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Quotes About Cambridge

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 tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.
~ Rowan Atkinson
As regards my own 'philosophy,' I continue to be inspired by the music, liturgy and architectural tradition of the Anglican Church in which I was brought up. No one can fail to be uplifted by great cathedrals - such as that at Ely, near my home in Cambridge.
~ Martin Rees
When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius came up with the idea of putting on Russian plays with the students to improve their language skills.
~ Robert Gottlieb
Trouble-strewn India was no longer a rich source of career opportunities for English graduates of Oxford and Cambridge, who for decades had taken Indian civil service exams, headed east on Peninsula & Orient steamers to make their fortunes in Bengal, and won fame fighting along India's northwest frontier.
~ Stanley Wolpert
In the early 1950s the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, tried something old. Like many another venue for productions of Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Shaw, the Brattle had become a film house in the early 1950s. But it was a film house unlike any other. It had a rear-screen projector, rather than the standard setup that beamed movies on a screen above the audience. And it had owners who believed that the past could be more alluring than the present.
~ Stefan Kanfer
Cambridge produces in abundance talents with the ability to please, but few with that greater ability to disregard whether they please or not.
~ Michael Frayn
Even austere, puritanical Cambridge of the Sixties was infinitely nicer and infinitely more attractive than the world I'd known before.
~ David Starkey
I was always amazed at Cambridge how quickly people appeared to take offence at everything I said, but now I see plainly that it was not my words they hated - it was this fairy face. The dark alchemy of this face turns all my gentle human emotions into fierce fairy vices. Inside I am all despair, but this face shows only fairy scorn. My remorse becomes fairy fury and my pensiveness is turned to fairy cunning.
~ Susanna Clarke
Their love story unfolded and then folded up again in Cambridge, as I watched and took mental notes and learned nothing, naturally, because the heart is unteachable.
~ Susanna Kaysen
Hamish said: He is the biggest seducer in Cambridge.
~ Sylvia Plath
Baron-Cohen. In 2001, he and his colleagues at the Autism Research Centre in Cambridge, England, introduced the autism-spectrum quotient questionnaire
~ Temple Grandin
When I got to Cambridge," Robert said, "I was faced with the problem of looking at a question to which no one knew the answer—but I wasn't willing to face it. When I left Cambridge, I didn't know how to face it very well, but I understood that this was my job; this was the change that occurred that year.
~ Kai Bird
I decided I wanted to go to Cambridge, and then I got introduced to Fred Sanger. I was very conscientious, and I asked him when I first got there if I should start reading up on things. But he said, 'No, I think you can just start these experiments,' so I plunged right in.
~ Elizabeth Blackburn
I spent two years in Palo Alto - what an awful, suffocating place for those of us who don't care about yoga, yogurts and start-ups - and now I have moved to Cambridge, MA - which, in many respects, is like Palo Alto but a bit snarkier.
~ Evgeny Morozov
I was born in Cambridge but brought up in and around Winchester, in Hampshire. I've also lived in Hong Kong and America.
~ Chris Geere
They'd never been friendly in Cambridge, but in L.A., they had become instant best friends in the way people can in their twenties.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
More than just the ship,' said the Doctor. He indicated the burnt ends of the tangled fibres. 'There was enough thermal energy generated by that thing to destroy an entire planet.' 'He was going to wipe out Cambridge?' Chris was horror-struck. 'All the colleges? The Backs, the railway station… the pubs?' 'Plus the entire planet,' said the Doctor gravely.
~ Gareth Roberts
She had not thought it would be so easy to slip into the old roles. Cambridge had changed her fundamentally and she thought she was immune. No one in her family, however, noticed the transformation in her, and she was not able to resist the power of their habitual expectations.
~ Ian Mcewan
But Cecilia, having learned modern forms of snobbery at Cambridge, considered a man with a degree in chemistry incomplete as a human being.
~ Ian Mcewan
She had returned from Cambridge with a vague notion that her family was owed an uninterrupted stretch of her company.
~ Ian Mcewan
One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier.
~ Claire Tomalin
I think everyone in the United States has such admiration for the British royal family, and with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, there's a whole new interest in the younger generation.
~ Anna Wintour
I ended up at Durham School, which was lovely, then Trinity College Cambridge.
~ Alexander Armstrong
I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.
~ Lou Gerstner