Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Munger

Harvard and Yale concentrated with venture capitalists that got the best calls and brainpower. Very few firms made most of the money, and they made it in just a few periods. Everyone else returned between mediocre and lousy. When returns happened, envy rippled through institutional money management. The amount invested in venture capital went up 10 times post-1999. That later money was lost very quickly. It will happen again. I don't know anyone who successfully resists this stuff. It becomes a new orthodoxy.

Donald Sterling

It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people. Do you have to?

A. Bartlett Giamatti

To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I've been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and at Yale. At Yale for a long time. But I'm not a mathematician only. I'm a professor of physics, of economics, a long list. Each element of this list is normal. The combination of these elements is very rare at best.

Albert Maltz

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

Claire Danes

I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy.

Indra Nooyi

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 that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

Kiki Smith

I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off.

Judith Butler

I was off to Yale to be a lesbian

Charles Dickens

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Alan Watts

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

William Shakespeare

Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .

David Hockney

It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.

Edwin Louis Cole

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.

Barbara Walters

If you were a tree, what kind would you be?

Anton Chekhov

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends

Diane Duane

She tried to walk softly and wished the trees wouldn't stare at her so.

Elizabeth McGovern

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.

Jane Austen

my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

Mike Singletary

Nobody intimidates me.

Marvin Hagler

Nothing can intimidate me. I just go out and destruct and destroy....

Michelle Pfeiffer

It never occurs to me that I'd be intimidating to anybody. Maybe I should consider that...

Kevin Steele

Seafood on the grill can be intimidating if you don't know what you are doing. It's really quite easy

Rush Limbaugh

Hillary Clinton doesn't command the screen. She doesn't look intimidating, inviting, engaging.

Tyra Banks

The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.