Anyone Quote by Bill Dedman

I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.

— Nora Ephron

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

— Joseph Stiglitz

“It was always embarrassing when professors assigned their own books. Even Madeleine, who found all the reading hard going, could tell that Zipperstein’s contribution…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan…

— Anatoly Chubais

As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was…

— Robert Darnton

I have a B.A. from UCLA. In ethnic studies.

— Ali Wong

American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I…

— Elisabeth Shue

A library is all the university you will ever need.

— Ray Bradbury

“A librarian for president is exactly what this country needs.”

— Richard Castle

Presidents need to be critically studied and analyzed.

— Robert Dallek