Yale Quotes
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I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.
— Michael Cerveris
We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.
— Hillary Clinton
But is God a Yale man?
— William F. Buckley Jr.
The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.
— George W. Bush
The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.
— Cass Sunstein
I was off to Yale to be a lesbian
— Judith Butler
A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
— Herman Melville
Yeah, I don't have a Yale degree but my bullshit detector is excellent. Top drawer, even.
— Caroline Kepnes
Hair matters. This is a life lesson Wellesley and Yale Law School failed to instil. Your hair will send significant messages to those around you.
— Hillary Clinton
I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale.
— Peter Beard
Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I am a real New Yorker ... I didn't go to Harvard, I didn't go to Yale ... I rooted for the Yankees; I didn't root for the Boston Red Sox.
— John Catsimatidis
too, making jokes about how old everything was at Yale, how the bathrooms
— Catherine Coulter
I was going to Yale, for crying out loud. How could anyone think I was guilty of murder?
— Eileen Cook
And Yale is November, crisp and energetic.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife.
— George Akerlof
It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people. Do you have to?
— Donald Sterling
I auditioned for 'Girls' the fall after I graduated from Yale. The show has been amazing - as close to perfect as it gets!
— Allison Williams
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
— Taiye Selasi
I applied to Yale, and I got in.
— Mitch Leigh
As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: Elegance is not worth that price.
— John Lewis Gaddis
The motto of Harvard isn't 'nice,' it's truth. The motto of Yale isn't
'light and nice,' it's light and truth. — Scott Kenemore
'light and nice,' it's light and truth. — Scott Kenemore
When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.
— James Rothman
When I left Yale, I was prepared to write anything.
— Mitch Leigh
If Jonah had gone to Yale,
Instead of the gut of a whale,
He'd have a diploma,
A better aroma,
And a nice little condo in Vail. — M.J. McGuire
Instead of the gut of a whale,
He'd have a diploma,
A better aroma,
And a nice little condo in Vail. — M.J. McGuire
I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.
— Harry Frankfurt
Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.
— Robert T. Bakker
The road to success can take a detour. I tell people that I don't care if they came from Yale or jail, it's what you do from today that counts.
— Andy Albright
I did improv at Yale, with the Exit Players. It was great, but they played a little rough.
— Allison Silverman
I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.
— Nathaniel Rich
I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.
— Dianne Wiest
A girl just asked for SAT scores good enough to get her into Yale. I think she was nine.
— Richelle Mead
The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.
— Robert Klein
When I got out of Yale Drama School, I was completely broke.
— Courtney B. Vance
I got accepted at Yale but never went.
— Shia Labeouf
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
I had a very pleasant three years at Yale. I must say I did take it seriously, and consequently it took me a while to get over it.
— Will Davis Campbell
I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy.
— Claire Danes
Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.
— Gaddis Smith
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
— John F. Kennedy
James Pierpont, one of the founders of Yale University.
— Susie J. Pak
Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a ... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.
— Jordana Brewster
In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
— Randall Kennedy
People think because I went to Yale that that implies privilege, and it is a privilege in the sense that it's an incredible opportunity.
— Edward Norton
If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
— Dorothy Parker
The military was providing him (George H.W. Bush) with an education that was not available at Andover or Yale.
— George W. Bush
even the presidents of Harvard and Yale saw the War of Independence as part of God's design for the overthrow of Catholicism.
— Karen Armstrong
So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale.
— Richard Foreman
Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
— William Sloane Coffin Jr.
I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.
— Tom Perrotta
I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg.
— Shia Labeouf
Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.
— James Tobin
I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so when I come to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork.
— Joni Ernst
By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.
— Albert Maltz
Janusz Korczak, Ghetto Diary (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003), p. x. "adhesions,
— Diane Ackerman
Shutting down governments on your computer is just as much as fun as going to a riot at Yale.
— John Waters
I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'
— M. Stanton Evans
I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.
— Sean Hannity
Yale men do not like to be told anything by people who didn't go to Yale. The closest I came to Yale was once I had one of their padlocks.
— George Burns
I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.
— Shia Labeouf
I am a Yale Law School graduate.
— Cory Booker
If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
— Dorothy Parker
I grew up in Brownsville; most of the kids I grew up with went to jail, not Yale. If they had heard of Yale, they thought it was a lock to pick.
— Mitch Leigh
You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot.
— Al Jourgensen
Read Talking With Young Children About Adoption by Susan Fisher, M.D., and Mary Watkins, Ph.D. (Yale University Press, 1995).
— Sherrie Eldridge
I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'
— Gloria Steinem
The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.
— John Knowles