Famous quotes containing the words village and/or committee:
“You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)
“The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a year less than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1953)