"Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place."

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Source : "Asquith". Book by Roy Jenkins, p. 22, 1964.

Benjamin Jowett

#Men Quotes #Air Quotes #Oxford Quotes

“It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.”
“Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.”
“It wasn't until Duotones that I felt my true voice come out.”
“I didn't have a sense of how to dress. I still don't really, but, like, back then, I truly had no sense of how to dress because I wanted to be a tomboy - I thought I was a tomboy, but secretly wanted to be girly, but didn't know the first thing about making myself girly. So I ended up like wearing just like sweatpants to school with, like, long T-shirts that I got on family vacations. And it was just weird.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“I love being naked. I do everything in the nude, even the gardening! We're Cuban, and it's a hot island. Why not go nude?”

Source : "Who are the sexiest women on the planet?". www.mirror.co.uk. February 14, 2010.
“I can be very dry and sarcastic.”
“I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything.”
“But it is funny, because I saw Unbreakable recently and it's a strange movie, I didn't mind it, and it's got some interesting things going on.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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