Best Standing In Line Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“...the seemingly widespread conviction of many ordinary Italians that polite behavior such as standing in line is either a Nazi characteristic or a British folly, one that in any event has no real application to this country. Indeed, although things are now gradually changing, left to themselves many Italians appear constitutionally unable to stand in line. “Where do you think you are, in Bulgaria?” a well-dressed man once snarled at me when I protested that he had pushed ahead of me on the cashier’s line at a downtown café.”

Italy Politeness Disorganized Italian Culture Italians Standing In Line Impoliteness British Folly

Book:My Home Sweet Rome: Living (and loving) in Italy's Eternal City

Source: My Home Sweet Rome: Living (and loving) in Italy's Eternal City

“Standing in line to vote! We can do anything!”

Can Do Lines Standing Vote Standing In Line

Author:Corey Hill

“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.”

Life Humans War Facts Spiritual Lines Existence Inspirational Life Standing Tragedy Endless Live Life Life Changing Bores Human Existence Standing In Line

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.”

“On my first day in jail, a three hundred pound man named Porterhouse hit me in the back of the head with a metal tray. I was standing in line for lunch and I didn't see it coming. I went down. When I got up, I turned around and started throwing punches." (James Frey, pg.1)”

Men Firsts Three Lines Hundred Standing Pounds Jail Lunch Throwing Metals Trays Standing In Line Throwing Punches

Book:My Friend Leonard

Source: My Friend Leonard

“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.”

Lines Common Car Figures Standing Starting Hip Hop Hips Hops Peasants Brows Equalizer Moguls Standing In Line

Book:The 39 Clues #2: One False Note

Source: The 39 Clues #2: One False Note

“How will I survive this missing? How do others do it? People die all the time. Every day. Every hour. There are families all over the world staring at beds that are no longer slept in, shoes that are no longer worn. Families that no longer have to buy a particular cereal, a kind of shampoo. There are people everywhere standing in line at the movies, buying curtains, walking dogs, while inside, their hearts are ripping to shreds. For years. For their whole lives. I don't believe time heals. I don't want it to. If I heal, doesn't that mean I've accepted the world without her?”

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“standing in line is a form of oppression”

Form Lines Standing Oppression Standing In Line

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“Amber, you could never embarrass me." "Never?" she asked. "Never." "One time, I yelled across the store to Mom and asked her if she wanted the regular or the super-absorbent tampons. I added that, according to the box, the super-absorbent were for those heavy days. Then I asked her to rate her heaviness on a scale of one to ten." "Okay, you could." "Then while we were standing in line, I asked her why she was buying three boxes of Summer's Eve in the middle of winter." I set her at arm's length. "Wow." "I know, right? I had no idea a person could turn so red.”

Source: The Charley Davidson Series

“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.”

Lines Standing Cute Islands Tickets Standing In Line Ellis Island

Book:The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection

Source: The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection

“I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.”

“Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.”

“Lotto fever hit New York again this week, and like the old saying goes, 'You gotta be in it to win it'... but first, you gotta have a dead end job so pathetic you're willing to kill five hours standing in line for a 1 in 25 million chance.”

Firsts Ends Jobs Winning Hours Lines Chance Millions Five Week New York Willing Standing Funny Inspirational Pathetic Fever Dead Ends Old Saying Standing In Line

Author:Dennis Miller

“My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.”

Ideas Real Lines Magic Mountain Standing Treats Hiking Standing In Line

Author:Alan Rickman

“To be honest with you, I walked into media day (in February at Daytona), and there were two people standing in line to conduct interviews, so from day one of this year, everybody’s kind of written us off.”

People Years Kind Two Lines Written Honest Media Standing Being Honest Interviews February Daytona Standing In Line

Author:Kevin Harvick

“But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.”

Writing I Can Lines Rooms Sitting Standing Chairs Dentist Standing Alone Motels Standing In Line

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“If you’re really in love, you don’t care about all the other girls that are standing in line for you.”

Ifs Care Girl Lines Love You Standing Don't Care Other Girl Standing In Line

Author:Bill Kaulitz

“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.”

School Lines Education Teacher Students Duty Standing Prison Atmosphere Meals Scrutiny Frowning School Lunch Standing In Line

Author: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.'”

Ifs Long Care Kids Reading Names Parent Hours Lines Half Reader Kings Bed Standing Extras Spells Hello Bedtime Half Hours Standing In Line

Author:Nathan Fillion

“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.”

Thinking Children Stills Waiting Lines Sweet Lucky Conflict Standing My Family Meat Forty Goods Cigarette Repercussions Armed Conflict Standing In Line

Author:Eric Burdon

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