Quotes About Queues

#1. Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to have, to have is to hold, and to hold is to show off.

Douglas Rushkoff

#2. When I last looked, there weren't queues of eager guys under 40 hanging outside single ladies' doors begging them to give up work and have their babies. It takes two to tango and the same number, without medical help, to make a child.

Mariella Frostrup

#3. Gone are the days when you simply write a jolly good book and wait for the queues to form. Readers need to be friended, darling. They need to be subscribers. They need to be followers.

Mal Peet

#4. Here is the truth - actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.
- David Foster Wallace, from The Pale King

David Foster Wallace

#5. The sun was up - stuck like half a tinned apricot on a sky awash with all the colours of a fading bruise. Down below the living dead were forming their complaining queues at bus stops.

Helen Hodgman

#6. I watched, along with all of you, as the tens of thousands of our people stood patiently in long queues for many hours. Some sleeping on the open ground overnight waiting to cast this momentous vote.

Nelson Mandela

#7. A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness to form queues.

George Mikes

#8. She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.

Frank Herbert

#9. At the age of twenty, his artistic dreams frustrated, Hitler was a tramp: park benches, soup queues. Given just a little more talent, perhaps, he would have killed himself, not in the bunker, but in a cosy little studio in Klagenfurt.

Martin Amis

#10. Don't get depressed when you read the press about world revolution and social unrest. Try not to panic when you switch on the news and see crooked politicians and unemployment queues.

Ray Davies

#11. It seemed that the pain of their physical illness at times was less than the misery of their poverty ridden existence, the unending wait in the queues and the feeling of hopelessness and abandonment by your own system was enough to rob them of their will power to fight any disease.

Madhu Vajpayee

#12. In product development, our greatest waste is not unproductive engineers, but work products sitting idle in process queues.

Donald G. Reinertsen

#13. Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport.

Orson Scott Card

#14. IQ's are a combination of eyes, and queues. Would you wait in line to see my goat show? Of course you wouldn't, because the line is invisible.

Will Advise

#15. I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight.

Len Goodman

#16. People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

Robert Mugabe

#17. I can see the war that's coming and I can see the after-war, the food-queues and the secret police and the loudspeakers telling you what to think.

George Orwell

#18. Saving the world happens one person at a time. Be at the front of the queue.

Yaya Toure

#19. Hearing things like 'Wake Up' by Lora Logic, or the Raincoats' 'In Love' - that was something I wasn't prepared for. I couldn't hear anything that came before it in the music, and I didn't want to. I was absolutely in love with its out-of-nowhereness.

Greil Marcus

#20. I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.

Steve Prefontaine

#21. I grew up with the idea that once you found yourself with your clothes, why change?

Nicolas Ghesquiere

#22. A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.

Mark Twain

#23. If everyone played the ukulele, the world would be a better place.

Jake Shimabukuro

#24. I do everything via email. Which in turn works as my tickler file and prioritization queue. I start at the top every morning and keep on going until I'm finished. I don't do calls. I don't do meetings.

Mark Cuban

#25. 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

#26. I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.

Billy Connolly

#27. Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.

Calvin Trillin

#28. Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.

Boris Johnson

#29. You are more likely to be treated by a migrant in the NHS than you are to be behind them in the queue.

Liz Kendall

#30. I like the idea of dating, but I'm not dating anyone exclusively, particularly right now. It's hard to be in a relationship unless you're ready to go public with it. So it's a lot easier for me to not be in a relationship. I really don't want that part of my life to be tabloid fodder.

Cory Monteith

#31. My wails of sorrow
are tormenting my soul

Jalaluddin Rumi

#32. Now he knew his way around a ward-and-shield or two. He could chuck a magic missile with the best of them. He was a damn one-man magic-missile crisis.

Lev Grossman

#33. Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it.

Margaret Wise Brown

#34. Our task is a great one, not just because of how far we have fallen. Our task is a great one because of the challenges facing the people we seek to serve.

Johann Lamont

#35. The English are always ready to admire anything so long as they can queue up.

George Mikes

#36. Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

C.S. Lewis