Quotes by New Zealand Authors

Maybe the internet raised us, or maybe people are jerks.
Lorde
The announcer, in milky tones, rolled out the commercial; it was all about some sort of washing powder that made laundry days a mere frolic in the backyard
Ruth Park
What has being a girl to do with anything if a person in properly qualified?' ... 'It's what you call prejudice,' she said.
Ruth Park
When I’d confronted him, he’d left me and, like a parasite finding a fresh host, moved in with her.
Fleur Gaskin
We might be hollow, but we're brave
Lorde
It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.
Maurice Wilkins
You're the only friend I need Sharing beds like little kids And laughing 'til our ribs get tough But that will never be enough You're the only friend I need Sharing beds like little kids And laughing 'til our ribs get tough But that will never be enough
Lorde
Then she said, with piteous defiance, "If I could love her, the Good Lord could, and he won't be too hard on an old lady who didn't have an easy life.
Ruth Park
You know when I'm down to my socks it's time for businessThat's why they're called business socksIt's business, it's business time
Flight of the Conchords
And when he got home he started on Mumma. He hated her then, because in her fatness and untidiness and drabness she reminded him of what he himself was when he was sober.
Ruth Park
Delicate in every way but oneGod knows we like archaic kinds of funChance is the only game I play with, babyWe let our battles choose us.
Lorde
And nothing's wrong when nothing's trueBut I live in a hologram with you.
Lorde
Don’t be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.
Lorde
it feels so scary getting old.
Lorde
We've both got a million bad habits to kick, not sleeping is one. We're biting our nails, you're biting my lip, I'm biting my tongue.
Lorde
I'm kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air,So there.
Lorde
We're so happy, even when we're smiling out of fear.
Lorde
Science and religion have in common the aim of seeking and achieving unity. Most scientists today are being led increasingly away from the fundamental aim of science to achieve unity into rather limited ways of thinking without much open-mindedness, doing things merely to meet limited material needs.
Maurice Wilkins
It's one thing to put on your nation's uniform to give your life for your country. But to dress up in black-market khakis and head into battle in a borrowed bush hat, armed only with a Nikon camera, 10 rolls of film and notebook, is definitely another thing.
Peter Arnett
We gladiate, but I guess we're really fighting ourselves.
Lorde
There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public.There are worse things than these miniature betrayals,committed or endured or suspected; there are worse thingsthan not being able to sleep for thinking about them.It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking inand stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.
Fleur Adcock
I've got one thing to say: I killed a lot of germans, and I'm only sorry I didn't kill more.
Nancy Wake
[a]nd the Pig Man came in from Waitomo and swore that if Louisa didn't marry him he'd damn well vote Labour at the next ele
Ruth Park
If democracy is the voice of the people, then the AP is its stenographer.
Peter Arnett
As soon as you say it about a record, you're like some little zombie in a funny dungeon.
Lorde
The executive possesses means of distracting Parliament from its proper function; it seduces members by the offer of places and pensions, by retaining them to follow ministers and ministers' rivals, by persuading them to support measures —whereby the activities of administration grow beyond Parliament's control. These means of subversion are known are known collectively as corruption, and if ever Parliament or those who elect them—for corruption may occur at this point too—should be wholly corrupt, then there will be an end of independence and liberty.
J.G.A. Pocock
If your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough.
Lorde
Let me in the ring. I'll show you what that big word means.
Lorde