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

  • 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.

  • 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   Spiritual   War  
    H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.131, Vintage
  • Standing in line to vote! We can do anything!

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

    Writing   Sitting   Lines  
  • 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.

    Summer   Mom   Winter  
    Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.150, St. Martin's Press
  • Take three conscious breaths. Just pause. Let it be a contrast to being all caught up. Let it be like popping a bubble. Let it be just a moment in time, and then go on. Maybe you are on your way to whatever you need to do for the day. You are in your car, or on the bus, or standing in line. But you can still create that gap by taking three conscious breaths and being right there with the immediacy of your experience, right there with whatever you are seeing, with whatever you are doing, with whatever you are feeling.

    Car   Feelings   Three  
    "Take Three Conscious Breaths". www.lionsroar.com. April 2, 2017.
  • standing in line is a form of oppression

    John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.141, Penguin
  • I support legal immigration. I don't support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world.

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

    Girl   Love You   Care  
  • 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.

    Media   Years   Two  
  • I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

  • 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   Lunch   Jail  
    James Frey (2005). “My Friend Leonard”, p.7, Penguin
  • 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.

  • 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?

    Dog   Believe   Heart  
    Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.111, Penguin
  • Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.

    Love   Movie   Romantic  
  • My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.

    Real   Ideas   Hiking  
  • 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.

    Cute   Islands   Lines  
    Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.322, St. Martin's Griffin
  • 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!

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Car   Hip Hop   Moguls  
    Gordon Korman (2011). “The 39 Clues #2: One False Note”, p.94, Scholastic Inc.
  • 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.'

    Kings   Reading   Kids  
    "Nathan Fillion Reveals Why He's Hooked on Books" by David Hochman, parade.com. June 8, 2012.
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