meeting quotes

The Frenchwant to attack, the Americans want to bomb, and the British want to have another meeting.

-Anonymous
  US diplomat commenting on the war in Bosnia. Quoted by William Safire in the NewYork Times, 27  Jul.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

- Djuna Barnes
  'Greenwich Village  As It Is', in Pearson's Magazine, Oct.

I wish the meeting had been as good as the lunch.

-Warren Minor Christopher
  On beginning talks in Beijing with China's Prime Minister. In the NewYork Times,13 Mar.

It's my opinion, sir, that this meeting is drunk, sir!

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^7  Rev Mr Stiggins. Pickwick Papers, ch.33.

It is the only time that I can ever remember the Prime Minister reading out the conclusions of a meeting that did not take place. They were already written before it started.

- Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine
  Of the Cabinet meeting,  Jan, on the Westland affair at which he resigned as Defence Minister.

I cannot tell where you should look for me, if you send out any pinnace to seek me; because I live at the devotion of the wind and seas. And thus fare you well; desiring God to send us a merry meeting in this world, if it be his good will and pleasure.

- SirJames Lancaster
c.1594  Letter to the East India Company written on the homeward voyage when the two English ships ran into storms off the Cape of Good Hope. Lancaster's ship lost her rudder. Unwilling torisk theother ship, Lancaster orderedher captain to sail straight home, taking the letter with him.  A voyage with three tall ships, the Penelope, admirall, the Marchant Royall, vice- admiral, and the Edward Bonaventure, rear-admiral, to the East Indies† Begun By M. George Raymond, in the yeere1591, and performed by M.  James Lancaster; and written from the mouth of Edmund Barker of Ipswich (his lieutenant in the sayd voyage) by M. Richard Hakluyt.

Ma  s que una costumbre, parece como un conjuro para una divinidad que todos desconocemos, que al reunirse varios cubanos†se permanece en un silencio de suspensio  n, hasta que se oye una voz cualquiera que dice o canta algo, que no tiene relacio  n con la convocatoria para la reunio n .

-Jose Lezama Lima
English novelist, painter and critic. He co-founded theVorticist movement   with   Ezra   Pound,   and   remained   an   important experimental    writer    and    painter    between    the    wars.    He became   blind   in   1951,   but   continued   to   write.   His   works include The Apes  of  God  (1930)  and  the  autobiographical The Self Condemned (1954).

Is the world Reform'd since our last meeting?

-Thomas Otway
  Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point.What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

-Bojaxhiu
  A Gift for God,'Carriers of Christ's Love'.