Yale Quotes · Page 3

My favorite play that I did was at Yale. It's called 'The Island.'

— Winston Duke

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

I learned more at The Second City than I did at Yale for all that high tuition.

— Robert Klein

When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so…

— Joshua Prince-Ramus

There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale…

— Dick Cavett

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

— Cass Sunstein

If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least…

— Dorothy Parker

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be…

— Barbra Streisand

I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University,…

— Paul Engle

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid…

— Kip Pardue

At Yale, you can find someone passionate and enthusiastic and involved in just about any issue. For many of us, though, our…

— Jack Schlossberg

I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me.…

— Sonia Sotomayor

I've been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and at Yale. At Yale for a long time. But I'm not a mathematician…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Privilege, if you're very strict, is an immoral and unjust thing to have, but if you've got it you didn't choose to…

— Walker Evans

Those people are seen, I assume, by Larry [Kramer] as writing partly about gay issues and problems, whether it's on the surface…

— Kevin Sessums

[Larry Kramer] even wrote this angry letter to the president of Yale, and in it he said what he said to us,…

— Kevin Sessums

I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like…

— Mary Blakely

I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about…

— Richard Rodriguez

I think it's a Jewish Yale custom. I wasn't aware that other people celebrated Christmas. My wife was very big on Christmas,…

— Kevin Sessums

I auditioned for 'Girls' the fall after I graduated from Yale. The show has been amazing - as close to perfect as…

— Allison Williams

Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into…

— Benno C. Schmidt, Jr

I am a real New Yorker... I didn't go to Harvard, I didn't go to Yale... I rooted for the Yankees; I…

— John Catsimatidis

I went to Yale in 1980 and always through I'd like to come back to South Carolina but imagined I needed to…

— Scott Bessent

I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when…

— Maya Lin

I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions…

— Kiki Smith

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies…

— Carol P. Christ

I grew up in Brownsville; most of the kids I grew up with went to jail, not Yale. If they had heard…

— Mitch Leigh

After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they…

— Leslie Cockburn

And I love it when your hair still wet cause you just took a shower. Runnin on a treadmill and only eating…

— Drake

Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.

— Gaddis Smith

When I graduated [from Yale], I went back to Larry [Kramer]. But when I go to Yale reunions, there are still people…

— Kevin Sessums

Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dangerous job for developing brain cancer?…

— Jimmy Fallon

If you think that [Yale professor James] Saiers is in the greenhouse sceptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of…

— Tom Wigley

“Thus he started his education, that marvelous, growing, aching process whereby a mind develops into a usable instrument with a collection of…

— James A. Michener

I don't think you can figure this stuff out. If you could figure all this stuff out, then all the great filmmakers…

— Dean Devlin

I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de…

— Harry Frankfurt

Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to…

— Gerald R. Ford

Yale Law School was the kind of place you went if you felt you needed to go to law school, maybe, for…

— Robert Reich