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Letter "C" » committee
«Behind closed doors each winter the college admissions committee riffles through the folders of concerto - writing East Coast preppies, football stars from the Corn Belt and ghetto valedictorians.»
Author: Arthur Lubow
| Keywords:
admissions, closed-door, committee, concerto, Corn Belt, East Coast, folder, folders, preppy
«A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.»
Author: Barnett Cocks
| Keywords:
committee, cul, cul de sac, lured, lures, luring, quietly, sac, strangle, strangled, strangles, strangling
«Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.»
«Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.»
Author: Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
(First Lady)
| Keywords:
committee, knowledgeable, provides, The Flame, vigorous
«A Committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but as a group decide that nothing can be done»
Author: Fred Allen
(Comedian)
| Keywords:
as a group, committee, do-nothing, group, group of people, individually
«Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.»
Author: Katharine Whitehorn
| Keywords:
committee
«Committee--a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.»
Author: Milton Berle
| Keywords:
committee
«A camel is a horse designed by a committee»
Author: Sir Alec Issigonis
| About:
Animals
| Keywords:
camel, committee, Committee of, designed, horse
«A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.»
Author: C. Northcote Parkinson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bloom, committee, committees, organic, scattering, structure, wilts
«A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| Keywords:
can-do, committee, Committee of, do in, each week, hour, takes, This Week, week, week after week
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