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Top 30 Colin Cotterill Quotes (2025 Update)

Colin Cotterill Quote: “A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.”

1. “A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “Their version of rock-paper-scissors was elephant – fist, mouse – palm, and ant – little finger. The elephant crushed the mouse, the mouse squashed the ant, and the ant crawled up the elephant’s trunk and paralyzed his brain.”

2. “Their version of rock-paper-scissors was elephant – fist, mouse – palm, and ant – little finger. The elephant crushed the mouse, the mouse squashed the ant, and the ant crawled up the elephant’s trunk and paralyzed his brain.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “I’m left doing all the unskilled labor myself, which is exactly when you realize there’s nothing unskilled about labor.”

3. “I’m left doing all the unskilled labor myself, which is exactly when you realize there’s nothing unskilled about labor.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “The current philosophy was that Buddha was a communist.”

4. “The current philosophy was that Buddha was a communist.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “Sarcasm,” he said, “is like throwing a stick at your enemy when you’ve run out of bullets.” Siri.”

5. “Sarcasm,” he said, “is like throwing a stick at your enemy when you’ve run out of bullets.” Siri.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “His jacket was a little too large and his choice of tie made you think he didn’t have a wife at home, at least not a fully sighted one.”

6. “His jacket was a little too large and his choice of tie made you think he didn’t have a wife at home, at least not a fully sighted one.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “Somchai Asanajinda says as long as your heart can still beat for one, it can always beat for two.”

7. “Somchai Asanajinda says as long as your heart can still beat for one, it can always beat for two.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “Honesty can be a dirty gift.”

8. “Honesty can be a dirty gift.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “Dtui with her laundry-bin build was off the scale. There were no suitors queuing at her door. They wouldn’t have to dig deep to find her kindness and humour, but they didn’t even bring a spade.”

9. “Dtui with her laundry-bin build was off the scale. There were no suitors queuing at her door. They wouldn’t have to dig deep to find her kindness and humour, but they didn’t even bring a spade.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “Chom. Don’t you have an urge to see justice done?” “It’s not nearly as strong as my urge to reach forty with a complete set of limbs.”

10. “Chom. Don’t you have an urge to see justice done?” “It’s not nearly as strong as my urge to reach forty with a complete set of limbs.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “You didn’t have to travel very far out of Vientiane before the road turned to pebbles and potholes. Traveling in a truck was like falling down an endless flight of uneven steps in a coffin.”

11. “You didn’t have to travel very far out of Vientiane before the road turned to pebbles and potholes. Traveling in a truck was like falling down an endless flight of uneven steps in a coffin.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “Very soon he’ll be well enough to roll about in mud, eat worms, and walk aimlessly around Nam Poo Fountain again.’ ‘I’m sure he doesn’t see it as aimless. We all have different goals. His are achievable.”

12. “Very soon he’ll be well enough to roll about in mud, eat worms, and walk aimlessly around Nam Poo Fountain again.’ ‘I’m sure he doesn’t see it as aimless. We all have different goals. His are achievable.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “It takes it out of you, writing with heart. And it was just for me really. Sort of a confirmation to myself that my inner diva can still make love to the keyboard when she’s in the mood. I have to keep her roped and gagged when I’m writing for the newspapers. They don’t like her at all. They don’t want love. They want a quick tryst in a motel room that’s forgotten in a few hours.”

13. “It takes it out of you, writing with heart. And it was just for me really. Sort of a confirmation to myself that my inner diva can still make love to the keyboard when she’s in the mood. I have to keep her roped and gagged when I’m writing for the newspapers. They don’t like her at all. They don’t want love. They want a quick tryst in a motel room that’s forgotten in a few hours.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was in there. He’d put it in almost fifty years before and hadn’t had cause to remove it. But for the life of him he couldn’t find it.”

14. “He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was in there. He’d put it in almost fifty years before and hadn’t had cause to remove it. But for the life of him he couldn’t find it.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “Fear helps us survive. I’ve spent a larger portion of my life being afraid than I have being in control. But, here I am. Forget this escape idea, son. It won’t help you or your family. Play the game. Find a tall tree somewhere. A tree that’s survived all the coups and massacres of history. Go to that tree and dig a hole near its roots and bury your pride there.”

15. “Fear helps us survive. I’ve spent a larger portion of my life being afraid than I have being in control. But, here I am. Forget this escape idea, son. It won’t help you or your family. Play the game. Find a tall tree somewhere. A tree that’s survived all the coups and massacres of history. Go to that tree and dig a hole near its roots and bury your pride there.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “If nothing else, my analysis of George W.’s oratory style had taught me that a sincere countenance and a confident stance were sufficient to distract your audience from the fact that you were talking rubbish.”

16. “If nothing else, my analysis of George W.’s oratory style had taught me that a sincere countenance and a confident stance were sufficient to distract your audience from the fact that you were talking rubbish.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “Watching Siri and Dtui ‘run’ to the administration block would have saddened even the most benevolent of athletic coaches.”

