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Queues Quotes

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

George Mikes
Form, Queues, Englishmen
'How to be an Alien' (1946) p. 44

I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.

Catherine Deneuve
Restaurants, Queues, My Friends
Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

Saving the world happens one person at a time. Be at the front of the queue.

Yaya Toure
World, Saving, Queues
"Interview with International Football Star Yaya Touré". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

The English are always ready to admire anything so long as they can queue up.

George Mikes
Long, Queues, Admire

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
Nhs, Migrants, Queues
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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
Glasses, Desks, Queues
"Supposing... It's Time to Smother Romance in Its Sleep". www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2006.

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
Knowing, Becoming, Queues
"Billy Connolly: An Audience with Billy Connolly". www.imdb.com. 1985.

I do everything via email. Which in turn works as my tickler file and prioritization queue. I start at the top every morning and keep on going until I'm finished. I don't do calls. I don't do meetings.

Mark Cuban
Morning, Email, Queues
Interview with Ryan Babikian, elitedaily.com. May 30, 2012.

Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.

Boris Johnson
America, Queues, Trade
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.

Arabella Weir
Cry, Length, Queues
"I don't understand boys - they do things like stand in rivers waiting for fish they know won't come" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2007.

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