Committees Quotes

Committees do harm merely by existing.

— Freeman Dyson

The world is proof that God is a committee.

— Bob Stokes

Living movements do not come out of committees.

— John Newman

Most search committees use me.

— Barry Alvarez

The optimum committee has no members.

— Norman Ralph Augustine

I also served on many government committees.

— Leo Baekeland

I don't like committees.

— Sean Payton

the best committee's a committee of one!

— Naomi Mitchison

A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.

— Carl Jung

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.

— John F. Kennedy

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee

— Anonymous

A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee.

— Alec Issigonis

“Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I don't believe in creation by committee. I think it's impossible.

— Bonnie Fuller

Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.

— Anonymous

I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.

— Nancy Pelosi

If you work on network TV, they want to pick your casts, dictate your story and how your show works. It just…

— Judd Apatow

As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily…

— Nic Pizzolatto

The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade…

— Anonymous

For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee,…

— Fred Thompson

“secretive committees responsible for reforming government, overhauling the armed forces, finance”

— Anonymous

If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.

— William Booth

What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only…

— Henry David Thoreau

My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the…

— Leon M. Lederman

When you have the Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee and the political director of the Romney campaign, and their…

— Patrick Caddell

I was the enemy of the major studio. I believed in one man - one film. I believed one man should make…

— Frank Capra

I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets, my opponent has never served on…

— Matt Gonzalez

The Coventry School Committee has been ahead of the curve in addressing the nutrition needs of our students. This committee is an…

— Michael Reeves

One of the great joys this year and the year before has been how all of the people in this body, men…

— Robin Hayes

it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who…

— Jilly Cooper

At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were,…

— Chuck Klosterman

A political action committee trying to raise money for a 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign is selling “Ready for Hillary” champagne glasses and…

— Jimmy Fallon

This bowl has lived up to all the hype that I heard of it. Coaches...that have been here rave about the hospitality,…

— Barry Alvarez

If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him…

— Frank I. Cobb

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless. What is necessary are people like Karajan, [fellow recording producer John] Culshaw…

— Walter Legge

What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing…

— Stella Benson

Carolyn Maloney has extensive - she's shown over and over again her creativity, her determination, her tenacity in fighting for women's rights.…

— Eleanor Smeal

A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this…

— Mike Lofgren

I know Donald's [Trump] very praiseworthy of Vladimir Putin, but Putin is playing a really tough, long game here. And one of…

— Hillary Clinton

That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the…

— Cornelia Otis Skinner