've sworn you were named after someplace in Australia.“ „Well, my first name is Sydney,“ I said, not sure if I should be encouraging her.

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.

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.

When you look at what Star (casino) has done for Sydney over the last fifteen years.. I don't think it has done a lot. When you look at what Crown (his casino) has done for Melbourne, I think it has done an enormous amount. And there's all sorts of statistics and figures and facts that can back those things up.

This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just as complete an illusion of the masculine brain, as the other specter whom Sydney Smith laid by a joke,--the woman who would forsake an infant for a quadratic equation.

One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'

We're going on a, um, windmill tour later this week.

" If I'd wanted to shut them all up, I'd definitely succeeded. They all looked stunned. Adrian spoke first. "I'm going to assume that means he's flying you to Amsterdam on his private jet. If so, I'd like to come along. But not for the windmills.

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.

I barely ever watch TV, but when I do, I usually only watch MTV shows, like 'The Real World Sydney.'

I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.

Surfing is all about living in the moment.

When you walk out on the Sydney Cricket Ground to play cricket you're intensely aware of the history of the sport; you're playing on this historic ground surrounded by pictures of the legends. With surfing, you just dive into the water and paddle out and catch waves.

It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney].

I could learn how to surf, but I still looked Italian. It took me a long time to realize that was a good thing.

When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?

Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good looks... then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs get. It's really not even fair to everyone else.