Cossacks Quotes

• Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map.

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  Julian Barnes

  Fall   Boys   Yield  

  "Talking It Over". Book by Julian Barnes, books.google.ru. February 23, 2010.

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• I think there are quite a few new Instro/Surf groups that are really great. The Mermen are good and there doing something different. The Space Cossacks, Penetrators, The Fathoms, I really like The Falcons from Canada, Mike Beddoes is a really fine guitar player. I like Nokie Edwards of The Ventures, who gave me a guitar lesson once when we were playing opposite them in 1962 at The Rose Garden Ballroom in Pismo Beach. That's were The Impacts started and got signed to Del Fi in 1962.

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  Merrell Fankhauser

  Beach   Player   Garden  

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• From Russia I didn't bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.

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  Golda Meir

  Memories   Russia   Brutality  

  Interview with Oriana Fallaci, Ms. Magazine, April 1973.

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• My grammy never gave gifts, you know. She was too busy getting raped by Cossacks.

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  Woody Allen

  Annie Hall   Busy   Cossacks  

  Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (2000). “Annie Hall: scénario bilingue”

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• Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them.

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  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army   Light   Troops  

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