Quotes About Waiting In Line

#1. In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd identified me ... and asked me in a whisper ... "Can you describe this?" And I said: "I can."

Anna Akhmatova

#2. The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

Will Rogers

#3. I once recommended [in a San Francisco Chronicle column] that a third arm - a plastic arm - be sewn at the base of the spine so that people could have a tripod to sit on while waiting in line, and it was taken seriously.

Alan Abel

#4. She looked like a woman who had spent her whole life waiting in line.

Richard Russo

#5. Time passed at an accelerated pace. They could be sitting in traffic or talking on the phone or waiting in line for a movie, and their time felt precious, important, worthwhile.

Galt Niederhoffer

#6. what is it she knows/and I have forgotten/that waiting in line/is an opportunity to dance

Alison M. Bailey

#7. I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#8. I was so shy. Instead of waiting in line with other kids at lunch, I'd go to a corner and buy a pretzel and orange juice. I think I had that for lunch the first three years of high school.

Peter Facinelli

#9. At the Apple store, the people waiting in line for the iPhone 6 were trampled by the people waiting for the iPhone 7.

David Letterman

#10. Waiting in line is a great opportunity to meet people, daydream, or play.

Patch Adams

#11. Life is like waiting in line at the grocery store. You wait, you slowly move forward, you pay the price, then you exit unsatisfied and broke.

Erin McCarthy

#12. If you're impatient while waiting for the bus, tell yourself you're doing 'Bus waiting meditation.' If you're standing in a slow line at the drugstore, you're doing 'Waiting in line meditation.' Just saying these words makes me feel very spiritual and high-minded and wise.

Gretchen Rubin

#13. For what might happen if we lift
the codicils on belching?
If sex were permitted in the shopping malls? If people
were allowed to sing arias
from Don Giovanni, loudly and out of tune, waiting in line
at Department of Motor Vehicles?

Lucia Perillo

#14. I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha!

Brian Jacques

#15. I'm not a subscriber to walking into large corporate entities that I have to walk into and be waiting in line, because then I have to stand there.

Mariah Carey

#16. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in the latest styles from Old Navy, and laid him in a shopping cart, because they were waiting in line to get into Walmart.

Adam Kotsko

#17. Because I hate the ocean, theme parks and airplanes, talking with strangers, waiting in line. I'm through with these pills that make me sit still, are you feeling fine? Yes, I feel just fine.

Aurelien Budynek

#18. I don't have to take this abuse from you
I have hundreds of people waiting in line to abuse me!

Bill Murray

#19. If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even waiting in line; frequently these days, while on the phone having been 'put on hold.'

Joyce Carol Oates

#20. Your average person wouldn't recognize a sublime entity if it attempted to fist fuck them while waiting in line for the next Batman sequel.

Janeane Garofalo

#21. Stand-up isn't something I just sit down and start writing - it's ideas you come up with in the shower, while you're driving, waiting in line.

Chris Hardwick

#22. Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

Chuck Palahniuk

#23. Sometimes I forget what I look like and I do something out of character, such as sing shepherd tunes in Aramaic while I'm waiting in line at Starbucks, but the nice bit about living in urban America is that people tend to either ignore eccentrics or move to the suburbs to escape them.

Kevin Hearne

#24. We had more fun waiting in line together at the Department of Motor Vehicles than most couples have on their honeymoons. We gave each other same nickname, so there would be no separation between us. We made goals, vows, promises and dinner together. He read books to me ...

Elizabeth Gilbert

#25. Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.

Andre Leon Talley

#26. I've got so many lawyers waiting in line to see me, you'd think that tobacco was leaking from my breast implants.

Jimmy James

#27. Part of growing up is not waiting in line at a hipster breakfast restaurant. The eggs taste the same across the street. I promise.

Jason Segel

#28. Detective Castilla, your Secret is safe with me." She blinked with surprise, and I groaned. "God, Holden. How long have you been waiting to use that line?"
"About three years."
"And in three years you couldn't find any room for improvment?

