Top 100 Quotes About Colonel
#1. The Colonel led all the cheers. Cornbread!" he screamed. CHICKEN!" the crowd responded. Rice!" PEAS!" And then, all together: "WE GOT HIGHER SATs." Hip Hip Hip Hooray!" the Colonel cried. YOU'LL BE WORKIN' FOR US SOMEDAY!
John Green
#2. Colonel Henry Blake, a surgeon: "I can paint a barn with someone else's blood. I just can't stand to see my own.
M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team
#3. Mrs. Renfrew, the colonel's widow, was not only unexceptionable in point of breeding, but also interesting on the ground of her complaint, which puzzled the doctors, and seemed clearly a case wherein the fulness of professional knowledge might need the supplement of quackery.
George Eliot
#4. Don't deceive yourself. Everyone is guilty of something, and even the innocent can be a threat. Perhaps it takes small crimes to prevent bigger ones, Colonel West, but it's up to bigger men than us to decide.
Joe Abercrombie
#6. A Guards regiment, eh, Comrade Colonel? These tit-sucking children could not guard a Turkish whorehouse; much less do anything worthwhile inside of it!
While commenting on how unprepared his troops are. -Alekseyev
Tom Clancy
#8. Christ. He was going to hell.
The thought should have helped with the erection. It didn't. He doubted anything would. Not even thoughts of the Colonel pushing him out of an aircraft from six thousand feet without a parachute was going to kill it.
Amy Andrews
#9. Crawley reached into the pocket of his fancy robe - a dinner jacket, I think it's called. The kind of thing Professer Plum would wear before killing Colonel Mustard in the ballroom with the candlestick.
Neal Shusterman
#10. I'm better than P. T. Barnum and Colonel Parker put together.
Evel Knievel
#11. Group Headquarters was alarmed, for there was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to. Colonel
Joseph Heller
#12. Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.
Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.
Orson Scott Card
#13. The colonel had a single vice - whiskey - and he looked forward to the anesthetic burn of the Kentucky bourbon with sublime anticipation.
Greg Iles
#14. I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.
Phil Collins
#15. Colonel. Can she read and write? Peter. Ay, that she can, sir. Colonel. Then she is a dangerous woman.
Oscar Wilde
#16. You can't eat hope,' the woman said.
You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#17. In 'The Birth of a Nation,' Griffith made audiences see the Civil War through his eyes - the eyes of the son of a colonel in the Army of the Confederacy.
Richard Corliss
#18. Washington replied, "I always knew Colonel Hamilton to be a man of superior talents, but never supposed that he had any knowledge of finance." "He knows everything, sir," Morris replied. "To a mind like his nothing comes amiss.
Ron Chernow
#19. We're the perfect combination. Colonel's an old carny, and me, I'm off the wall.
Elvis Presley
#20. Jane caught sight of a very striking Colonel Andrews who, now that she watched him dance, might just be gay.
Shannon Hale
#21. We want great men who, when fortune frowns, will not be discouraged. ~Colonel Henry Knox
David McCullough
#22. 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
#23. I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.
Isaac Marion
#24. We're talking about a revelation here,' Colonel Sanders said, clicking his tongue. 'A revelation leaps over the borders of the everyday. A life without revelation is no life at all. What you need to do is move from reason that observes to reason that acts. that's what critical.'
~page 275
Haruki Murakami
#25. I really do admire you a bit. You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it. - Colonel Korn
Joseph Heller
#26. Christ," the Colonel said quite loudly. "That wretched beast, drama, draws nigh.
John Green
#27. Dead like slipped on a bar of soap or like Colonel Mustard in the library with the lead piping?
Nick Harkaway
#28. The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. Alaska had cigarettes, although the Colonel neglected to ask whether 4. I smoked, which 5. I didn't.
John Green
#29. If we're going to be fucked, Colonel, I prefer to get fucked on my feet instead of on my knees.
John Scalzi
#30. Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.
Agatha Christie
#31. 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
#32. Come on out, Cock-a-Doodle! Come see the Colonel. I got eleven herbs and spices for your ass." Ferrik
Dean Fearce
#33. I study the chessboard and concede defeat.
"You can gain yourself in five moves" says the Colonel. "Worth fighting to the end. In five moves your opponent can err. No war is won or lost until the final battle is over.
Haruki Murakami
#34. In May 2013, my lawyer Dmitry Dinze filed a complaint about the conditions at PC-14 with the prosecutor's office. The deputy head of the colony, Lieutenant Colonel Kupriyanov, instantly made conditions at the camp unbearable.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
#35. Dratted women," the colonel muttered, tossing down his napkin and bolting out of his chair. "They don't know how to listen. They don't know how to obey. If the army were made up of them, we'd all be British subjects." Caleb
Linda Lael Miller
#36. We found it!" Charlotte yelled, as they ran back through the house. "We found it, we found it!"
