Yale Quotes · Page 7

In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'

— Randall Kennedy

I went to Yale and I was a physics and philosophy undergrad, graduated in 2005.

— Justin Kan

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

— Maya Lin

All of my contemporaries in L.A. are all graduates of either Yale, Julliard, Trinity. The best of the bunch come from that.

— Tony Todd

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

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

“Brockhurst, the champion of individualism, was soon launched on his favorite topic. "The great fault of the American nation, which is the…

— Owen Johnson

Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia,…

— David Dinkins

Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps…

— Louis Auchincloss

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

— Cass Sunstein

Other kids are brought up nice and sent to Harvard and Yale. Me? I was brought up like a mushroom.

— Frank Costello

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

— Albert Maltz

A girl just asked for SAT scores good enough to get her into Yale. I think she was nine.

— Richelle Mead

When I left Yale, it was so painful to me. I had worked so hard, gotten so far, and just walked away.

— Eileen Pollack

The tyranny of Harvard and Yale is another thing that transcends this problem of the set point. But what's so striking about…

— Jeffrey Rosen

And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

— Robert Klein

Telling the complete story of VeggieTales would require much more time than we have before us tonight. Since this is Yale, I…

— Phil Vischer

To date, [Wynton] Marsalis has received a total of nine Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize (the first ever awarded to a jazz…

— Randy Sandke

Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of…

— Janet Yellen

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

— Kiki Smith

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

— Allison Williams

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

That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there.

— Kevin Sessums

There's this huge controversy over the fact that President Bush apparently received credit for National Guard service in Alabama in '72 and…

— Jay Leno

Having been kept pretty strict in prep schools, I guess I couldn't cope with all the freedom at Yale. I had a…

— Efrem Zimbalist, Jr