Cambridge Quotes

88 Cambridge quotes by 74 unique authors

John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain… — Terry Gilliam
I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA! — Douglas Adams
He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he… — Douglas Adams
I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival… — Graham Coxon
Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those conceptions of form… — Charles Kingsley
The passing of Marxism-Leninism first from China and then from the Soviet Union will mean its death as a living ideology ... . For while… — Francis Fukuyama
Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater, Chicago and Cambridge,… — George Gilder
As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing… — Merton Miller
Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought." — Luis Walter Alvarez
The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university… — Trevor Nunn
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities -… — Nancy Pearcey
For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile. — Rupert Brooke
I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese… — Lou Gerstner
I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale… — Peter Ackroyd
Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to… — W. W. Rouse Ball
When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge, and he finally diagnosed… — Daniel Tammet
The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds. — E E Cummings
I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don… — Stephen Fry
The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the… — Evan Davis
I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge… — Emma Donoghue
I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts. — Niall Ferguson
Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another. — E. M. Forster
At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive. — Naomie Harris
I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was… — Naomie Harris
I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen right through to… — Tom Hiddleston

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