Oxford In The Vacation Quotes & Sayings

There is more to life than surviving — Cassandra Clare

I can't pinpoint it exactly. All I can say is that, on some subconscious level, I've known I've been attracted to women for a very long time, but I buried that knowledge so far in the back of my mind, I was successfully able to brush it off as a quirk, as a frivolity, as something unimportant to the life I was leading. — Harper Bliss

Words, however, are things. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say. — Will Cuppy

Baseball gets better for whatever reason. — Rafael Palmeiro

My duty moves along with my song:
I am I am not: that is my destiny.
I exist not if I do not attend to the pain
of those who suffer: they are my pains.
For I cannot be without existing for all,
for all who are silent and oppressed,
I come from the people and I sing for them:
my poetry is song and punnishment. — Pablo Neruda

My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me. — Antonia Thomas

Borders are fluid things; they help define our identities, and yet so often we use our identities to push up against borders and redraw them. — Jack Shenker

You've got to get the fundamentals down, because otherwise the fancy stuff is not going to work. — Randy Pausch

We are not defined by our past but are rather being prepared by our past. — Rick Martinez

For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own. — Paul Engle

You can never go wrong with a nice red lip. I'm not afraid to wear it during the day or basically any time because I wear a lot of black and it's a great backdrop for it. — Crystal Renn

Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou calledst it, to look back to with blind veneration; thou thyself being to thyself flat, jejune, modern! What mystery lurks in this retroversion? or what half Januses are we, that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert! The mighty future is as nothing, being everything! the past is everything, being nothing! — Charles Lamb

Folks fall down all the time.. The key is to get back up ASAP — Sereda Aleta Dailey

Ray Comfort's got a fabulous film. Oh boy, this is going to cause the halls of academia to have a few conversations around the cafeteria. — Janet Parshall

We didn't have a TV until I was 12. — Jane Hamilton

The reason there are so many gyms in London is because the amount of gay people who are here now. — Karl Pilkington