Committees Quotes

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

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.

We do not need committees but we need commitment. The nation is already reeling under the burden of several committees formed in the last decade.

Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.

the best committee's a committee of one!

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

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.

I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.

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

They've done away with those committees. That shows the success of what the Soviets were able to do in this country.

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.

Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns out.

There's a host of difficult issues here, and that's why when you mentioned at the top of the show that the committees were looking at this, that's where I think we should be going.

Committees are to get everybody together and homogenize their thinking.

Most search committees use me.

A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will spring.

The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.

Any terrorists that have come here and committee acts from 9/11 have come here in some form of a visa.

As debate is rare in the House of Representatives, since nearly all real business is done in the committees, it is very natural that such debate as there is should be very oratorical, should be

The Russians stole from the Democratic National Committee with hacking.

Committees do harm merely by existing.

The information that follows is taken primarily...from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees.

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

[O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings.

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

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

I don't think teachers read the textbooks. And I don't think adoption committees read the textbooks before they adopt them. I think they look at them.

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

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.

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

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

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

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.

Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living.

Let’s form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we’ll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.