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149 Oxford quotes by 115 unique authors
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While at Oxford in 1999, I met Jonathan Fortier, who is a Montreal-born Canadian. Despite the challenges of a transatlantic relationship, we remained keen on…
— Anne Fortier
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I met my wife, Jennifer, while sitting next to her on the airplane on the way to England. I was heading to Oxford as a…
— Derek Kilmer
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I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now, and there is…
— Richard Dawkins
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I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.
— Kris Kristofferson
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My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette of clothing were crucial to the pervasive class…
— Russell Smith
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When I left Oxford, I knew I wanted to act, but I was unsure how to go about it.
— Eve Best
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I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.
— Ashley Madekwe
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I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours…
— Michael W. Smith
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One thing that used to worry me is the fact that it seemed like Harvard was this big scary thing where I would have to…
— Yara Shahidi
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I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.
— Richard Flanagan
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The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent…
— Kenneth Grahame
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I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford…
— Leonard Alfred George Strong
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Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism.
— Frank Scott
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For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the…
— Mary Augusta Ward
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The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible.
— Robert Baldwin Ross
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As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual…
— Niall Ferguson
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When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.
— Niall Ferguson
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To live this life, my friends, you have to have a genuine passion. Nothing artificial. To live this life, to love this life, you have…
— Prem Rawat
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Oxford whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names,…
— Matthew Arnold
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A secret in the Oxford sense: you may tell it to only one person at a time.
— Unknown Author
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It (Oxford) is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been hunted out of every corner…
— Adam Smith
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Michael Oher listen to me, all right? I want you to enjoy yourself but if you get a girl pregnant out of wedlock I will…
— The Blind Side
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I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The grey spires of Oxford Against a pearl-grey sky; My heart was with the…
— Unknown Author
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Crush. It's funny how the same word for the feeling of disappointment can be used for the feeling of attraction. The Oxford English Dictionary states…
— Ramandeep Singh
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