94 Oxford Quotes for You to Enjoy

When I left Oxford, I knew I wanted to act, but I was unsure how to go about it. Eve Best

About Knew Unsure How Go Left Oxford Wanted Act

Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism. Frank Scott

Me Else Something Something Else Scepticism Also Taught Oxford

In many ways, I was a typical young guy out of college. I was at Oxford, where every night there'd be a late showing of some great film. Geoff Dyer

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If you Google me, you'll find plenty of 'dumb blonde' references - even though I graduated with honors from Stanford and studied at Oxford University. I don't let it bother me. Gretchen Carlson

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I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.' Harry Lloyd

You People School Think Know Hear Oxford Prep

When I finished my degree at Oxford, I went and acted for a bit. And I was appalling. And with each part, I thought, 'Well, that's embarrassing. I'd better do one more to show people I'm not that bad.' And, in fact, instead of a taking a year, that's gone on for 35 years. Hugh Grant

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In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life. Imran Khan

Life Me Experience Later Fact Oxford In Fact Really Helped

Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has doubled in size and grown more timely and usable than ever. James Gleick

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford. James Meade

College Economics Fellow Lecturer Oxford

My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child's attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off. Jez Butterworth

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The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford. John Aubrey

Journey Some Silver Part Takes County Thames Oxford

I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of Oxford; my mother, born Hilda Eipper, was descended from a German minister of religion who settled in New South Wales in 1832. I was the second of four children. John Cornforth

In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964. John E. Walker

Degree College Chemistry Catherine Oxford Received

As a brand new graduate student starting in October 1956, my supervisor Michail Fischberg, a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Oxford, suggested that I should try to make somatic cell nuclear transplantation work in the South African frog Xenopus laevis. John Gurdon

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Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind. John Ortberg

Love God Mind Harvard Cambridge Began Efforts Oxford To Love Universities

On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford. John Sulston

Mother Father Side Come Oxford Farmers Engineers Near

All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare. Jonathan Kozol

Education Harvard Shakespeare Paris Oxford Literature Then Even Thesis

I was born in Cleveland, Ohio; raised primarily in Phoenix, Arizona; and, after running away from home in my teens to play music and bouncing around a bit, settled in Oxford, Mississippi, which I consider more my home than anywhere else in the world. Jonathan Miles

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My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor. Karl Philipp Moritz

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At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me. Kate Beckinsale

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I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but I'm not sure how funny we were when we did it. Then, when I finished my course, it was only then that I decided to go to drama school and try and do acting because I was enjoying it so much and so on. Katherine Parkinson

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Being in Oxford can be a bit like being on holiday - there's plenty of time spent in the pub. Kevin Whately

Time Spent Bit Plenty Like Oxford Being Holiday Pub

I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended. Leonard Alfred George Strong

Work War Down Finally Broke Record Civilian Got Till Permission Leave Ended Oxford While Medical Rejected Number

I think - something I learned recently looking up the meaning of ideology. If you look in American encyclopedias, it says, you know, 'Rules for - basic rules for a system of economics or politics.' If you look in the Oxford, it says that, and then it says... 'Despite - and people will hold these propositions despite events.' Mario Cuomo

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