The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and… — Yakubu Gowon Copy Share Image
The Colonel's hand was so little, and I grabbed it tight, his cold seeping into me and my warmth into him. 'I… — John Green Copy Share Image
Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots. — Steve Sheinkin Copy Share Image
Hey, is that you Elvis? I wanna speak to the Colonel. Jump to it, you mother. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things. — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel… — Bob Inglis Copy Share Image
We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Even Christoph Waltz's character, Colonel Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds', I never judged him. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! . . . . I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right… — John Chivington Copy Share Image
People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever… — Peter Fonda Copy Share Image
That was my big break [Lonesome Dove]. My first real kind of adult role on something really well-written. It was a spin-off… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
Crawley reached into the pocket of his fancy robe - a dinner jacket, I think it's called. The kind of thing Professer… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
I didn't know whether to trust Alaska, and I'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold one day, sweet the next;… — John Green Copy Share Image
Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
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… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
Call yourself "Colonel" and declare that your fortune was left to you by Dutch burghers from the seventeenth century. Now you're a… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
Admittedly, I do have several bones... whole war fields full of bones, in fact... to pick with organised religion of whatever stripe.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Despite the heat in her face, it felt as if cold needles of ice were running up and down her veins. "What… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Poor Mr. Pickwick! ... If he played a wrong card, Miss Bolo looked a small armoury of daggers; if he stopped to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'd like to have two armies: one for display with lovely guns, tanks, little soldiers, staffs, distinguished and doddering generals, and dear… — Jean Larteguy Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton really transformed herself into a national security expert. She decided to join the Senate Armed Services Committee, and she became… — Michael Tomasky Copy Share Image
I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The… — Anson Mount Copy Share Image
“Another senseless practice, that of appointing honorary colonels-in-chief from the ranks of European royalty, reached ludicrous heights in 1914 when the British… — Alan Royle Copy Share Image
Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and… — John Green Copy Share Image
You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window. I asked the colonel… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
The Colonel led all the cheers. Cornbread!" he screamed. CHICKEN!" the crowd responded. Rice!" PEAS!" And then, all together: "WE GOT HIGHER… — John Green Copy Share Image
My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who needs an exit strategy because this… — William Hague Copy Share Image
Books that have become classicsbooks that have hadtheir day and now get more praise than perusalalways remind me of retired colonels and… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
You know, that might be the answer – to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Angel raised her hand. "Excuse me. What does LTC stand for?" She blinked innocently. "Loving Tender Care?"Gazzy suggested.If our instructor had had… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
You folks been following the big British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? I'm telling you, British Petroleum has put… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
It has cost me years of thought to arrive at certain results, by many believed to be unattainable, for which there are… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us… — John Green Copy Share Image
We should be I hope finally realizing what Vladimir Putin is. He's an old colonel, KGB, apparatchik, and he dreams of the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
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