Barely Quotes

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing.

I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

The discoloration is very minimal. I have not turned blue. The extent of skin discoloration is not even remotely near what the news media are saying. It is barely noticeable.

I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.

Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!

Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.

My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.

Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned.

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.

Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable just four years ago.

People are working harder and harder than ever before and barely staying in place.

Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.

I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all.

I don't fight with people - like, I can barely fight with my husband because I'll just start crying instead.

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.

When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.

When I was in high school, I ran hurdles, but I was really short, so I'd barely clear them. I was pretty quick, but I had little legs, so I had to take 50 steps in between each hurdle.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

Aww, come on man, I can barely handle 6 strings.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

In a city that is barely getting by with its small budget, something like illegal immigration can be the difference from being able to provide the level of public service that people expect.