Yale Quotes · Page 6

Butterfield 8, with its call-girl heroine working her way down the alphabet of men from Amherst to Yale, appeared at a very…

— Camille Paglia

I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature.…

— Lev Grossman

I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.

— Nathaniel Rich

The only thing I have ever been asked [by a pollster] was the age at which I first indulged in oral sex…

— Paul Rudnick

I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You…

— Shia LaBeouf

Health care is too expensive, so the Clinton administration is putting a high-powered coporate lawyer - Hillary - in charge of making…

— P. J. O'Rourke

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my…

— Sonia Sotomayor

I wrote my first play, Uncommon Women and Others, in the hopes of seeing an all-female curtain call in the basement of…

— Wendy Wasserstein

I have never felt out of place in my entire life. But I did at Yale.

— J. D. Vance

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

— Harry Frankfurt

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

Even though I went to Exeter and Yale, and I enjoyed all the trappings of those places, I think at the same…

— Chang-Rae Lee

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 wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East.…

— Winona LaDuke

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

Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to…

— Gloria Trevi

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

— Gaddis Smith

Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing.

— Merrie Spaeth

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

It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite…

— Barney Frank

I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get…

— Indra Nooyi

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.

— Robert T. Bakker

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