Quotes About Lining Up

#1. My childhood was marked by the great fear of nuclear holocaust. We practiced our Civil Defense Drills, lining up in hallways, curled to the floor, but we knew we'd die or, worse, survive only to suffer radiation and slow death.

Julianna Baggott

#2. What I had noticed is that there weren't a lot of women lining up to see a comic book movie, but they were going to line up to see 'The Devil Wears Prada,' which may have been something I wanted to address.

Bryan Singer

#3. Well, it's not like the good guys are lining up to date a cop, and I'm certainly not attracted to the type of useless asshole who'd want to marry a female police officer.

Karin Slaughter

#4. I stared into the man's lifeless eyes. His face was blue, but it could've been from the cold. His body was bloated, but he could've just been fat. None of this explained the crows lining up on the tree branch though. --The Body By the Tree

Yawatta Hosby

#5. Miss Green can call a turd a rose if she wants, but that don't mean people's going to be lining up to smell it.

K. Martin Beckner

#6. People think that the people in Hollywood have some master plan. They just make the movies that people go to see. I think it's that simple. I promise you if people were lining up around the block to see a Bible movie, they'd make Bible movies from now to the end of time.

Alan Arkin

#7. It's so easy to think that this [celebrity] is reality; that people are lining up outside just to write down what I have to say. That's not real; that's weird.

Jennifer Lawrence

#8. So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.

Eddie Vedder

#9. The creator of the universe is lining up things in my favour.

Joel Osteen

#10. Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.

Charles Stross

#11. I'm lining up my troops to go to battle with. Tarver is the man at light heavyweight. He has the credibility of the fans and media, and that's what counts. That's why I am taking this risk, but I am taking it by preparing myself with good people.

Bernard Hopkins

#12. Maybe I was still broken and would always be-but now, at least, I was piecing myself back together, lining up one jagged edge at a time.

Alexandra Bracken

#13. With more and more states legalizing marijuana, companies are lining up to create the first marijuana breathalyzer. Officials say the toughest part is getting stoners to stop trying to inhale off the breathalyzer.

Jimmy Fallon

#14. Canadian writers don't live in gated mansions; you can just talk to them when you see them lining up at the Second Cup.

Russell Smith

#15. If you broke Elena's heart, Star Wars would spill out. This was a holy day for her
it was a cosmic event. This was her planets lining up. (Tatooine, Coruscant, Hoth.)

Rainbow Rowell

#16. It is no fun lining up in your own building - as the hockey players say - and touching the hands of fellow stubbly louts who have just sent you off to the proverbial cabin on the lake.

George Vecsey

#17. who looked like a kid lining up for the teacups at Disneyland. "You're sure we have to go down through the cathedral to get to the hospital?" said Elise.

Mark Frost

#18. He was all too aware of how one's perceptions can start lining up to support a particular conclusion. Once a pattern begins to take shape, however erroneous it might be, the mind unconsciously favors any data points that support it and discounts any that don't.

John Verdon

#19. Don't miss God's fingerprints all over the events, lining up people and circumstances in perfect timing to preserve His people and advance His agenda.

James MacDonald

#20. He was like an addict before a fix. Book freaks are like that, and not just old guys. Look at kids lining up for the latest installment of their favorite books. Stories, they're addictive." Gamache

Louise Penny

#21. The planets are lining up, bringing brighter days.

Michael Jackson

#22. If you look round Hollywood there's no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film.

Tom Hardy

#23. I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.

Beth Broderick

#24. I got the feeling: It's time to do a Marco Polo story. I felt like everything was lining up right because long-form television series were becoming to me like the new great American novel.

John Fusco

#25. I have been stained by you and corrupted. You smelt so unpleasant too, lining up outside doors to buy tickets.

Virginia Woolf

#26. God is not here to be demanded of, begged from, or criticized. He hands out burdens to those who are strong enough to carry them, and I feel profoundly uncomfortable with the idea of lining up with the other invalids and asking for mine to be alleviated.

Ann Napolitano

#27. I AM FREE and all that I desire is lining up to meet me.

Sanjo Jendayi

#28. But how he acts, and what he says, and what he does, and who he is, they don't line up anymore, and the lie is in that not lining up, the lie is in not being what she needs but pretending that he is. No one says a word, and she sees it every minute they have together.

Brad Barkley

#29. A veiled Mind is more enticing than all the nude men lining up the Seine, during Summer.

AainaA-Ridtz

#30. As time goes on you're getting more knowledge of your playbook and football, and you just pick it up a lot easier. Lining up everywhere is just second nature to me now.

