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Quotes About Queue

Well, I wasn't just kind of standing in a queue at McDonald's and someone sat down and said, 'You're the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie.' I've been working in commercials for ten years.
~ Rupert Sanders
But I'd rather not add to my regrets. The gods know I got a queue of the bastards.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Death does not bow to each person who passes her, does not sweep out her arm respectfully to show the way, speaks no profound words, unlocks no bolts. The key upon her chest is never needed, for the Last Door stands always open. She herds the dead through impatiently, heedless of rank or fame or quality. She has an ever-lengthening queue to get through. A blind procession, inexhaustible.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Well, he had never smoked because he thought it was good for him and, if cancer had any fancy ideas about killing him, it would just have to take its place in the queue.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Patience is inversely proportional to the distance from the front of the queue.
~ John Day
He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.]
~ Eike von Repkow
A slowly moving queue does not move uniformly. Rather, waves of motion pass down the queue. The frequency and amplitude of these waves is inversely related to the speed at which the queue is served.
~ Anthony Stafford Beer
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
~ George Mikes
My children's favourite thing is to con me into buying them ice-cream if there's not too big a queue at our local gelataria, Messina.
~ Catherine Martin
When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.
~ Olivia Williams
Everyone wants to be James Bond, and there's a queue of guys ahead of me - but I will throw my hat into the ring. Bond is such an iconic role, you would have to seriously think how to approach it.
~ David Harewood
Of the secular mysteries to which I wake with fresh and sometimes angry amazement every day, the queue is the second-most baffling. The first is the fan.
~ Howard Jacobson
Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.
~ Calvin Trillin
It was a wonderful experience working with Nagarjuna sir. I mean, I never expected this to happen. For me, who watched his films standing in a queue at theatres, and now sharing the screen with him is a huge thing.
~ Nani
You used to queue for three days and two nights for tickets for Rubinstein. People stayed in the queue for the whole day.
~ Daniel Barenboim
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
~ Robert Benchley
Carlyle, in his French Revolution, has described the French people as distinguished above all others by their faculty of standing in queue. Russia had accustomed herself to the practice, begun in the reign of Nicholas the Blessed as long ago as 1915, and from then continued intermittently until the summer of 1917, when it settled down as the regular order of things.
~ John Reed
Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
When we reached the bus-stop we were a long way behind in the queue and when the bus came it took only half a dozen people. I noticed a group of priests looking down on us from the upper deck and I felt that somehow the Pope and his Dogmas had triumphed after all.
~ Barbara Pym
He said that life boils down to standing in line to get shit dropped on your head. Everyone's got a place in the queue, you can't get out of it, and just when you start to congratulate yourself on surviving your dose of shit, you discover that the line is actually circular.
~ Scott Lynch
He said that life boils down to standing in line to get shit dropped on your head. Everyone's got a place in the queue, you can't get out of it, and just when you start to congratulate yourself on surviving your dose of shit, you discover that the line is actually circular.
~ Scott Lynch
life boils down to standing in line to get shit dropped on your head. Everyone's got a place in the queue, you can't get out of it, and just when you start to congratulate yourself on surviving your dose of shit, you discover that the line is actually circular.
~ Scott Lynch
How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won't be room for us.
~ Malcolm Forbes
he had the ability to appear in the background, even if he was standing at the front of a queue.
~ Markus Zusak