Central Committee Meeting

Famous quotes containing the words committee meeting, central, committee and/or meeting:

    Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
    George F. Will (b. 1941)

    The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
    Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

    The small creatures chirp thinly through the dust, through the night.
    O mother
    What shall I cry?
    We demand a committee, a representative committee, a committee of investigation
    RESIGN RESIGN RESIGN
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    Aunt Sally she was one of the mixed-upest looking persons I ever see; except one, and that was uncle Silas, when he come in, and they told it all to him. It kind of made him drunk, as you may say, and he didn’t know nothing at all the rest of the day, and preached a prayer meeting sermon that night that give him a rattling ruputation, because the oldest man in the world couldn’t a understood it.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)