Harvard Quotes
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Harvard Quotes & Sayings
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Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure.
— The Harvard Lampoon
Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Some Harvard guy said that acid would open our minds, pot wouldn't hurt us, and cocaine was benign.
— Chevy Chase
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
— Robert Darnton
The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.
— Cass Sunstein
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
— Herman Melville
In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.
— Catharine MacKinnon
I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.
— Christie Hefner
I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.
— Junot Diaz
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I am a real New Yorker ... I didn't go to Harvard, I didn't go to Yale ... I rooted for the Yankees; I didn't root for the Boston Red Sox.
— John Catsimatidis
I got more out of the farm than Harvard Business School.
— Greg Brenneman
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
— Margaret Atwood
How about we walk back? Through the cemetery?' One thing my mom had taught me is that it's difficult to refuse requests made in italics.
— The Harvard Lampoon
BJ Novak gets the Perseverance Award for graduating from Harvard and being unemployed for the entire plane ride to Los Angeles.
— Andy Kindler
There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.
— Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I'm not the woman president of Harvard, I'm the president of Harvard.
— Drew Gilpin Faust
Disengaged employees are an unfortunate reality in the workplace, and poor leadership is often to blame.
— W.Chan Kim
As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.
— Andrew Weil
My tendency to make awkward situations even more ininappropriate and uncomfortable was such a charming characteristic.
— Olivia Harvard
The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.
— Jack Kerouac
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He eyed his class of Harvard men sternly. "Girls are also human beings," he told them, "a point often overlooked!!"17
— Jill Lepore
We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
— J.K. Rowling
Organizations can't change their culture unless individual employees change their behavior - and changing behavior is hard.
— Keith Ferrazzi
Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.
— P. Chidambaram
I decided to use 'Frown Power.' This is where you socially deter people from being bigoted by frowning at their ignorant remarks.
— The Harvard Lampoon
Her "green light" was Harvard. "But if I don't get into Harvard, I will not die, right? The journey toward the dream is the most important thing.
— Maureen Corrigan
I dwell 'neath the shades of HarvardIn the State of the Sacred Cod,
Where the Lowells speak only to Cabots
And the Cabots speak only to God — Richard Clarke Cabot
Harvard freshmen are smart, interested, and excited, and it's fun hearing their different perspectives and stuff that they will share.
— Lisa Randall
I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person ... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.
— Erich Segal
You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.
— Stephen Fry
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
— Dorothy Parker
More than 50% of students at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton gave the intuitive - incorrect - answer.
— Daniel Kahneman
He made small talk on the way about how he was abandoned as a child and will only rest easy once he is avenged. His name was Tom.
— The Harvard Lampoon
My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard."
— Marianne Moore
I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few ... I just might be smarter than YOU
— Ice-T
Of the Harvard Law Review. In the wake of some modest publicity, I received an advance from a publisher and went
— Barack Obama
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
— Malcolm Forbes
I want to leave all my friends and the sunlight for a small, rainy town.
— The Harvard Lampoon
Not a Harvard-type education, ... Just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education.
— Chris Rock
Everyone Who Makes It Has a Mentor" was the title of the classic 1978 Harvard Business Review
— Ellen A. Ensher
If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.
— Michael Ignatieff
I'll have AB positive', I told Josh when he returned from the dance floor, 'What's it made of? Apples and Bananas?'-Belle Goose — The Harvard Lampoon
Whoever invented spray cheese had to have been a Harvard guy.
— Seth MacFarlane
Harvard was a lovely assisted-living facility from which I'd emerged, like my classmates, stupider and more confident.
— Avi Steinberg
The first stop on this crazy train is Kindergarten Junction, and nobody gets off until it pulls into Harvard Station.
— Maria Semple
Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.
— John Ortberg
Facebook wasn't built out of a Harvard dorm window.
— Eduardo Saverin
It suddenly occurred to me that, after all that frolicking in the meadows, he hadn't kissed me. Was it because of the mold that grew in my sinuses?
— The Harvard Lampoon
even the presidents of Harvard and Yale saw the War of Independence as part of God's design for the overthrow of Catholicism.
— Karen Armstrong
Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.
— Pierre Trudeau
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.
— Anna Quindlen
In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
But that was my big moment: I gave a seminar in the biology department at Harvard! I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go. I
— Richard Feynman
The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960.
— Charles Murray
When guys gnash their teeth and knit their brows in a broody, furious expression, it means they have found their soulmate.
— The Harvard Lampoon
At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.
— Yara Shahidi
Listen' he whispered ferociously, like a ferocious breeze or a very gentle hurricane.
— The Harvard Lampoon
I noticed there was garlic above the doorframe. Edwart held a stake in one hand and a 'Team Jacob' shirt in the other.
— The Harvard Lampoon
It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum.
— Paul Hawken
I really want to go to Harvard; it's just a matter of timing.
— Aubrey Peeples
"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool."
— Calvin Trillin
I had a dejected, brooding expression on my face, and Icould tell from the reflection in the window that it was also
an intriguing expression. — The Harvard Lampoon
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
— M.H. Abrams
I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?
— Clayton M Christensen
I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
— Jack Dangermond
It's tough when markets change and your people within the company don't.
— Harvard Business Review
-and he flew in to her from the clutter of Somerville, the compost heap behind the Harvard Yard.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
(As Harvard's Daniel Gilbert puts it, our future selves often "pay good money to remove the tattoos that we paid good money to get.")
— Brian Christian
