Quotes for All
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 going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the ‘well-rounded man.’ This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully … Read more
The men–the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale.He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He’s a vivid writer, a literary critic whose … Read more
And I love it when your hair still wet cause you just took a shower. Runnin on a treadmill and only eating salad. Sound so smart like you graduated college, like you went to Yale but you probably went to Howard. Drake
If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised. Dorothy Parker
If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised. Dorothy Parker
I can tell you about Hillary Clinton’s heart. This is a woman, who, after law school, went down to my native South. She went down, after graduating from Yale Law School, to help poor kids, to help disabled kids. Donna Brazile
It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people. Donald Sterling
There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class. Dick Cavett
I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that. Dianne Wiest