Sierra Dean

#29. In China, because China is gaining wealth, rice consumption is way down. Rice is a poor person's food, and they're eating less of it. To wait in line at a fast food chain is cool. And they haven't historically had weight problems. So they don't have this culture of, "I need to lose weight."

Neal Barnard

#30. I had always thought about running for high political office, and I was kind of waiting for the stars to line up. And, you know, they don't hold the door open for you. You kind of have to muscle your way in.

Matt Cartwright

#31. If you think of doing something in New York City, you can be certain that at least two thousand other people have the same thought. And of the two thousand who do, about one thousand will be standing in line waiting to do it.

E.L. Konigsburg

#32. Moving around is good for creativity: the next line of dialogue that you desperately need may well be waiting in the back of the refrigerator or half a mile along your favorite walk.

Will Shetterly

#33. Now you'll have to wait for hours in line for medical care instead of immediately not getting any.

Stephen Colbert

#34. In the end, the photographer shot a close-up of Troy holding a photo of himself waiting in a much more interesting line fifteen years ago.
It was a humiliating setback for them as individuals and for the line as a whole.

Rainbow Rowell

#35. Every woman who vacates a place in the teachers' ranks and enters an unusual line of work, does two excellent things: she makes room for someone waiting for a place and helps to open a new vocation for herself and other women.

Frances E. Willard

#36. When you're standing in line at the airport, and your shoes are off, your belt is off, and your personal belongings are being closely scrutinized, and you're standing with your hands in the air, waiting to be patted down, do you feel protected? I don't. I feel like I'm the enemy.

John McAfee

#37. We had one idiot put a bomb in a shoe, and now everybody's got to take their shoes off? Where's the bra bomber at? I say, if we've gotta wait in line, let's make it fun for everybody.

Alonzo Bodden

#38. I don't ravish women, if that's what you're thinking," he said.
"Oh, no," she said. "I had supposed that women stood in line waiting for you to relieve them of their virtue.

Loretta Chase

#39. There's something about Betty, like she's a great big empty space waiting to suck in trouble. There'll always be a story.... One of these days Betty's going to get up and find a line of starving Africans outside her door. You can depend on it.

Laurie Graham

#40. Always waiting, waiting to go up to the front line, waiting in the trenches with the whizzbags and shells bursting all around you, waiting for the whistle to send you out over the top and across No-Man's-Land, waiting for the bullet that had name on it.

Michael Morpurgo

#41. I'm not very charismatic or telegenic. I feel bad for the kids waiting three hours in line for their book to be signed.

Jeff Kinney

#42. Astronauts are the only kind of celebrity I know who can have a line of people waiting for their autograph, even if the line of people does not know in advance the astronaut's name.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#43. I like my coffee the way I like my women: after waiting impatiently in a long line.

Dana Gould

#44. They'd had this conversation in the cafeteria. They were waiting by the door so that Georgie could casually get in line behind Jay Anselmo, who was two years older than they were, really into No Doubt and competitive car stereos, and who would undoubtedly ignore her. What's

Rainbow Rowell

#45. A path to citizenship for those who are here illegally in my view is unfair to those waiting sometimes a decades in line to come here.

Ted Cruz

#46. There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago.

Lewis Grizzard

#47. The Lord was in line at the pharmacy counter waiting to get His shingles shot.

Joy Williams

#48. I've got the hungries for your love and I'm waiting in your welfare line.

Buck Owens

#49. We were all standing in line waiting for breakfast when one of the caseworkers came in and tap-tap-tap

Christopher Paul Curtis

#50. Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.

Molly Ivins

#51. 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

#52. I am waiting for a man to come in here and fuck me sideways with a beautiful line like that

Patrick Marber

#53. But I was waiting for some magical moment, that would prove to me, forever would be fine. Meanwhile, my first love was standing first in line.

Goapele

#54. There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe and half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe
so they can throw you in jail.

P. J. O'Rourke

#55. She held his stare, waiting for a clue to his intentions - a smile, a nod, even a frown. But he just looked straight at her, his eyes boring holes in her, reaching inside and lighting a fuse line of heat down to her belly. It seemed to last an eternity, that stare.

Maggie LaCroix

#56. 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