Zadie Smith Quotes

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.

When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.

I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

It is not hard for me to remember when I was in college. I loved many things about college life: I loved learning. I loved the comradery. And I loved football.

I have a passion for academic life, a passion for students and for the ability and the narrative of a university to make a difference in the world in which they reside.

People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel cut off from the rest of the world. I would forget there were places like London that were not centred round libraries and essays.

I was a good student - a geek, really - editor of the school paper, thought I was going to go to university.

I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it.

All my mates are at university, and it's a life I haven't had a chance to enjoy, so it's great to turn up and sample a bit of it.

I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.

The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to developing my relationship and activities with the students, faculty and friends of the Harvard Business School community.

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

I love college life.

I miss college.

I was a nerdy kid.

I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

I had considered MIT a place where brilliant people came.

As a former college president, I am well aware that every university is a complicated ecosystem, not a linear widget factory.

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

I adored Boston, and I loved school there.

There is no better institute than Hindu College.

I went to Cambridge University and was the first in my family to graduate.

I went to Seattle U. Nice Jesuit school there.

I've had an amazing experience at Syracuse University.