But the most horrible spot .... lies....immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group.… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“...quite the chilliest and least human known to me. You see brains floating like so many sea-anemones, nor have they shape or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Well, start waving and yelling, because it is the so-called Oxford comma and it is a lot more dangerous than its exclusive,… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and… — Alice Eve Copy Share Image
I work with the Oxford Dictionary databases, which sounds really boring, but they're actually fascinating as they show you how current words… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as… — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Gloria watched the swollen white orb of a hot-air balloon rising over Navy Pier and knew she had to break it off… — Andrea Kayne Kaufman Copy Share Image
When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and… — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Wormholes were first introduced to the public over a century ago in a book written by an Oxford mathematician. Perhaps realizing that… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ralston didn't care. He turned on his brother as the surgeon knelt next to him and inspected the wound. "She could have… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure.… — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Cory Booker I've known since 1993. We used to be part of the L'Chaim Society at Oxford University together. — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
“There, eastward, within a stone’s throw, stood the twin towers of All Souls, fantastic, unreal as a house of cards, clear-cut in… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
