Officers Club Quotes

#1. The Americans called theirs the Officers Club but the Canadians called ours the Officers Mess. The American term was the more honest; ours the more accurate. Drunken officers at play are messy.

R.J. Childerhose

#2. When Jim Irsay called me five years ago, he told me, 'I want you to be our coach and help us win the Super Bowl.' He told me, 'We are going win it the right way. We are going to win it with great guys; win it with class and dignity. We are going to win it in a way that will make Indianapolis proud.'

Tony Dungy

#3. ... The more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears, all our possessions are paled up with new edicts every day, and hung round with gibbets to scare every invader.

Oliver Goldsmith

#4. We must go home to be happy, and our home is not in this world. Here we have nothing to do but our duty.

John Jay

#5. I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

C.S. Lewis

#6. We can't deny that films have a bigger reach. After the popularity of the 'Slumdog Millionaire,' a lot of people started reading Vikas Swarup's 'Q & A'. From a business sense, films are a good tool to increase the number of readers.

Ashwin Sanghi

#7. Life is not always going to be an easy road. There's going to be some bumps. That's what makes a person stronger.

Sheena Binkley

#8. I don't buy into you're on the slag heap when you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.

Joan Collins

#9. Peter Pastmaster and the absurdly youthful colonel of the new force were drawing up a list of suitable officers in Bratts Club.
'Most of war seems to consist of hanging about,' he said. 'Let's at least hang about with our own friends.

Evelyn Waugh

#10. I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?

Les Claypool

#11. I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

Rod Stewart

#12. The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.

Richard Dreyfuss