Eddie, Mr. Mallery, and Colonel Andrews came from separate directions, converging in the front hall. Miss Charming was hopping up and down, her bosom nearly rising to slap her own forehead.
Shannon Hale
#37. I hit the trifecta on 'Law & Order': I did the original recipe, extra crispy and the Colonel's special.
Thomas Sadoski
#38. The colonel, pursued by sinister remorse for having killed a man in an affair of honor, brought everything necessary for recreating the past as far away as possible from his bad memories
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#39. Thousands!" Appah Rao's tone mocked the claim. "You may have thousands, Colonel, but the Tippoo has tigers.
Bernard Cornwell
#40. Almost all Americans would recognize Anchorage, because Anchorage is that part of any city where the city has burst its seams and extruded Colonel Sanders.
John McPhee
#41. Look at the mess we've got ourselves into,' Colonel Aureliano Buendia said at that time, 'just because we invited a gringo to eat some bananas.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#42. He is sharp," admitted the colonel, "but that's all there is to him. He can wiggle and squirm like a snake; but he's got no dignity, and no learnin', and what he don't know about law would make a book bigger than the biggest dictionary you ever saw." "Land's
George W. Ogden
#43. You're the new squadron commander,' Colonel Cathcart had shouted rudely across the railroad ditch to him. 'But don't think it means anything, because it doesn't. All it means is that you're the new squadron commander.
Joseph Heller
#44. A worker voting for Mitt Romney is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders,
Richard Trumka
#45. Colonel L., in whose eyes I was a first-rate Riot Acter or, worse, an intellectual - in his phrase, "someone who reads books" - the most damning appraisal that could be made of a junior lieutenant.
Steven Pressfield
#46. They call him the Colonel, and he's Farley's father." "I'd feel sorry for her, but my family's infinitely worse." I
Victoria Aveyard
#47. Looming visage noble American colonel. Courageous, renown of history, Colonel Sanders, image forever accompanied odor of sacrificial meat. Eternal flame offering wind savory perfume roasted flesh.
Chuck Palahniuk
#48. Cinderella studied the colonel. "Haven't you tired of history, or my voice?" she asked, her tone closer to sincerity than the stiff politeness she usually used. "Not yet," he smirked. Cinderella
K.M. Shea
#49. 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
#50. Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense.
John Green
#51. Word of advice," the Colonel said from the other side. "Don't tease the zombies.
Peter Watts
#52. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Cross it? I'm making plans to destroy the bridge from orbit.
-Colonel Ceeta & Captain Tagon
Howard Tayler
#53. Martin took the same course, thinking as he went, that perhaps the free and independent citizens, who in their moral elevation, owned the colonel for their master, might render better homage to the goddess, Liberty, in nightly dreams upon the oven of a Russian Serf.
Charles Dickens
#54. He was fond of saying, "There is a bravery of the priest as well as the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,
only," he added, "ours must be tranquil.
Victor Hugo
#55. The world must never know the things we do here,colonel. Never. Do i make myself clear?
Joel C. Rosenberg
#56. My chicken ain't no joke. I ain't scared to go up against the Colonel, tastewise.
Flavor Flav
#57. Sitting cross-legged on the rug, puffing on a pipe, wearing a fat gold Rolex on his wrist, Khamenei asked the colonel, If we were to release all of you now, without any conditions, how long would it be before you could begin to supply us again with spare parts for our military forces?
Mark Bowden
#58. Cinderella grimaced, upset with herself and with the Colonel. It wasn't her fault she couldn't stand the slaughter. But there was something shameful about throwing up on the man who was carrying her to safety. "The
K.M. Shea
#59. As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal.
Ann Coulter
#60. Colonel Davis said in that interview, "which meant we had to find something we could charge him with, and that was where we were having real trouble.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
#61. Angel raised her hand. "Excuse me. What does LTC stand for?" She blinked innocently.
"Loving Tender Care?"Gazzy suggested.If our instructor had had lasers for eyes, he would have sliced Gazzy in half.
"Lieutenant colonel," he sputtered.
James Patterson
#62. My joy need not be destroyed by a self-absorbed colonel, a terminally ignorant administrator, the incessant cell phone chatter of a self-important suit on the airplane, or losing sight in one eye. My joy is destroyed by believing that they can affect my joy, thereby making it so.
Natalie Sudman
#63. Even Christoph Waltz's character, Colonel Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds', I never judged him.
Quentin Tarantino
#64. Colonel Walker, did it ever occur to you that General Jackson is crazy?
Richard S. Ewell
#65. Martha Raye slipped up to the colonel and she said, 'Sir, where do we eat?' He said, 'You mess with the men.' 'I know that,' she said, 'but where do we eat?
Elizabeth Berg
#67. It's Major Ketchup in the bathroom with the laser scalpel."
