#ox

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#books #especially #girl #oxford #seventeen

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 newest quarter of the University town. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#little #lived #newest #nine #north

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#died #eight #father #fells #four

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. ↗

— Earl Warren

#failure #found #imperatives #internationalism #most

When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let's get that going. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#big #big hit #box #box office #christ

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#beautiful city #certain #city #convenient #growing

I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it's kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that's great. Then I'm really pleased about that too. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#am #another #box #box office #films

Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept. ↗

— Chris Wedge

#age #also #came #comedy #concept

We are going to put out a boxed set thing, but I don't want to do it yet. I want to wait until we're 45 and we're bitter and broke. Then, we'll put out the comprehensive Ween boxed set. ↗

— Gene Ween

#boxed #broke #comprehensive #going #i

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. ↗

— Simone Weil

#does #first #force #intoxicates #man