#colonels

I've met enough KGB colonels in my life. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#enough #i #kgb #life #met

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#always #become #books #captains #classics

I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67. ↗

— Gerald Griffin

#army #being #colonels #could #critical

In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#baghdad #colonels #everybody #expensive #go

I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#badly #calculate #colonels #could #country