Clubs Quotes

The ideal committee is one with me as chairman and two other members in bed with flu.

If Moses had been a committee the Israelites would still be in Egypt.

A committee of one gets things done.

Joe Ryan

A camel is a horse designed by a committee.

Anonymous

If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

Justice Arthur Goldberg

An institution is the lengthening shadow of one man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.

Richard Harkness

No grand idea was ever born in a conference but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

She called herself Starla, Queen of the Nile, and she had me from the first moment I saw her walk onto that stage. She wore nine-inch-heels and a dress that shone in the multi-colored lighting, glimmering through the haze created by the smoke machines and cigarettes.

Emma Rose Kraus

A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.

I asked, “When the Rebellions were at its peak doing nonsense, everyone was trying to keep away from the area, yet you were going in, why were you going into that area? Supt. Strachan answered quite frankly, Because I was not afraid. I felt like they are my people, they are my color. I don’t know of anyone born after me that I should be afraid of, that was how I felt. I knew I could’ve walk through Strachan’s Corner, sit down and felt at home, and their parents also accepted me. I came to the conclusion; these kids just need someone to show them some attention. They just wanted to belong, that was what a lot of them were looking for. So I said to myself, if I could assist them I would, and that was what I did. Supt. Allerdyce Strachan, the first female officer to rise to the rank of superintendent on the Royal Bahamas Police Force.

There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals. It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubbable men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offenses, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion. My brother was one of the founders, and I have myself found it a very soothing atmosphere.

Arthur Conan Doyle

In this state, the club was The Wizard of Oz made obvious: All the magic that went on here night after night, all the buzz and excitement, was really just a combination of electronics, booze, and chemicals, an illusion for the people who walked through the front doors, a fantasy that allowed them to be whatever they weren't in their day-to-day lives.

J.R. Ward

I've always loved joining clubs--although, in truth, they're usually book clubs." ~Robecca Steam

Gitty Daneshvari

I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.