Elite Institution Quotes

There's something awful about Oxford, I think. It's such a little ghetto.

While MIT and the University of Chicago duke it out for the title of nerdiest school, James Franco and Renee Zellweger show up at Harvard to party. Somehow, miracle of miracles, Harvard is 'cool.'

I had an excellent Ivy League education, and it gave me a long view of things.

I had considered MIT a place where brilliant people came.

Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.

I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.

I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever.

I am a Yale Law School graduate.

I went to prep school for one year in Arizona. It was called Orme.

I went to Queen's - a fine university with the proudly stupidest frosh week in the country. This was, when I was there, supposed to be somehow evidence of a higher social class.

Stanford's an amazing, amazing school. It was an extraordinary soccer program.

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.

I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student.

Juilliard. It was a brutal and beautiful experience.

I ended up going to Harvard College, which was about as likely in my neighborhood as going to the moon.

People think because I went to Yale that that implies privilege, and it is a privilege in the sense that it's an incredible opportunity.

I went to Harvard College, grew up in Boston, and went to high school in Boston.

Harvard Law School is great. I'm lucky to be here. It's a really difficult, intense experience.

I have a strong attachment to Harvard.

Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.

Harvard has plenty of people that are way more important than football players.

Like so many other grammar schools that flourished in Britain before they were abolished through a mix of ideology and political folly, Harrow County was a fiercely competitive institution, where all boys were taught to strive for excellence. It was precisely because of this demanding regime that results were so good.

I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.

I was lucky to get to Oxford. I am now an honorary fellow of my old college, which is nice, particularly for a colonial like me.