Rob Gronkowski

#31. You should go update your Match profile with that information. The ladies will be lining up outside, because nothing screams romance like being held captive in a cage.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#32. Apparently I'm not the only one - we've been hearing that some consumers actually started lining up outside stores days ago in anticipation of the new Nautilus. A few analysts are projecting more than seven or eight million sales in the first week alone.

Alena Graedon

#33. They say life is all about connecting, like that's a good thing. But when brain and eyes are lining up you know different.

Peter Abrahams

#34. The Bush administration said today there is a lot of support for us to attack Iraq. Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, they're all lining up.

Jay Leno

#35. You just go ahead and keep on lining up your fan club because I am always going to be there to keep knocking them down.

Colleen Houck

#36. What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.

Arthur Hertzberg

#37. If the gods weren't long dead, I might accuse them of lining up to take a shit on me.

Luke Scull

#38. I retired once but you've got to have something to retire to and I don't want to do anything. My job is like a well paid hobby, I mean not a hobby but I'm not lining up every morning at the bus queue to go to work. I'm very lucky.

Ozzy Osbourne

#39. We were lining up and counting off nice and easy till you came stumbling through like a doped-up bull,' Minho responded.

James Dashner

#40. His personality gets a suck's ass," Tony continued, nudging the K named kicker. "So why, in all things unfair and unholy, does he get all the good ones lining up outside his door?"
Jude leaned forward. "I can give you an eight inch explanation, Rufello.

Nicole Williams

#41. Great fiction tells unknown truths. Great film goes further. Great film improves Truth. After all, what Truth ever made $40 million in its first weekend of wide release? What Truth sold in forty foreign territories in six hours? Who's lining up to see a sequel to Truth?

Jess Walter

#42. I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.

Oscar Pistorius

#43. Across the nation, thousands of people are lining up in hospital waiting rooms, out the doors, down the steps, around the corners, and behind the hedges, waiting for their inoculations. Here's another idea for avoiding the flu: don't stand outside in the cold for hours around lots of other people.

Jon Stewart

#44. There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out the best in us.

Grete Waitz

#45. Minus the adverts of TV, the special effects of movies, and the trash of the Internet, live theatre is a personal means to connect with viewers. Lining up eye candy, using graphic words, and teasing or enacting bedroom antics is a lowbrow way to go about it.

Tom Jalio

#46. Everyone has days when they say: 'Well, my life isn't exactly lining up with my expectations.' But if life asked you what you had done for it, what would you say?

Paulo Coelho

#47. Near the pool table, two guys straighten from the shots they were lining up.
Dust places his pool stick on the table.

Katie McGarry

#48. I don't know what's wrong with me, but like, the second I stop working, I have a panic attack, so it's good for me to be thinking of projects ahead of time and lining things up.

Katie Aselton

#49. There is greater clarity in the still waters of sadness, something not found in the babbling brooks of more sought after emotions.

Shaun Hick

#50. Zoya picked up a kefta hanging over the back of my chair. It was gold brocade, the sleeves and hem embroidered lavishly in blue, the cuffs marked with jeweled sunbursts. "Sable," she said to me, stroking the lining. "I have never loathed you more.

Leigh Bardugo

#51. To stand up for someone was to stitch your fate into the lining of theirs.

Tom Rob Smith

#52. A shaft of sunlight pierced the dark cluds and she looked up to see a silver lining. It was a sign, she thought.

Diane Grifith

#53. I'm all about empowering women. And by lining them up against the wall and weighing them, surely you are making them feel more like meat than ever - even if it's little meat, if you know what I mean.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#54. "Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge."

Anwar Sadat

#55. Every cloud has a silver lining

John Milton

#56. The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.

Bob Barr

#57. One of my favourite movies is 'Annie Hall' because it's about the silver lining of the break-up.

Mike Birbiglia

#58. They've bought out a condom now for people with premature ejaculation and they've put an anesthetic in the lining that makes you numb and you can last for longer. Or, you can wear it inside out and you don't have to wake anybody up!

Frankie Boyle

#59. I don't want an angry song with no silver lining ending up on my album. Then I'd have to play, or feel obliged to play, that song every night in repetition as a mantra of anger.

Alex Ebert

#60. Seropusly, why do flies line up in the sky every time someone lies? Hovering over they long to take the shit out from where It belongs so They compete to eat it alive.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#61. I refuse to give up when things go wrong because there is always a sliver lining behind the cloud.

Millicent Ashby

#62. I wouldn't call it a silver lining, but with more women speaking up, online harassment is beginning to be taken more seriously.

Anita Sarkeesian