17. “Watching Siri and Dtui ‘run’ to the administration block would have saddened even the most benevolent of athletic coaches.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “You’d then drive your vehicle to a tree, beneath which the examiner sat. He or she would ask you to park. If you managed to do so without knocking over the tree or hitting the examiner, you had a license.”

18. “You’d then drive your vehicle to a tree, beneath which the examiner sat. He or she would ask you to park. If you managed to do so without knocking over the tree or hitting the examiner, you had a license.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “There was a Lao proverb that called teachers the engineers of the soul.”

19. “There was a Lao proverb that called teachers the engineers of the soul.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “I am an advisor to prime ministers and presidents – a man loved and admired by the masses. I deserve my house and, damn it, I should be allowed to decide what I do with it. If I so wish to cover it in ice cream and lick it, that is my prerogative.’ Mr.”

20. “I am an advisor to prime ministers and presidents – a man loved and admired by the masses. I deserve my house and, damn it, I should be allowed to decide what I do with it. If I so wish to cover it in ice cream and lick it, that is my prerogative.’ Mr.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “As Siri walked along that oh-so-noisy riverbank on his way to work, he saw a pelican gliding above the surface of the water. It was a marvelous bird, proud and resourceful, and he imagined how it would taste with a little chili paste and fresh yams. Hungry people made poor environmentalists.”

21. “As Siri walked along that oh-so-noisy riverbank on his way to work, he saw a pelican gliding above the surface of the water. It was a marvelous bird, proud and resourceful, and he imagined how it would taste with a little chili paste and fresh yams. Hungry people made poor environmentalists.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “I don’t know. On my last junket I was caught in the middle of a massacre. The one before that I was tortured and left for dead. Joy and recreation seem to have escaped me somehow.”

22. “I don’t know. On my last junket I was caught in the middle of a massacre. The one before that I was tortured and left for dead. Joy and recreation seem to have escaped me somehow.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “Concentrate on the small things and do them well.”

23. “Concentrate on the small things and do them well.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “He’d come to believe two conflicting ideas with equal conviction: that communism was the only way man could be truly content; and that man, given his selfish ways, could never practice communism with any success. The natural product of these two views was that man could never be content. History, with its procession of disgruntled political idealists, tended to prove him right.”

24. “He’d come to believe two conflicting ideas with equal conviction: that communism was the only way man could be truly content; and that man, given his selfish ways, could never practice communism with any success. The natural product of these two views was that man could never be content. History, with its procession of disgruntled political idealists, tended to prove him right.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “Don’t tell me you’ve offended that one too.” Daeng shook her head. “Have we offended that one?” Siri asked. “Don’t recall,” said Civilai. “Wait. Isn’t he the one whose limousine we filled up with ducks?” “No. That was the Vice-Minister of Agriculture.”

25. “Don’t tell me you’ve offended that one too.” Daeng shook her head. “Have we offended that one?” Siri asked. “Don’t recall,” said Civilai. “Wait. Isn’t he the one whose limousine we filled up with ducks?” “No. That was the Vice-Minister of Agriculture.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “Human beings mistakenly believed alcohol was a disguise that stopped real life from recognizing them. In fact, it was just a temporary hiding hole...”

26. “Human beings mistakenly believed alcohol was a disguise that stopped real life from recognizing them. In fact, it was just a temporary hiding hole...”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “In black and white it had been easy to ignore. But here was a television station with the audacity to send pictures of real red blood into everyone’s home. Our boys in the field were bleeding in color.”

27. “In black and white it had been easy to ignore. But here was a television station with the audacity to send pictures of real red blood into everyone’s home. Our boys in the field were bleeding in color.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “Her cackled speech began like dry branches crackling on a fire. Then, one by one, someone threw fireworks into the flames. It was surprising that such a colorless woman could bang and whoosh and kerplonk with such splendor. We were all exhausted when she finished, and enjoyed the brief silence.”

28. “Her cackled speech began like dry branches crackling on a fire. Then, one by one, someone threw fireworks into the flames. It was surprising that such a colorless woman could bang and whoosh and kerplonk with such splendor. We were all exhausted when she finished, and enjoyed the brief silence.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “Siri’s dream world had always been bizarre. In his childhood, the images that lurked there constantly interrupted his sleep. The same woman who raised him would come to his bed and remind him that these were his dreams inside his head, and nobody had more right to be in there than he. He learned how to walk tall through his nightmares and not be afraid of what happened there.”

29. “Siri’s dream world had always been bizarre. In his childhood, the images that lurked there constantly interrupted his sleep. The same woman who raised him would come to his bed and remind him that these were his dreams inside his head, and nobody had more right to be in there than he. He learned how to walk tall through his nightmares and not be afraid of what happened there.”

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Colin Cotterill Quote: “Defensive driving’ meant we travelled so slowly we were often overtaken by maimed war veterans on tricycles.”

30. “Defensive driving’ meant we travelled so slowly we were often overtaken by maimed war veterans on tricycles.”

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