Scholarship Quote by Frances McDormand

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

— Indra Nooyi

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

— Shia LaBeouf

The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were…

— Camille Paglia

So I am hoping my second outing to your wonderful university turns out differently, because it would be highly embarrassing if I said, “Good…

— Shahrukh Khan

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I played Lucky in Waiting for Godot at Yale and it was a thing that Stanislavski talks about: he says you don't need his…

— Sam Waterston

Harvard and Yale concentrated with venture capitalists that got the best calls and brainpower. Very few firms made most of the money, and they…

— Charlie Munger

“A group of ten prisoners from Dachau, I was with them, we hid in the forest to wait for the Americans. The Germans had…

— Sergio Troncoso

Who knows what Yale thought it was getting when it hired Richard Rodriguez? The people who offered me the job thought there was nothing…

— Richard Rodriguez

School is very important; it was very important for me. It gave me an enormous amount of confidence, especially at Yale where we were…

— Enrico Colantoni

Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

One of the reasons why I went to the Yale School of Drama is because I felt that I was acting off of instinct,…

— Lupita Nyong'o