#oxford

My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#boy #clever #could #express #far

I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#craft #equipped #felt #had #highest

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! ↗

— Philip Pullman

#basic #british #education #english #entire

Gloria watched the swollen white orb of a hot-air balloon rising over Navy Pier and knew she had to break it off with Oliver, for he was the type who would never enjoy hot-air balloons, Van Morrison songs, or mess, whether from orgasm or otherwise. But who was she to be dreaming about mess today? ↗

— Andrea Kayne Kaufman

#music #ocd #oxford #poetry #redemptive

For all of my life I'd been extremely healthy. I'd never had any health issues, so to go from being perfectly healthy to having this very rare disease was scary. In a lot of people it is very severe. Some people go blind, you can have neuro-lesions which affect your brain, so I was very nervous. ↗

— Sanya Richards-Ross

#going #i #indefensible #indefinable #manner

I feel as healthy as I've ever felt. ↗

— Sanya Richards-Ross

#going #i #indefensible #indefinable #manner

The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible. ↗

— Robert Baldwin Ross

#going #i #indefensible #indefinable #manner

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse. ↗

— Sanya Richards-Ross

#going #i #indefensible #indefinable #manner

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

— Godfrey Harold Hardy

#forty #i #little #oxford #past

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life. ↗

— Imran Khan

#fact #helped #in fact #later #life