Monty Python paid me £20,000 to write, direct and assemble them - the cheapskates! I told them I'd never earned less in… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College]… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Cambridge is really understanding and helpful, so that's been good, and it's just a case of trying to get stuff done when… — Hannah Murray Copy Share Image
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I… — John Pople 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
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
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
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
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
Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably...… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
So when I studied history at Cambridge, I did a special subject in that, exactly that. And then actually that - while… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was school swot, but I used to hang around the billiard halls, learning that Geordie sense of humour,… — Sid Waddell Copy Share Image
Having little money to spend was a valuable learning experience. My schooling also shaped my work ethic because while other children were… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
My favourite Friday treat is to drive out of the centre of Cambridge, where we live, and go for a swim at… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about… — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
I was able to persuade them to let me shoot in areas that were beyond the volcano itself. Beyond the joint scientific… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians -… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
I was young; I was newly married. My Cambridge degree was still warm in my pocket - a roll of parchment guaranteeing… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club,… — Anne Campbell Copy Share Image
Quite a few people have commented during the campaign that more help is required for small businesses. SMEs need support and encouragement… — Anne Campbell Copy Share Image
“Two places away to the left was the don who had been Richard’s Director of Studies in English, who showed no signs… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I am looking forward very much to getting back to Cambridge, and being able to say what I think and not to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity… — John Pople Copy Share Image
When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in… — Eddie Marsan Copy Share Image
I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the… — Graham Coxon Copy Share Image
If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
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![“If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College] or Cambridge [Harvard College]. The latter will return them to us as fanatics and tories, the former will keep them to add to their population.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/191/thomas-jefferson-43_add_if-our-legislature-does-not-heartily-pus_1816270.jpg)
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