Yale University Quotes:

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

- Angela Bassett

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mother, School, College, Yale University

A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.

- Frederick W. Smith

topic: Ideas, Yale, Order, Crazy Ideas, Predicting

I remembered that throughout my growing up and education and pursuing my dreams and desires, going into acting, and, of course, getting through Yale University and on and on and on, that being average, being mediocre was not an option that you should be proud of.

- Angela Bassett

source: Source: www.hollywood.com

topic: Dream, Growing Up, Yale, Yale University

I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about Renaissance sonnets? The embarrassing truth of the matter was that I was being chosen because Yale University had some peculiar idea about what my skin color or ethnicity signified.

- Richard Rodriguez

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Doors, Ethnicity, Color, Yale University

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'

- John Hodgman

topic: Values, Deconstruction, Literary Theory, Yale University

I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem [New York, NY]. I wanted to know what that was about. I would actually pull people from off of the streets and ask them to come to my studio.

- Kehinde Wiley

topic: New York, Artist, Museums, Residence, Yale University

My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big fan of the works of John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ernst Lubitsch, and Stan Brakhage. I then decided to make my own films!

- Lloyd Kaufman

topic: Yale, Fans, Roommate, Auteur Theory, Auteurs

To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School of Environmental Studies and utterly fail to mirror those values in any way in its investment practices.

- Edward Norton

topic: School, Mirrors, Yale, Alma Mater, Yale University

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

- Carol P. Christ

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Graduation, Religious Studies, Yale University

The benefits of a modest warming would outweigh the costs - by $8.4 billion a year in 1990 dollars by the year 2060, according to Robert Mendelsohn at Yale University - thanks to longer growing seasons, more wood fiber production, lower construction costs, lower mortality rates, and lower rates of morbidity (illness).

- Joseph L. Bast

topic: Yale, Years, Dollars, Morbidity, Yale University