"Hmm." He sliced a delicately herbed spear of asparagus. "Obviously we were meant for each other as I can interpret that as you meaning something more like Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with the candlestick.
J.D. Robb
#68. Like all the other officers at Group Headquarters except Major Danby, Colonel Cathcart was infused with the democratic spirit: he believed that all men were created equal, and he therefore spurned all men outside Group Headquarters with equal fervor.
Joseph Heller
#69. Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.
Steve Sheinkin
#70. Colonel George A. Taylor rallied survivors with a cry, 'Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those who are going to die. Now let's get the hell out of here.
Robert M. Edsel
#71. You know, one good apple can spoil the rest, Colonel Korn concluded with conscious irony.
Joseph Heller
#72. The Colonel was far too firmly married and full of military honours to be a threat to Phryne's virtue, or what remained of it, so she agreed.
Kerry Greenwood
#73. Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.
Bob Inglis
#74. How do you know? Maybe you're just out of the loop, maybe those orthogonal stealthnets are running you the way you think you're running Rakshi. You think everyone on the planet's a puppet except for Colonel Jim Moore?
Peter Watts
#75. The colonel looks eager, but Cal could not seem more reluctant. He keeps still, knowing that any twitch might betray his true feelings. The lack of movement is just as damning. "I'll see what I can come up with," he finally forces out.
Victoria Aveyard
#76. You'll be in good hands with the colonel, you'll see.
The colonel? Okay, I was obviously stuck in a Gone With the Wind theme park. Or maybe a Kentucky Fried Chicken farm.
Or I was simply hallucinating ...
J.R. Rain
#77. A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
Larry Elder
#78. There's an old saying that anyone can make colonel on his own, but it takes a wife to make a general.
Pat Frank
#79. You can't handle the truth! - Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men.
Aaron Sorkin
#81. General..behold the future of weaponry."
"What the hell I am seeing here, Colonel?"
"It's..technologart of ancient weaponry, Sir!"
"It's..what?
Toba Beta
#82. Oh poor Octave, no luck at all, as usual," said Madame Rocher, "he is still with his regiment, still only a captain. Of course, if it hadn't been for this wretched war, he would be at least a colonel by now.
Nancy Mitford
#83. Just when had I become so self-absorbed? I was a form of self-preservation, I realized now; I had resolved that ... I could survive Colonel Wood's cruelty if my heart, my mind, had shrunk to a size designed to absorb my own troubles only.
Melanie Benjamin
#84. 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
#85. Colonel Talbot? he is a very disagreeable person, to be sure. He looks as if he thought no Scottish woman worth the trouble of handing her a cup of tea.
Walter Scott
#87. If you like old cars detective, eastern North Carolina is perfect for you" he said smoothing his tie. "We have oodles of vintage vehicles around here, don't we Colonel? In fact I like to think of them as one of poverty's little perks.
Sheila Turnage
#88. Mark Twain, the thinking man's Colonel Sanders, reputedly said, America is New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
Russell Brand
#89. Lieutenant-Colonel Yorke told me you Torchwood people always take the extreme view. We have a saying in basic training: "If you hear hoof-beats, you look for horses, and not zebras".'
'You don't know the half of it,' Gwen said. 'In my job, if I hear hoof-beats, I expect to see unicorns.
Peter Anghelides
#90. Well, Colonel, there is diplomacy and there is reality. Our ambassador represents diplomacy. I represent reality. And the reality is we don't want you.
Stephen Kinzer
#91. Shit travels a long way, but wherever it lands it smells the same. - Colonel Franklin Brickland
Jon Land
#92. Colonel Jack Jacobs is a good guy. And I see him on occasion.
Donald Trump
#93. Listen to that voice that tells you not to trust someone, even though he's deliciously charming, remember Wickham and Willoughby and all those cads. And give another man a chance, even though he's not your usual type - remember Mr Knightly and Colonel Brandon and all those quiet heroes.
Menna Van Praag
#94. Colonel Mickelson looks like he could defend Fort Hamilton by himself if Staten Island ever declared war and invaded ...
If Jack Nicholson looked like this when he yelled that Tom Cruise couldn't handle the truth, Cruise would have said, Yes, you're right, I'm sorry. My bad.
David Rosenfelt
#95. You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him.
Irvin S. Cobb
#96. Colonel Aureliano Buendia could understand only that the secret of good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude- 205
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#97. The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens.
Charles Taylor Manatt
#98. After all this time, it still seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out - but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it. Chip/Colonel
John Green
#99. The American army," said the Prince of Candia, "has the sweet, warm smell of a blond woman."
"You're very kind," said Colonel Jack Hamilton.
Curzio Malaparte
#100. Sachin Tendulkar has often reminded me of a veteran army colonel who has many medals on his chest to show how he has conquered bowlers all over the world
Allan Donald
