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Quotes About Queue

Everything wanting to contribute to my ulcer, Get in line and take a number!
~ James Patterson
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~ James Patterson
We were told by President Obama that in respect of international trade, we would have to get to the back of the queue - not a position that America normally requires the United Kingdom to be in when it comes to other matters, such as the Iraq War.
~ Boris Johnson
Every time I go past a cinema and see a queue out the door, I think, look at those fools, every penny they spend is turned into profits that are used to pass laws imprisoning their own children. Can't they see?
~ Cory Doctorow
If love were a product, the queue at the faulty goods desk would stretch right round the universe and back. It doesn't work properly. The seams come apart and it's full of powdered glass.
~ Charlton
They were stuck in a traffic queue. There was nowhere they could go. They couldn't help but see the melting man.
~ Tim Lebbon
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~ Timothy Egan
But I then thought of how the value of my work as a doctor is measured solely in the value of other people's lives, and that included the people in front of me in the check-out queue.
~ Henry Marsh
These are the real puzzles that will face humanity. There is, he claims, a single theory that will explain not only why the queue you choose at a supermarket is always the slowest but why trains always leave on time when you are late and leave late when you are on time." "There isn't an answer to those," murmured Madeleine doubtfully. "It just happens." "That's what they used to say about lightning," replied Pandora, "and rainbows.
~ Jasper Fforde
If love were a product, the queue at the faulty goods desk would stretch right round the universe and back. It doesn't work properly. The seams come apart and it's full of powdered glass.
~ Charlie Brooker
If somebody had shouted at me, Look out behind you! He's got a gun! I would have replied with no more than a weary mumble, Tell him to take a number and wait.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Many leading studios and production houses in India are in the queue to make original content for Netflix and Amazon Prime as well.
~ Shweta Basu Prasad
Outside, the rain was bucketing down. We ran along the street, laughing at the madness of it all, and burst into Reece's, where we had to queue for the set lunch of soup, chicken and trifle. Reece's had no licence so, when we finally got a table, we toasted ourselves with water. But we didn't care: we were on a high. A full church wedding with all the extras couldn't have made me happier.
~ Cynthia Lennon
When standing in line, I only hate the people in front of me. Everyone behind me is cool.
~ Unknown
Batch size is a tremendously useful tool for reducing queues.
~ Donald G. Reinertsen
No. Standing as close to me as you possibly can, will not make the line move faster.
~ Unknown
The press is more vicious than the populace.... It's hard to disentangle what was present in the national psyche to begin with, and what was added. It does seem peculiarly British to want to destroy eminence -- though often it's an unearned eminence, more plain ubiquity -- and once the boot has been applied, there's a huge queue of people wanting to do the same.
~ Martin Amis
Queuing tips for fans: wrap up and bring food!
~ Niall Horan
There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways , and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead.'
~ Ozzy Osbourne
Welcome to New York,' said the sign. [...] We got our luggage from the carousel and went to queue in the taxi rank outside the arrivals hall. [...] As we waited, this massive yellow car drove by. It must have had nineteen or twenty doors on it. 'I knew the cars here were big,' I slurred, 'but not that big!' 'It's a limousine, you idiot,' said Tony [Iommi].
~ Ozzy Osbourne