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You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them — Evelyn Waugh
Ralston stiffened at the reference to the stupid wager that caused so much pain and unhappiness. He ignored Oxford's proffered hand, and instead met the… — Sarah MacLean
Ralston didn't care. He turned on his brother as the surgeon knelt next to him and inspected the wound. "She could have been killed!" And… — Sarah MacLean
An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is… — Christopher Hitchens
I walk to Oxford Street and climb on the number 8. It's freezing and it starts to rain and it's the ugliest bus I've ever… — David Thewlis
I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's… — Connie Willis
In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?" Langdon had no idea, but he could imagine only one reason… — Dan Brown
Ralston looked down his long, elegant nose at the vile creature at his feet, and said, “You just impugned the honor of my future marchioness.… — Sarah MacLean
There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has… — Lynne Truss
He was wearing a plain white oxford unbuttoned over a T-shirt, but something about the way they fit made him look put together, like an… — Claire LaZebnik
Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for… — Evelyn Waugh
Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and… — Philip Pullman
Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything. — David Bowie
...when all the openings were closed, then the worlds would all be restored to their proper relations with one another, Lyra’s Oxford and Will’s would… — Philip Pullman
She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer. When she saw the answer, she relaxed… — Philip Pullman
God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if… — Oscar Wilde
I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee. — Emilia Fox
I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a… — Peter Capaldi
I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was… — T. J. Miller
Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that line Oxford Street, the hopelessness of even… — Deborah Moggach
All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare. — Jonathan Kozol
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I… — Robert Darnton
I love traditional shoes. I have a nice couple of pairs of traditional Oxford-style shoes, a pair of Edward Green shoes, and I aspire to… — Jamie Cullum
It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time. — Samantha Shannon
That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don,… — Diana Quick

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