Yale Quotes · Page 5

He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it…

— David Nicholls

The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

— John Knowles

I got accepted at Yale but never went.

— Shia LaBeouf

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

— Herman Melville

If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

— Dorothy Parker

And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever…

— Herman Melville

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

Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale…

— Edmund Morgan

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to "truthiness." I am also someone who has been trained in…

— John Hodgman

The benefits of a modest warming would outweigh the costs - by $8.4 billion a year in 1990 dollars by the year…

— Joseph L. Bast

I really worked very hard to bring my voice back because I used to have a good voice, and to try to…

— Meryl Streep

Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor…

— David Halberstam

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 guess I stopped acting when I was 18 and didn't pick it up again until I was 21. That wasn't the…

— Claire Danes

There was a Yale even before Larry [Kramer] and I got there, and there were three designations of students: "white shoe," "brown…

— Kevin Sessums

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

— Dorothy Parker

You hope that the same people are coming back. I love playing with Angela [Bassett]. She's fierce. I met her years and…

— Kathy Bates

“The nation’s forests were being cut faster than they could grow back. In the 1890s, while Aldo was growing up, the United…

— Marybeth Lorbiecki

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

— Robert Reich

I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from…

— Bruce Feiler

Shutting down governments on your computer is just as much as fun as going to a riot at Yale.

— John Waters

I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale.

— Kevin Sessums

As a physics major at Yale in the 1970s, I developed crushes on nearly all my male professors.

— Eileen Pollack

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

I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so when I come to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork.

— Joni Ernst