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My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line. -- Alan Rickman
Wherever you go at SXSW, there you are standing in line. Or watching other people stand in line. -- Kara Swisher
But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair. -- Augusten Burroughs
I support legal immigration. I don't support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world. -- Heather Wilson
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. -- H. L. Mencken
Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid! -- Harold H. Greene
On February 7, 2.2 million Haitians went to the polls and exercised their constitutional right to select a leader. They went by foot, by tap tap and other forms of transportation, traveling hours and standing in line for almost a day to get to their polling places. -- Mark Foley
I try to satisfy the desires that people have to have their books personalized. That's a value, or feature, of bibliophilia that may vanish. How do you get your e-book signed? The idea of people standing in line to get my signature in their book, it's hard to turn them away. -- Chris Van Allsburg
I love getting attention, just like a child loves it, and it's never worn off. So when people say, oh the book signings go on, why would I shoo away someone who's giving me attention? What part of standing in line for 10 hours to say how much they love you is bad to you? -- David Sedaris
I've met men who've stood in long lines on my book tours, and they've said things like, 'I've read your books and they've changed the direction in my life, and I want to thank you.' I think they're standing in line for their wife or their mother or their sweetheart or somebody, but no. -- Beverly Lewis
I have a deep, scratchy voice. Boys would call me Froggy, and my father would often tell me to shut my 'big bazoo.' I remember standing in line for confession. After I walked out, the other kids were like, 'You punched your sister in the face?' Because of my voice, my confession was like speaking into a loudspeaker. -- Siobhan Fallon Hogan
I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had rationing. We couldn't buy meat, we couldn't buy pleasurable goods like cigarettes and sweets. I didn't starve - my family were lucky - but I knew what it was like standing in line waiting for foodstuffs. -- Eric Burdon
I was in line at a store and there was a little girl, she was standing in line next to me and some other girls had come up to me and recognized me from 'Pretty Little Liars.' When they walked away, this girl was staring at me, and her eyes got so big, and she started crying. It was, like, the cutest thing. -- Bianca Lawson
Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.' -- Nathan Fillion
standing in line is a form of oppression -- John Green
I am reminded that while New Yorkers say "standing on line," the rest of the English-speaking world says "standing in line. -- Jeffrey Steingarten
If youâ??re really in love, you donâ??t care about all the other girls that are standing in line for you. -- Bill Kaulitz
He looked like someone with a steerage ticket on the titanic. Somebody who'd be standing in line at Ellis Island. Undiluted and old-blooded. Also cute. -- Rainbow Rowell
It has its perks, being Mrs. Chancellor, and if I have to use it, by golly, I'll use it. I'm through standing in lines at my age. -- Jeanne Cooper
Nellie's brow furrowed. "The great Mr. Hip-Hop Mogul standing in line with the common peasants? How do you figure that?" Dan grinned. "I'm starting to dig this 'no cars' thing. It's a great equalizer. -- Gordon Korman
The atmosphere [in the school lunchroom] is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under the frowning scrutiny of teachers standing around on duty, during their meal-they are not supposed to talk while standing in line, though this rule is only sporadically enforced. -- Edgar Friedenberg
Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'" -- Nathan Fillion
I can remember standing in a W.P.A. line with a gunny sack, and I remember having to buy chocolate milk instead of white because it was one cent cheaper. -- Jerry Buss
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
When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees. -- Trey Anastasio
There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful. -- Eddie Vedder
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
Many, including the Canadian and U.S. governments, try to provide family support while also maintaining a hard line about further fuelling terrorism and hostage-taking through ransom payments ... Still, try telling that to a mother, or a father, or a husband or wife caught in the powerless agony of standing by. -- Amanda Lindhout
Standing in line to vote! We can do anything! -- Corey Hill
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot -- Stephen Wright
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright
I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards. -- Alberto Salazar
The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line. -- Orlando Aloysius Battista
What is an obstacle to a man who constantly envisions himself standing at the victory line of his dream? -- Edmond Mbiaka
I always had a trunk full of good reviews. I'd get magnificent reviews, and I'd be standing out on the unemployment line! -- Diane Ladd
Standing in the line at the food court, I try to be myself. But I forget how I usually stand when I'm myself. -- Susane Colasanti
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion. -- Clarence Darrow
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
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
Standing in a two-hour line makes people worry that they're not living in a democratic nation. People stand in line for two houres and they go over the edge. -- David Sedaris

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