Famous quotes containing the words academic, australian, game and/or show:
“I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future hinge on such people and such decisions.”
—Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)
“The Australian mind, I can state with authority, is easily boggled.”
—Charles Osborne (b. 1927)
“The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)
“There are some faults which, when dexterously managed, make a brighter show than virtue itself.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)