Yale Quotes - page 3

Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life. (Ben Carson)
I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy. View quote
Claire Danes
Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree. View quote
John F. Kennedy
The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward. View quote
John Knowles
I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds. View quote
Cecily von Ziegesar
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. View quote
Tom Perrotta
I got accepted at Yale but never went. View quote
Shia LaBeouf
I was planning on going to Yale to theater school. View quote
Shia LaBeouf
I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up. View quote
Lev Grossman
A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Women's dieting has become what Yale psychologist Judith Rodin calls a 'normative obsession,' a never-ending passion play given international coverage out of all proportion to the health risks associated with obesity, and using emotive language that does not figure even in discussions of alcohol or tobacco abuse. [...] Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one. (Naomi Wolf)
In that kitty of mine where people call me anpadh (illiterate), I do have a degree from Yale University as well, which I can bring out and show how Yale celebrated my leadership capacities. View quote
Smriti Irani
It was my sophomore year at Yale, going through the food line for dinner, and I wanted a chicken breast, but the way they put it on my plate – all of a sudden it reminded me of my mom's dog – and at that moment I was instantly on the outside of the food chain. I just couldn't be a part of it. It was very personal to me in an instant, all because of a big breast of chicken that was oddly plated and slightly pink and I couldn't do it. At first all I could think to eat was peanut butter and bread, so I put on a bunch of weight, but over the years it's gotten a lot easier because people are much hipper to the fact that a plant based lifestyle is healthier for us. So it's gotten so easy and so delicious to be vegan. View quote
Bellamy Young
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another. View quote
A. Bartlett Giamatti
I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years. View quote
Albert Maltz
I auditioned for 'Girls' the fall after I graduated from Yale. The show has been amazing - as close to perfect as it gets! View quote
Allison Williams
I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like myself, the white-hot Japanese miracle held a similar appeal as Russia in 1920s or Paris in the 1950s. View quote
Bruce Feiler
Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward Tufte and design agency Pentagram have long known and used its power. But now with the rise of the Internet, it's having something of a second birth. View quote
David Mccandless
School is very important; it was very important for me. It gave me an enormous amount of confidence, especially at Yale where we were dealing with all the classics. In dealing with the classics, you are dealing with the very best. View quote
Enrico Colantoni
A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. View quote
Frederick W. Smith
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)
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. View quote
Jordana Brewster
I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature. View quote
Leslie Cockburn
I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling. View quote
Larry Kramer
Having been kept pretty strict in prep schools, I guess I couldn't cope with all the freedom at Yale. I had a wild, wonderful time, got abysmal grades and was bounced out in my freshman year. I then came back the following fall as a repeating freshman, lasted until April and got bounced out again - for the same reason. View quote
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.