I read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure. It represents the Oxford that the two World Wars have destroyed with a charm that is not likely to be reproduced….
I had published a co-edited book with Oxford a decade ago, my first book actually. Years later I found myself having lunch with Lori Stone, who was a….
Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; I wa….
I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and h….
I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense..
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 on the ….
I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini wax. See what Hollywood does to you?.
There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford..
Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed t….
Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent..
I drove to Oxford with my van full of petrol and tin cans, as I didn't know there were service stations on the motorway. I pulled up on the hard shou….
New West End Company ensures that there is a body that can put significant investment into the West End, targeted directly to the needs of the area a….
We've been in lots of places that I suppose, by Oxford standards, would be considered illiterate, but everyone's completely conversant with the idea ….
There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean..
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical….
I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I….
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be….
Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever..
What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it..
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 at once. He could ….
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 not famous, I'll be notori….