A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

- Beatrice Wood

It wasn't that Harvard was deliberately trying to overwork me, but I think I had a tendency to take on more things out of enthusiasm than were good for me.

- Eric Maskin

I have a strong attachment to Harvard.

- Eric Maskin

I just thought Harvard sounded great. So let's see if I get in. I didn't really have a big back-up plan.

- Elizabeth Esty

You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.

- Dean Norris

Blueprints are for Harvard MBAs. I dropped out of college.

- Daniel Snyder

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.

- Christina Hoff Sommers

I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.

- Christie Hefner

Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track.

- Betty Shabazz

I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker.

- Alan Dershowitz

When I got to 'Saturday Night Live,' it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.

- Bill Hader

We are making sure that the courses we offer at MITx and HarvardX are quintessential MIT and Harvard courses. They are not watered down. They are not MIT Lite or Harvard Lite. These are hard courses. These are the exact same courses, so the certificate will mean something.

- Anant Agarwal

I moved to Harvard in 1998, and in 2000 the first kidney exchange in the United States was done at a hospital nearby. I started to think, 'Gee, there might be a way where I could help organize it, make it easier for people to find kidneys.'

- Alvin E. Roth

I don't think I could have thought of any place other than Stanford to leave Harvard for.

- Alvin E. Roth

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

- Al Lewis

I really want to go to Harvard; it's just a matter of timing.

- Aubrey Peeples

I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.

- Ajay Naidu

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

- Ann Beattie

As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.

- Andrew Weil