Clever Quote by Arundhati Roy Download Open image “Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever.” — Arundhati Roy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clever Oxford Persons
I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee. — Emilia Fox Copy Share Image
How clever am I? I'm really quite clever. I mean, look, I've got a first-class degree from Oxford. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
And certainly having gone to Oxford, and seen some of the other students there, I wouldn't say the ones at my school were less… — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
What I realized the moment I got to Oxford was that someone like me could not really be part of it. I mean, I… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
There are so many people who are clever. There are 8000 people at Princeton who are more clever than the three of us at… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I had a great time at Oxford, got a wonderful, wonderful education there. — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really.... — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“There was once an old but clever donkey, who never liked the sting of any bee, Nor for all the Slung mud, did he… — Priyavrat Thareja Copy Share Image
There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
'I Love You' fails to sum up all the memories, smiles, laughs, trials, and tribulations. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift. — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
I do remember what I said. The promise. To protect her. If I'd done that ... even if I didn't make it, you wouldn't've… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image