Cambridge Quote by Eric Idle

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this…

— Rowan Atkinson

Monty Python paid me £20,000 to write, direct and assemble them - the cheapskates! I told them I'd never earned less in a year…

— Eric Idle

At Cambridge, you have to kiss the vice-chancellor's fingers. But I missed out on that, 'cause I was doing a matinee. I don't want…

— Eric Idle

My first professional job was appearing in a disastrous theatre production of Oh, What a Lovely War in Leicester Rep, shortly after leaving Cambridge.

— Eric Idle

When we graduated [ from Cambridge], we were grabbed right into television. I was grabbed straight into the practice of writing comedy. It was…

— Eric Idle

My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was…

— Eric Idle

Having little money to spend was a valuable learning experience. My schooling also shaped my work ethic because while other children were listening to…

— Eric Idle

At one time in the mid-'70s I became the president of the Boston-Cambridge chapter of the World Future Society. Because I'd been in my…

— Paul Laffoley

I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.

— Antony Hewish

When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius…

— Robert Gottlieb

But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that…

— Aaron Klug