Colonels Quotes

• A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

  Larry Elder

  Gun, Roots, Demand

  FaceBook post by Larry Elder from Dec 04, 2015

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• I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.

  Marlon Brando

  Dream, Razors, Nightmare

  "Fictional character: Colonel Walter E. Kurtz". "Apocalypse Now", www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Book, Age, Half

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers”

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• Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

  Karel Capek

  Victory, Literature, Ants

  "'And so ad infinitum (The Life of the Insects) : An Entomological Review in Three Acts, a Prologue and an Epilogue " by Karel Capek, Josef Capek, (p. 60), 1936.

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• When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Anchorman, Uniforms

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday.

  Peter Fonda

  Funny, Growing Up, Father

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• The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

  Pamela Anderson

  Kentucky, States, Cruelty

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• I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

  Jack L. Chalker

  Kentucky, Louisiana, Mayors

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• Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone.

  Minnie Pearl

  Redneck, Talking, Breakfast

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• Yes. I was the first female colonel. I enjoyed being that kind of role model for young women watching the show. A woman can be a colonel! A woman can be in charge! Those were new ideas then.

  Erin Gray

  Ideas, Role Models, Female

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• Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

  Philip Kearny

  Fighting, Finding Love, Lovely

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• I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.

  William Eldridge Odom

  War, Frustrated, Vietnam

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• I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

  Garry Kasparov

  Kgb, Enough, Mets

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• I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.

  Garry Kasparov

  Running, Country, Moving

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• The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow.

  Yakubu Gowon

  Military, Ambition, Army

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• In Pakistan anti-American protesters set a Kentucky Fried chicken restaurant on fire. The protesters mistakenly thought they were attacking high-ranking U.S. military official Colonel Sanders.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Military, Fire, Kentucky

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• Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who needs an exit strategy because this pressure will only mount and it will be intensified over the coming days and weeks.

  William Hague

  People, Needs, Pressure

  "The Andrew Marr Show", news.bbc.co.uk. April 24, 2011.

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• You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?

  Colonel Sanders

  Motivational, Work, Passion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Son, we live in a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You!?

  Jack Nicholson

  Wall, Son, Gun

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• The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.

  John Green

  Hipster, Blow, Labyrinth

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.158, Penguin

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• We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Wall, Military, Gun

  "A Few Good Men". www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• You can't handle the truth!

  Jack Nicholson

  Movie, Memorable, Great Year

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• After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.

  John Green

  Blow, Labyrinth, Way

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.158, Penguin

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• He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Crush, Children, Past

  "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel García Márquez, 1967.

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• A worker voting for Mitt Romney is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.

  Richard Trumka

  Voting, Chickens, Workers

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