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  • I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's. -- Arabella Weir
  • An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. -- George Mikes
  • I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants. -- Catherine Deneuve
  • I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that. -- Norman MacCaig
  • My children's favourite thing is to con me into buying them ice-cream if there's not too big a queue at our local gelataria, Messina. -- Catherine Martin
  • Celebrity has some amazing advantages, of course it does. You're given an extraordinary power. It's a door-opener. I might not have to queue for things. -- Geri Halliwell
  • Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something. -- Julian Baggini
  • Well, I wasn't just kind of standing in a queue at McDonald's and someone sat down and said, 'You're the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie.' I've been working in commercials for ten years. -- Rupert Sanders
  • That was the crossover line for us, to be able to play that many shows, sell them out real quick and have that tribe queue up outside and still be a mystery to everybody else. -- Peter Garrett
  • When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue. -- Olivia Williams
  • I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office. -- Barry Humphries
  • I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn't increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue. -- Seth Godin
  • Unlike their Western counterparts, Africans take elections very seriously - rising up early to queue patiently in line for hours under the hot sun and cast their ballots. Any misguided attempt to nullify or steal their votes will evoke a strong reaction from them. -- George Ayittey
  • Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open. -- Hanya Yanagihara
  • Online advertising may not be much more successful than an old double-barrel, but - like a good spray of buckshot - it makes up for its lack of accuracy with sheer volume. There are 10 unique ads listed with every Gmail message in your queue, each tied to the message content. And a paying sponsor. -- Douglas Rushkoff
  • For me, Glasgow is all about the people and the spirit of the place. You have enough Gregg's bakers, though, I'll say that. The opening of the 1977 'Star Wars' movie was possibly the only time I've seen a longer queue round the block than in Glasgow for sausage rolls. That was quite an eye-opener. -- Darren Boyd
  • My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, 'OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what it's like.' I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing 'Memory.' I was terrible. Terrible. -- Emilia Clarke
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  • If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government. -- John Major
  • Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals. -- Boris Johnson
  • The English are always ready to admire anything so long as they can queue up. -- George Mikes
  • Everyone queue up!' Malfoy roared to the crowd. 'Harry Potter's giving out signed photos! -- J. K. Rowling
  • Saving the world happens one person at a time. Be at the front of the queue. -- Yaya Toure
  • Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in. -- Calvin Trillin
  • 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
  • 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
  • If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form a proper queue? -- Julian Barnes
  • How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won't be room for us. -- Malcolm Forbes
  • Whenever you look in front and see a lot of people ahead of you, take time to look at the long queue behind you. Let us live a life of contentment. -- Emmanuel Moore Abolo
  • I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue. -- Jeanette Winterson
  • Maybe Gary (Neville) deserves to be chased up a tunnel every now and then - there would be a queue for him, probably. But you have to draw a line eventually. -- Roy Keane
  • I have liked many but loved very few. Yet no-one has been as sweet as you. I'd stand and wait in the world's longest queue. Just for the pleasure of a moment with you. -- Abhijeet Bhattacharya
  • 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
  • Well, I wasnt just kind of standing in a queue at McDonalds and someone sat down and said, Youre the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie. Ive been working in commercials for ten years. -- Rupert Sanders
  • I used to go to the same club every week in my home town, and even there I'd always stay at the back of the queue. I never once assumed I could just walk in. -- Nikki Sanderson
  • When all is said, its atmosphere [England's] still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus, pub or queue than in any other country in which I have lived -- Arthur Koestler
  • A slowly moving queue does not move uniformly. Rather, waves of motion pass down the queue. The frequency and amplitude of these waves is inversely related to the speed at which the queue is served. -- Anthony Stafford Beer
  • One the next corner stood a cinder block restaurant with a hand-painted sign that read CHICKEN & WAFFLES. There was a queue of twenty people outside. "You Americans have the strangest taste. What planet is this? -- Rick Riordan
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