Bad Quote by Aisling Bea

“I biked over to my dad's flat and emotionally blackmailed him into lending me enough cash to leave the country. On that trip I…

— Alex Garland

I think not getting into Cambridge was possibly the best thing that could have happened to me.

— Lolly Adefope

“By 1948 I was safe on my feet and able to get about quite normally, but I was thirty-four and life was slipping past…

— Nevil Shute

We did 10 years of working and travelling constantly, and we were just knackered. I thought: 'I've got to take a break.' I felt…

— Keren Woodward

“I'm returning to England because the reason I stayed away no longer exists, and a reason to return has unexpectedly presented itself.”

— Sylvia Day

I fell in love with Scotland and made good friends here, so I stayed after graduating with Honours in Chemistry.

— Steve Blake

“I wish I hadn't cried about a girl a couple of months ago so I would have more tears for this moment, this moment…

— D.C. Pierson

Things may not go to plan, but the unexpected throws up experiences and opportunities you had never dreamed of. I didn't get into Oxford…

— John Robins

“What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools and places…

— J.D. Salinger

I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.

— Margaret Thatcher

I thought I was going to be a Bruin my whole career, so it was really tough to leave. But you just have to…

— Joe Thornton

Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an…

— Patrick White