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Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn't die when he should but when he can. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel. -- Anthony Bourdain
Lightened body armor, which the military has made progress on, would mean increased safety and reduced risk for soldiers like the sergeant and the colonel. -- Niki Tsongas
The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone. -- George Bernard Shaw
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
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As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window. I asked the colonel what type of aircraft it was, and he said, "Don't worry about it, Bob. . . if you can see it, it's obsolete." -- Bob Hope
My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something. -- Linda Ellerbee
My chicken ain't no joke. I ain't scared to go up against the Colonel, tastewise. -- Flavor Flav
Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line. -- Philip Kearny
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel. -- Karel Capek
I hit the trifecta on 'Law & Order': I did the original recipe, extra crispy and the Colonel's special. -- Thomas Sadoski
The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol. -- Pamela Anderson
You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a theater of war. -- John Eisenhower
I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away. -- Mac Davis
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 Odom
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
I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat. -- Mac Davis
The food I've liked in my time is American country cookin'. -- Colonel Sanders
I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird. -- Colonel Sanders
A lot of learned men think people really are the food they've eaten. -- Colonel Sanders
There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there. -- Colonel Sanders
No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. -- Colonel Sanders
I've got no idea when I am going to retire. Whenever they pick me up and take me to the funeral home, I guess. -- Colonel Sanders
I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something. -- Colonel Sanders
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Would Colonel [Bernie] Sanders honeymoon in the Soviet Union? -- Joe Biden
BP has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders. -- David Letterman
Seek midday nourishment. Visit memorial acclaimed war hero Colonel Sanders. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I'm not running like Colonel [Bernie] Sanders. All reputations matter. -- Joe Biden
I'm better than P. T. Barnum and Colonel Parker put together. -- Evel Knievel
Even Christoph Waltz's character, Colonel Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds', I never judged him. -- Quentin Tarantino
Colonel Walker, did it ever occur to you that General Jackson is crazy? -- Richard S. Ewell
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As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal. -- Ann Coulter
A worker voting for Mitt Romney is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders, -- Richard Trumka
We're the perfect combination. Colonel's an old carny, and me, I'm off the wall. -- Elvis Presley
You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him. -- Irvin S. Cobb
Hey, is that you Elvis? I wanna speak to the Colonel. Jump to it, you mother. -- Ray Davies
Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did. -- Joseph Heller
I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things. -- Jack L. Chalker
A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders. -- Larry Elder
Colonel, I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field. -- Winfield Scott Hancock
Colonel: Tell me what is the T.R.U.T.H, Doctor!Doctor: Total.Reveal.Using.Therapeutic.Hologram -- Toba Beta
The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens. -- Charles Taylor Manatt
Having been challenged by Colonel Pickering, Higgins: You know, it's almost irresistible. She's so deliciously low. So horribly dirty. -- Rex Harrison
And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers. -- John Green
Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots. -- Steve Sheinkin
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
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
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
My question right now would be to Colonel Gaddafi, which is: 'What on earth do you think you are doing? Stop it.' -- David Cameron
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
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
Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano BuendÃa would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
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
The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn't start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible! -- Robert Kiyosaki
We should be I hope finally realizing what Vladimir Putin is. He's an old colonel, KGB, apparatchik, and he dreams of the restoration of the Russian empire. -- John McCain
I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away." -- Mac Davis
The Colonel's hand was so little, and I grabbed it tight, his cold seeping into me and my warmth into him. 'I memorized the populations,' he said. -- John Green
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
You folks been following the big British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? I'm telling you, British Petroleum has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders. -- David Letterman
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
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
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
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
Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drunk and tired. -- John Green
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She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale. "DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted. Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts." "That's not any better! -- John Green
When Colonel Gadhafi started using his air force against civilians on the ground, we did not hesitate. Then we supported the resolution of the Security Council, which introduced arms embargo for Libya. -- Sergei Lavrov
Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? From a technical perspective. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
And we'll call you...hmmm. Pudge." "Huh?" "Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right. -- John Green
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 Odom
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
There is no moral equivalent between that butcher and thug and KGB colonel Vladimir Putin and the United States of America, the country that Ronald Reagan used to call a shining city on a hill. -- John McCain
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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
The US Army has announced that although it is true they performed mind-destroying drug tests on hundreds of soldiers in the 1960s, none of the victims have been promoted beyond the rank of lieutenant colonel. -- George Carlin
With the newspapers cheering, Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt chose a top-notch regiment of more than 1,250 men. They were first called Teddy's Texas Tarantulas and went through three or four other monikers until Roosevelt's Rough Riders stuck. -- Douglas Brinkley

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