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Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, and his name was known throughout the world. — David Grann

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

Christ," the Colonel said quite loudly. "That wretched beast, drama, draws nigh. — John Green

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

My chicken ain't no joke. I ain't scared to go up against the Colonel, tastewise. — Flavor Flav

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

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

The colonel had a single vice - whiskey - and he looked forward to the anesthetic burn of the Kentucky bourbon with sublime anticipation. — Greg Iles

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

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

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

You can't handle the truth! - Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men. — Aaron Sorkin

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,

Would Colonel [Bernie] Sanders honeymoon in the Soviet Union? — Joe Biden

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

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

Dead like slipped on a bar of soap or like Colonel Mustard in the library with the lead piping? — Nick Harkaway

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

The food I've liked in my time is American country cookin'. — Colonel Sanders

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

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

I saw you in the library.
With - "
" Colonel Mustard? — Cassandra Clare

The Colonel had wanted a general in the family. Hannah would make a great general. Or dictator. — Melinda Leigh

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird. — Colonel Sanders

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

Colonel Aureliano Buendia could understand only that the secret of good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude- 205 — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

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

Word of advice," the Colonel said from the other side. "Don't tease the zombies. — Peter Watts

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

And if the Colonel thought that calling me his friend would make me stand by him, well, he was right. — John Green

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

Hey, is that you Elvis? I wanna speak to the Colonel. Jump to it, you mother. — Ray Davies

Here lies the body of Colonel Cornell's. The rest of the fellow, I fancy, in hell is. — Mark Hodder

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

Them. Too much activity, right where the colonel — Karl Marlantes

Come on out, Cock-a-Doodle! Come see the Colonel. I got eleven herbs and spices for your ass." Ferrik — Dean Fearce

The truth can't hide, Colonel. Sooner or later it will rise to the top, like oil in water. — Kenneth Eade

Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world. — Colonel Sanders

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

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

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

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

Colonel, I'm giving you a direct order. Eat the fucking cookie. — John Scalzi

Colonel Mustard did it, however the motherfucker did it, his ass is in the hole. — Kristen Ashley

The old adage applied: if God were in the details, Colonel Washington would have been there to greet him upon arrival. — Joseph J. Ellis

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

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

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

Leslie entered the lounge like a taller, studlier version of the Kentucky Fried Chicken colonel. — Douglas Coupland

Paper clip. Ping. Disaster. Colonel Bowie is down. Colonel Bowie is down! The Mexican Army is now leaderless. Capone gloats. — Dean Koontz

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

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

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

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

You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him. — Irvin S. Cobb

We're the perfect combination. Colonel's an old carny, and me, I'm off the wall. — Elvis Presley

The world must never know the things we do here,colonel. Never. Do i make myself clear? — Joel C. Rosenberg

It's never too late for anything,' the colonel said. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.
Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters. — Orson Scott Card

Though Afghans are renowned fighters, Colonel Imam, the officer heading the program, complained that trying to organize them was 'like weighing frogs — Malala Yousafzai

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

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

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

I hit the trifecta on 'Law & Order': I did the original recipe, extra crispy and the Colonel's special. — Thomas Sadoski

As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal. — Ann Coulter

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

Shit travels a long way, but wherever it lands it smells the same. - Colonel Franklin Brickland — Jon Land

Colonel: Tell me what is the T.R.U.T.H, Doctor!
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

The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens. — Charles Taylor Manatt