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I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.
In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.
There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.
One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.
I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn't picked me up.
I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.
Every well-dressed gentleman must have an all-cotton oxford cloth button-down shirt from Brooks Brothers.
On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.
Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!
I met my husband Itzik when I got back home to Israel from Oxford in 2002. He is my Internet-of-all-Things.
Cory Booker I've known since 1993. We used to be part of the L'Chaim Society at Oxford University together.
All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.
I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.
When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.
I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.
...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.
Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!
It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.'
I arrived at Arsenal in 2010, and had five spells out on loan - plus another one with Oxford where I played just once.
Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn't know anything until I went to Oxford.
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.
I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'
Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.
I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.
There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."
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.
I hope I helped change people's preconceptions about 'Page 3' girls by appearing on Newsnight and at the Oxford Union debate.
Oxford is wonderful. I'm having a great time. We do go out, but I still try to spend most of my time studying in the library.
It's lovely going to Oxford, it's very difficult to film there as you're doing a period drama in a city which is very crowded.
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?
I decided to finish at Oxford because I looked up at the top of the buildings - the gargoyles and spires - and decided to stay.
I was lucky to get to Oxford. I am now an honorary fellow of my old college, which is nice, particularly for a colonial like me.
Theres nothing to fear but fears themselves, such as monsters, rejection, food poisoning, redundancy, monsters, and oxford commas.
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 Mr. Toad.
At the age of 14, I moved across town to Magdalen College School, Oxford, where science played a much larger role in the curriculum.
There are no sick people in North Oxford. They are either dead or alive. It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference, that's all.
What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.
There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.
When I was at Oxford, I was a Thatcher child; I was fascinated by politics and I spent three years being obnoxious in the Oxford Union.
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 Marshall scholar.
I have worked out that I am living in London on £27 a day while David Cameron is claiming a damn sight more for his big house in Oxford.
Boxers don't tend to come from Cambridge or Oxford. Sometimes the things we say don't come out well. We are not known for our vocabulary.
I studied law at Warwick University, then philosophy at Oxford. I met my wife Leah there. She is American, so I followed her to New York.
To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.
I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.
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.