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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
And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.
— John Green
Does it say 'Colonel' anywhere on my uniform?
— Jack O'Neill
The Colonel says all attorneys should be named for blood sucking insects so we know up front who we are dealing with.
— Sheila Turnage
She knew why the Colonel had hated talking about the old days. Because the moment you looked back, and began to make your tally, you were done for.
— Philipp Meyer
On my honor, I believe it is characteristic of virtue to have nothing to do with riches!" thought he.
— Honore De Balzac
JEAN
Boy, would I like to see you give some old harpie the three in one!
COLONEL
Don't be vulgar, Jane. Let us be crooked, but never common. — Preston Sturges
Boy, would I like to see you give some old harpie the three in one!
COLONEL
Don't be vulgar, Jane. Let us be crooked, but never common. — Preston Sturges
Well, that's the end of that, I reckon. You know what, Furious?" And he grinned sideways at West. "I'm getting to like you, boy.
— Joe Abercrombie
I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.
— Jack L. Chalker
Scientists are a bunch of romantics.
— Colonel Sanders
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
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
Don't be against things so much as for things.
— Colonel Sanders
Thousands!" Appah Rao's tone mocked the claim. "You may have thousands, Colonel, but the Tippoo has tigers.
— Bernard Cornwell
There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
— Colonel Sanders
The colonel breakfasted with the leisure of a fighter who has been clipped badly, hears four, and knows how to relax truly for five seconds or more.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Colonel Maycomb's misplaced self-confidence and slender sense of direction brought disaster to all who rode with him in the Creek Indian Wars.
— Harper Lee
I can hear the Colonel - no land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth - but it does not make me feel any better.
— Philipp Meyer
Who's my date" the Colonel asked.
*You're girlfriend is your date"
"All right" he said, and then deadpanned "but we don't get along very well — John Green
*You're girlfriend is your date"
"All right" he said, and then deadpanned "but we don't get along very well — John Green
My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.
— Colonel Sanders
The good sense of Colonel
— Jane Austen
I saw you in the library.
With - "
" Colonel Mustard? — Cassandra Clare
With - "
" Colonel Mustard? — Cassandra Clare
It's never too late for anything,' the colonel said.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
Should I feel better if I were to vomit?' asked Jagiello. 'I doubt it,' said Stephen. 'It has done nothing for the Colonel.
— Patrick O'Brian
Though Afghans are renowned fighters, Colonel Imam, the officer heading the program, complained that trying to organize them was 'like weighing frogs
— Malala Yousafzai
She crossed her arms across her chest, and for a moment, Richard thought she looked a lot like her brother, only more like an adorable, angry kitten.
— KaraLynne Mackrory
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 want great men who, when fortune frowns, will not be discouraged. ~Colonel Henry Knox
— David McCullough
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
"You're very kind," said Colonel Jack Hamilton. — Curzio Malaparte
Shit travels a long way, but wherever it lands it smells the same. - Colonel Franklin Brickland
— Jon Land
Colonel. Can she read and write? Peter. Ay, that she can, sir. Colonel. Then she is a dangerous woman.
— Oscar Wilde
The Colonel had wanted a general in the family. Hannah would make a great general. Or dictator.
— Melinda Leigh
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
The only thing that comes for sure is death, colonel
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You know, one good apple can spoil the rest, Colonel Korn concluded with conscious irony.
— Joseph Heller
A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
— Larry Elder
Now I have no reason to play fair with you at all. I'm coming, and I DO NOT come in peace. Colonel Marion Briggs, from the forthcoming Valkeryn Series
— Greig Beck
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
— Karel Capek
The world must never know the things we do here,colonel. Never. Do i make myself clear?
— Joel C. Rosenberg
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've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.
— Colonel Sanders
No, Colonel Kota replied, stepping backwards and flipping open his Kuomintang cigarette case to proffer another cigarette
— Richard Flanagan
Colonel, I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.
— Winfield Scott Hancock
I hit the trifecta on 'Law & Order': I did the original recipe, extra crispy and the Colonel's special.
— Thomas Sadoski
Having been challenged by Colonel Pickering, Higgins: You know, it's almost irresistible. She's so deliciously low. So horribly dirty.
— Rex Harrison
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
Jane caught sight of a very striking Colonel Andrews who, now that she watched him dance, might just be gay.
— Shannon Hale
The old adage applied: if God were in the details, Colonel Washington would have been there to greet him upon arrival.
— Joseph J. Ellis
So when you're in doubt and feeling a little afraid, just do what Colonel Sanders did to his little chicken. He fried it.
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
You can't come in, colonel," she told him. "You may be in command of your war, but I'm in command of my house.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My question right now would be to Colonel Gaddafi, which is: 'What on earth do you think you are doing? Stop it.'
— David Cameron
Now the colonel seemed to grieve for his President again, because he said, This world spits out a beautiful man like he was poison.
— Denis Johnson
Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.
— Colonel Sanders
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
There's something inside of me that makes me want to help people, especially people who are having difficulty of some kind.
— Colonel Sanders
Leslie entered the lounge like a taller, studlier version of the Kentucky Fried Chicken colonel.
— Douglas Coupland
The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.
— Pamela Anderson
I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.
— Colonel Sanders
I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.
— Colonel Sanders
King said, "Come. Sit. Have some more drinks. Colonel Kalinski, will you sort that out? You
— Stephen Baxter
Inside that Colonel, there's a private that needs to be cuddled and held just like the rest of us." Hawkeye
— M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team
He is appointed Lieutenant Colonel, second-in-command of the Twentieth Maine Regiment of Volunteers.
— Jeff Shaara
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
You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him.
— Irvin S. Cobb
Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.
Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters. — Orson Scott Card
Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters. — Orson Scott Card
Paper clip. Ping. Disaster. Colonel Bowie is down. Colonel Bowie is down! The Mexican Army is now leaderless. Capone gloats.
— Dean Koontz
Ignored Truslow, trusting instead in the Colonel's largesse.
— Bernard Cornwell
Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.
— Steve Sheinkin
Greetings, Colonel. Please sit
— Samuel Marquis
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
Colonel: Tell me what is the T.R.U.T.H, Doctor!
Doctor: Total.Reveal.Using.Therapeutic.Hologram — Toba Beta
Doctor: Total.Reveal.Using.Therapeutic.Hologram — Toba Beta
Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to
ask questions were those who never did. — Joseph Heller
ask questions were those who never did. — Joseph Heller
Even Christoph Waltz's character, Colonel Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds', I never judged him.
— Quentin Tarantino
The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens.
— Charles Taylor Manatt
I just say the moral out of my life is don't quit at age 65, maybe your boat hasn't come in yet. Mine hadn't.
— Colonel Sanders
But the colonel said and did nothing as the seconds splintered off the clock and fell like debris on the floor.
— Jonathan Maberry
Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out.
— Colonel Sanders
A lot of learned men think people really are the food they've eaten.
— Colonel Sanders
You can't eat hope,' the woman said.
You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There's an old saying that anyone can make colonel on his own, but it takes a wife to make a general.
— Pat Frank
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
No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.
— Colonel Sanders