clubs

Be a pro at what you do. No one shows-up to meetings of the Unsuccessful Skydivers Club.

In this state, the club was The Wizard of Oz made obvious: All the magic that went on here night after night, all the buzz and excitement, was really just a combination of electronics, booze, and chemicals, an illusion for the people who walked through the front doors, a fantasy that allowed them to be whatever they weren't in their day-to-day lives.

I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.

I've always loved joining clubs--although, in truth, they're usually book clubs." ~Robecca Steam

The ideal committee is one with me as chairman and two other members in bed with flu.

Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

A committee of one gets things done.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

If Moses had been a committee the Israelites would still be in Egypt.

If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

An institution is the lengthening shadow of one man.

A camel is a horse designed by a committee.

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.

She called herself Starla, Queen of the Nile, and she had me from the first moment I saw her walk onto that stage. She wore nine-inch-heels and a dress that shone in the multi-colored lighting, glimmering through the haze created by the smoke machines and cigarettes.

A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.

I asked, __hen the Rebellions were at its peak doing nonsense, everyone was trying to keep away from the area, yet you were going in, why were you going into that area? Supt. Strachan answered quite frankly, Because I was not afraid. I felt like they are my people, they are my color. I don__ know of anyone born after me that I should be afraid of, that was how I felt. I knew I could__e walk through Strachan__ Corner, sit down and felt at home, and their parents also accepted me. I came to the conclusion; these kids just need someone to show them some attention. They just wanted to belong, that was what a lot of them were looking for. So I said to myself, if I could assist them I would, and that was what I did. Supt. Allerdyce Strachan, the first female officer to rise to the rank of superintendent on the Royal Bahamas Police Force.

There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals. It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubbable men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offenses, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion. My brother was one of the founders, and I have myself found it a very soothing atmosphere.