Barely Quotes

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

From ages 10 to 12 or so, I barely remember anything.

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.

As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.

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.

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.

From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.

We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings.

I barely leave my cage, my house.

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.

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.