Committees Quotes - Page 2

My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.

Why did we not know that heads of state were being eavesdropped on, spied on? We are the intelligence committee and we didn't know that.

Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.

Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.

a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.

Living movements do not come out of committees.

Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony.

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

We should call editorials what they are: columns written by committees.

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it.

The authorizing committees are free to set their agency budgets, and that includes NASA.

The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead.

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.

the best committee's a committee of one!

If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.

Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.

In every committee of twelve, one will love you and one will betray you.

The American Jewish Committee has pioneered the German-Jewish-American dialogue.

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.

You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.

To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

[O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings.

What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?