Single File Quotes

#1. The network of trenches and artillery below shows itself very clearly for a moment, and Werner feels he is gazing down into the circuitry of an enormous radio, each soldier down there an electron flowing single file down his own electrical path, with no more say in the matter than an electron has.

Anthony Doerr

#2. Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.

Ernst Toller

#3. They were all in line, single file, like an armada from hell. It was a magnificent sight.

Lee Child

#4. Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?

Stephen King

#5. It was my turn to be silent while a small family of moments crossed my path, single file, from the left, sticking their tongues out at me.

Roger Zelazny

#6. I want you out in the hallway, against the far wall in single file, ready to move, in fifteen. Drop your fartsack, Ratliff.

Craig DiLouie

#7. In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?

Warren Hutcherson

#8. Attention, aboard the shuttle! You are under arrest! Surrender immediately! Come out slowly, in single file, with your hands behind your heads! Leave all weapons behind. Comply and your lives will be spared!

Christina Engela

#9. If you're going to walk down the aisle together, best to go single file

Josh Stern

#10. The fairways were so narrow you had to walk down them single file.

Sam Snead

#11. In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

Elinor Wylie

#12. But music didn't make my mother nervous. She was more concerned about the agenda of women who thought it was a good idea to wear pastel, shoulder-padded suits while they all marched single file toward a better tomorrow.

Wayne Gladstone

#13. Away, down below now, single file on the path, comes a woman with four girls in tow, all of them in shirtwaist dresses. Seen from above this way they are pale, doomed blossoms, bound to appeal to your sympathies. Be careful. Later on you'll have to decide what sympathy they deserve.

Barbara Kingsolver

#14. Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.

Kenneth Grahame

#15. The 3.5 billion unreached people on earth would form a single file line that would stretch around the equator 25 times! Can you picture 25 lines of Christless people, trampling endlessly toward hell? Let that vision stay with you day and night.

Larry Stockstill

#16. On this scale, according to John McPhee in Basin and Range, the distance from the fingertips of one hand to the wrist of the other is Precambrian. All of complex life is in one hand, and in a single stroke with a medium-grained nail file you could eradicate human history.

Bill Bryson

#17. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

Orison Swett Marden

#18. They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you.

Mitch Albom

#19. I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.

E.L. James

#20. Life is like a game, there could be many players. If you don't play with them, they'll play with you.

Adolf Hitler

#21. If you feed them, if you feed the children, three square meals a day during the school year, how can you expect them to feed themselves in the summer? Wanton little waifs and serfs dependent on the State. Pure and simple.

Rush Limbaugh

#22. Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.

Daisy Berkowitz

#23. No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.

James S.A. Corey

#24. Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.

Kenneth Tynan

#25. Flipboard is really fun because it's like a digital magazine that lets you curate your favorite things and follow your favorite people. I do Instagram but not Vine. I love Vine, but I don't have time to browse through it. So when I'm on YouTube, I'll look up the 'best of Vine' compilations.

Michelle Phan

#26. Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.

Margaret Mead