Cambridge Quotes

• I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Find
  • Word
  • Cambridge

• What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Writing
  • Oxford
  • Cambridge

• She's got a rum job, but she knows how to do it, and to have a job and know how to do it is one of the best things in this life. And if only she stops hankering after Cambridge...

  

  Arthur Ransome
  • Life
  • Job
  • Rum

• Cambridge is really understanding and helpful, so that's been good, and it's just a case of trying to get stuff done when I am there and just being efficient with managing my time.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Understanding
  • Efficient
  • Managing

• In 1978 I decided not to work with Man Ray as an act of self-discipline. I didn't want to rely on him. Man Ray hated not working, though. He would come into my studio, see me drawing or working on photographs, and just slump down at my feet with a big sigh. Fortunately for both of us the year ended. Polaroid had invented a new camera, the twenty-by-twenty-four, and I was invited to Cambridge, Mass., to experiment with it. Naturally, I took Man Ray and we were working again.

  

  William Wegman
  • Discipline
  • Drawing
  • Photograph

• We built a bit of an audience at our university in Cambridge, playing Beethoven and Mozart quartets.

  

  Grace Chatto
  • Audience
  • Built
  • Mozart

• Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.

  

  Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
  • Nature
  • Clean
  • Cambridge

• I went to a school in Cambridge, which I thought was completely rotten. Yes, hated it. Now they want me to go back there and support this, that, and the other and I haven't managed to pluck up the courage to even face it yet.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Support
  • Courage
  • Hated

• The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.

  

  William Browne
  • Learning
  • Argument
  • University

• I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours program at the University of Manchester in 1950, where the professors were E.R.H. Jones and M.G. Evans, and graduated in 1953, with the financial support of a Blackpool Education Committee Scholarship.

  

  Michael Smith
  • Financial
  • Committee
  • Proficient

• I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Grows
  • Cambridge