Queued Up Quotes

#1. On that very first day, when I queued up, in the thousands, I never expected to get very far

Cher Lloyd

#2. Crowds of lower-caste workers were queued up in front of the monorail station - seven or eight hundred Gamma, Delta and Epsilon men and women, with not more than a dozen faces and statures between them.

Aldous Huxley

#3. When I started at the 'Guardian,' though, I couldn't think of anything we saw eye to eye on, except feminism, and even this would soon be arguable as 'Guardian' writers queued up to drool over Eminem.

Julie Burchill

#4. I couldn't help but feel a sick sadistic joy as I queued up the C4. So many people were going to die today, and so many families were going to be in devastated ruins tomorrow. They would feel what they made me feel.

Quil Carter

#5. It was almost Christmas, and a Santa Claus in a vacant lot was offering to appear in pictures for five dollars. The trim on his suit was mangy, as if it had been dug out of a dumpster, yet young mothers queued ten deep on the sidewalk, holding the hands of kids waiting to get in.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#6. This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

Ben Elton

#7. The crowds that queued for snacks and knick-knacks, the constant stream of passengers recorded by the closed-circuit TVs, were wondrous proof of the sheer variety of human specimens, except that they were presumed to be identically faithless inside, duty-free in every sense of that word.

Michel Faber

#8. The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Spiro T. Agnew

#9. All scientists know of colleagues whose minds are so well equipped with the means of refutation that no new idea has the temerity to seek admittance. Their contribution to science is accordingly very small.

Peter Medawar

#10. I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.

Arthur C. Clarke

#11. It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else

Kwame Nkrumah

#12. When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky.

Joe Sakic

#13. I queued 24 hours to see Coldplay, at Koko in London, at the start of the X&Y tour.

Ben Lovett

#14. When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because the first impressions were so powerful they have stayed with me.

Linda Grant

#15. The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.

William Osler

#16. Amelia changed me. She made me believe in something again. She made me believe in her.

Melyssa Winchester

#17. Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.

Confucius

#18. A guitar is more than just a sound box ... it is part of your soul.

Manuel Velazquez

#19. With respect to the ocean being the heart of our blue planet: We are often asked, 'How much protection is enough?' We can only answer with another question: How much of your heart is worth protecting?

Sylvia Earle

#20. We are, each of us, a multitude. I am not the man I was this morning, nor the man of yesterday. I am a throng of myself queued through time. We are, gentle reader, each a crowd within a crowd.

Josiah Bancroft

#21. I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

Ani DiFranco