The Colonel QUOTES

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! "

2 " You can't eat hope,' the woman said.
You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied. "

― Gabriel García Márquez , El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

3 " Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can. "

― Gabriel García Márquez , One Hundred Years of Solitude

4 " 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." She wasn't even a person anymore, just flesh rotting, but I loved her present tense. "

5 " Wild creatures' eyes, the colonel said,
Are innocent and fathomless
And when I look at them I see
That they are not aware of me
And oh I find and oh I bless
A comfort in this emptiness
They only see me when they want
To pounce upon me at the hunt;
But in the tame variety
There couches an anxiety
As if they yearned, yet knew not what
They yearned for, nor they yearned for not.
And so my dog would look at me
And it was pitiful to see
Such love and such dependency.
The human heart is not at ease
With animals that look like these. "

― Stevie Smith

6 " 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. "

7 " No such private nights of ecstasy or hushed-up drinking and sex orgies ever occurred. They might have occurred if either General Dreedle or General Peckem had once evinced an interest in taking part in orgies with him, but neither ever did, and the colonel was certainly not going to waste his time and energy making love to beautiful women unless there was something in it for him. "

― Joseph Heller , Catch-22

8 " Once he gets to the fort the colonel turns to John Wayne and says, " I did see a few Indians on the way over here." And John Wayne, with this really cool look on his face, replies, 'Don't worry. If you were able to spot some Indians, that means there weren't any there.' I don't remember the actual lines, but it went something like that. Do you get what he means? "

9 " 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 , Martin Chuzzlewit

10 " 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! "

11 " 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. "

12 " Is it true, then, Mayor?" Grandmother Miss Lacy Thornton warbled from the end of the counter. " Is Jesse Tatum officially dead?" " Dead is such an unflattering term," he said, sliding onto his stool. " I prefer to think of Jesse as... passe." The Azalea Women gasped." What's passe mean?" Tinks Williams asked the Colonel, his voice low." Dead," the Colonel said, refilling Tink's iced tea. "

13 " They dig holes from time to time,' the Colonel explains. 'It is probably for them what chess is for me. It has no special meaning, does not transport them anywhere. All of us dig at our own pure holes. We have nothing to achieve by our activities, nowhere to get to. Is there not something marvelous about this? We hurt no one and no one gets hurt. No victory, no defeat. "

― Haruki Murakami , Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

14 " Word of advice,” the Colonel said from the other side. “Don’t tease the zombies. "

15 " 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. "