Sheldonian Quotes & Sayings

Recently in Washington, unfortunately, we have seen examples of the wrong kind of leadership
when politicians choose scorched earth over common ground, when they operate in what I call the 'evidence-free zone,' with ideology trumping everything else. — Hillary Clinton

From those pedestals which intersperse the railing of the Sheldonian, the high grim busts of the Roman Emperors stared down at the fair stranger in the equipage. Zuleika returned their stare with but a casual glance. The inanimate had little charm for her. — Max Beerbohm

In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three. — Donald Hall

For me, the more I don't foolishly waste my life wishing for a better past the more free I am today to create, grow, and love. — Lee L Jampolsky

A woman sees a problem and sets about solving it, not analyzing it. — Toni Sorenson

The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times. — Robert Anton Wilson

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated? — Kristin Scott Thomas

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful. — Astrid Lindgren

Have you ever seen a god laugh? It makes you catch your breath and feel hopeful and shivery and excited all at the same time. That's how it was watching Cal. — Cate Tiernan

I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me. — Jayne Anne Phillips

What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy. — Hiroko Sakai

The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go. — James A. Owen

Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not? — Pat Paulsen