Oxford Quotes - Page 5

• When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

  Niall Ferguson

  School, Firsts, Institutions

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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

  Topshop, Ferrets, Branches

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sure enough at Oxford, I was another Yank half a step behind.

  William J. Clinton

  Half, Steps, Enough

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• I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.

  Mick Jagger

  College, Dull, Wonderful

  "Jagger Remembers: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.mickjagger.com. November 7, 1995.

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• 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 he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

  Colin Baker

  Father, Thinking, Income

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• I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.

  Sophie Kinsella

  College, Gone, Done

  "Big ideas". Interview With Alice Wignall, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2004.

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• I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

  G. H. Hardy

  Science, Past, Littles

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.148, Cambridge University Press

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• This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welcomed him home, and sayd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.

  John Aubrey

  Queens, Home, Queen Elizabeth

  John Aubrey (1962). “Brief lives”

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• ...60 advocates of unorthodox therapies whose credentials are given in the ACS book (above).(:) Of these 60, thirty-nine or almost two-thirds, hold...medical degrees from such universities as Harvard, Illinois, Northwestern, Yale, Dublin, Oxford, or Toronto. Two are osteopaths. 3...also hold...(PhD's)....scientific....reputable....8 others received PhD's in such fields as chemistry, physiology, bacteriology, parasitology, or medical physics, from...Yale, Johns Hopkins, UC Berkeley, Columbia, and NYU. Thus over 75%...are medical doctors or doctors of philosophy in scientific areas.

  Ralph W. Moss

  Philosophy, Book, Dark

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• I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously.

  Nina Bawden

  Mother, School, Finals

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• It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow tree, and it is pumping downy seeds into the air. ... spreading DNA whose coded characters spell out specific instructions for building willow trees that will shed a new generation of downy seeds. ... It is raining instructions out there; it's raining programs; it's raining tree-growing, fluff-spreading, algorithms. That is not a metaphor, it is the plain truth. It couldn't be any plainer if it were raining floppy discs.

  Richard Dawkins

  Rain, Character, Garden

  "The Blind Watchmaker". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1986.

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• Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Learning, Science, Men

  Thomas Sydenham, Kenneth Dewhurst (1966). “Dr. Thomas Sydenham, 1624-1689: His Life and Original Writings”

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• "It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn."

  Evelyn Waugh

  New Year, Autumn, Years

  "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.

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• 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

  Love, College, Literature

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.96, Xist Publishing

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• Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

  Max Beerbohm

  Hate, School, Boys

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1970). “Selected prose”

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• I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

  Taiye Selasi

  Writing, Yale, Play

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• It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one could not say the adverse chance was 1:10. Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad, and then this particular event would be quite likely.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Learning, Math, Past

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• Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!

  Umberto Eco

  Heart, Taught, Reason

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

  Oscar Wilde

  Father, Two, Prison

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.99, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• ...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself a satisfaction to sense.

  Henry James

  Air, Mind, Liberty

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.11565, Delphi Classics

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• The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.

  John Aubrey

  Religious, Writing, Men

  "John Aubrey and the realm of learning". Book by Michael Cyril William Hunter, Science History Publications, p. 122, 1975.

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• I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.

  Nigel Rees

  College, Ethos

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• At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble

  Alister E. McGrath

  Atheist, Atheism, Certainty

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• I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Education, Thinking, World

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• 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 should go to Oxford.

  Nina Bawden

  Jobs, War, Auntie

  "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

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