When we graduated [ from Cambridge], we were grabbed right into television. I was grabbed straight into the practice of writing comedy.… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I still don't like authority exercised without reason. But they laugh at you at Cambridge if you say that sort of thing.… — John Lloyd Copy Share Image
Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, most people… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge, and… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It shouldn't be a Higgs field. If it's anybody's, it should be Goldstone field, I think. When Nambu wrote his short paper… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings.… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the… — Michael Smith Copy Share Image
I spent two years in Palo Alto - what an awful, suffocating place for those of us who don't care about yoga,… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting "Encounters at the End of the World," I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
“She leaned back a little in her chair and looked at me in silence for a considerable time. Finally she said, “Of… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Harvard (across the river in Cambridge) and Boston are two ends of one mustache. ... Without the faculty, the visitors, the events… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
The passing of Marxism-Leninism first from China and then from the Soviet Union will mean its death as a living ideology ...… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
I went to a school in Cambridge, which I thought was completely rotten. Yes, hated it. Now they want me to go… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same.… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes -… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I was just looking at moving to Cambridge, and a house I was looking at cost a million dollars. Because somehow, that's… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, the mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
... You get surreal numbers by playing games. I used to feel guilty in Cambridge that I spent all day playing games,… — John Horton Conway Copy Share Image
My proudest moment of my career was opening night in Cambridge and watching the cast take their curtain call. No one was… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
You can use the Internet to find out, from anywhere on the planet: exactly how much coffee is in a certain coffee… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
As regards my own 'philosophy,' I continue to be inspired by the music, liturgy and architectural tradition of the Anglican Church in… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Relatively, there are many scientists who believe in God. And in Oxford, where I am the Professor, there are more professors like… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
I used to say Edinburgh was a beautiful actress with no talent. I thought it was just like a shortbread tin. I… — Michelle Gomez Copy Share Image
The great thing about writing about the ancient Spartans or Athenians is that so much knowledge is no longer extant that no… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I talked my parents into sending me to Roedean at 16. I had this idea that if I could get into Cambridge,… — Lucy Griffiths Copy Share Image
I used to live in New York City, then when my son was two years old we moved to Cambridge Massachusetts and… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
My summer jobs for three years were going to work in my dad's factory and earn a bit of pocket money. I… — Jo Cox Copy Share Image
The Language Laboratory at Cambridge is a very good way of finding out about grammar and the vocabulary and that's why I… — Clive James Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided… — Stephen Mangan Copy Share Image
[My father] was a banker. He was the president of the Cambridge Trust Company, the head of the trust department, and he… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
At one time in the mid-'70s I became the president of the Boston-Cambridge chapter of the World Future Society. Because I'd been… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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![“Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting "Encounters at the End of the World," I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University [Clive Oppenheimer] and we kept talking about doing a film and all of a sudden it became serious when he hinted at the possibility to film in North Korea.” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/94a/werner-herzog-964_antarctica_ten-years-ago-in-antarctica-shooting-enc_2781732.jpg)
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