Barely Quotes

#1. No one can reason with another person so furious she can barely see straight. Well.

Alexandra Bracken

#2. Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced and my heart soared with stories.

Paula McLain

#3. He couldn't put on a coaching session to save his life. I've spoken to people about him and he can barely lay out cones.

Joey Barton

#4. By the tie I arrived at the clinic I was typically so demoralized I could barely stand. I was twenty-three years old and I looked like Nixon resigning the presidency.

Daniel Smith

#5. Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.

Noam Chomsky

#6. Dairy laid a hand gently on her flank. "Captain Loch showed me the difference between is and should. She shouldn't be gone but she is..." She was still trembling. Tiny whiskers of breath barely made puffs of steam in the cold morning air. "But she shouldn't be. Someone needs to start should.

Patrick Weekes

#7. Watch your mouth,' he cautions me. 'I've told you before, Ava. I'll do whatever it takes.'
'For what?' My voice is barely a whisper.
'To keep you

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#8. My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.

O.J. Simpson

#9. A boy who wants me so bad he can barely stand it.

Jillian Dodd

#10. Gay life is this object out there that's waiting to be written about. A lot of people think we've exhausted all the themes of gay fiction, but we've just barely touched on them.

Edmund White

#11. It's hard t want to fit in and not be able to," his voice came barely above a whisper. "They make us feel like it's easier to lie than be truthful. Easier to hide than be seen. Make us feel like we did something wrong to not be like them. Like we made a conscious choice".

Dan Skinner

#12. They say that the mind cannot remember pain; I say it barely matters, for even if the physical sensation is lost, our recollection of the terror that surrounds it is perfect.

Claire North

#13. I'm barely at home enough to enjoy the simple lifestyle that I want to live.

Justin Vernon

#14. I just staunchly bought one frame during a two-for-one frame sale and barely left the store alive.

Dana Gould

#15. I don't think human beings were meant to know so much about the world. All this time and all this
exposure to every conceivable aspect of life - wisdom so rarely enters the picture. We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then
we become bitter and isolated as we age.

Douglas Coupland

#16. I can barely walk barefoot. What made you think these walking stilts of death would be a good idea?" I chuckle out.

C.M. Owens

#17. I've wanted this for so long."
Emmaline thought that a lovely thing to say. "We barely know each other."
"No. We've known each other forever, my dearest one, always known the other of us was out there somewhere in the world, waiting. We only just happened to meet today.

Kasey Michaels

#18. What's wrong, little sis? You look upset."
She could barely catch her breath. "Cracked ... my ... nail polish slapping your ... worthless face. See?" She showed him her finger - just one of them.
"Cute" He snorted.

Cassandra Clare

#19. Sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another ...

Jose Saramago

#20. I thought for sure I'd lost you"
Lost me?
I stare into the fire without seeing it. "I thought I'd lost you too". The words barely come out.

Susan Ee

#21. If I am a fool then it is no misfortune, for then only one more fool will wander this Earth. Amongst the millions of mentally deranged it would barely be noticed. But what if I am not a fool, and that science itself has erred? Then the tragedy is incalculable!

Viktor Schauberger

#22. Sexism justifies itself by commandeering our logic and, quietly, the limits of what is constrict our ideas of what should be. Misogyny comes to taste like air, feel like gravity: so common we barely notice it, so entrenched it's hard to conceive of a world without it. So

Alexandra Brodsky

#23. You're bruised, as ugly as one of your Cyclops, and I can barely stand to look at you. - Duncan to Madelyne.

Julie Garwood

#24. I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.

Paul Auster

#25. I can remember - barely - when Elton John was still a good songwriter, or at least capable of writing good songs.

Terry Teachout

#26. Until you've lived through all that," he said, "don't you ever complain about what we have. Because to me ... to me ... " He choked on the words, but he barely paused before he continued. "This - us - is heaven. I can't bear to hear you say otherwise.

Julia Quinn

#27. Langdon whispered to Vittoria. 'Ever fire anything other than a tranquilizer gun?'
'Don't you trust me?'
'Trust you? I barely know you.'
Vittoria frowned. 'And here I thought we were newly-weds.

Dan Brown

#28. I barely finish one pre-collection before I must start on another. Sales start, but I am already elsewhere creatively. The men's show is being prepared, but we also need to think about accessories, perfumes and other items. In sum, I never stop.

Alber Elbaz

#29. I have a terrible memory of my own past. I can barely remember my childhood. I have few memories from college and law school - though once I got married, I got the advantage of being able to consult my husband's memory.

Gretchen Rubin

#30. I know you've been trying to get a hold of me, but I can barely get a hold of myself

The Weeknd

#31. Barely awake and already starting in with the questions.You were a lot easier to take when you were sleeping.

Lara Adrian

#32. As his hands moved to his trousers, he saw that she was pulling the bedsheets over her. "Don't," he said, barely recognizing his own voice. Her eyes met his, and he said, "I'll be your blanket".

Julia Quinn

#33. My understanding of incarnation is that we are not served by getting away from the grubbiness of suffering. Sometimes we feel that we are barely pulling ourselves forward through a tight tunnel on badly scraped-up elbows. But we do come out the other side, exhausted and changed.

Anne Lamott

#34. I barely knew anything about this girl. I only knew that when I was with her, the entire world felt different. It was like this forest was our own secret land, and here, we could be anything we wanted to be. Anything at all.

Mia Sheridan

#35. We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.

Richard Brautigan

#36. I've got me a fascinating, beautiful woman I'm falling for. Falling hard." "Quick work." "In the blood. My mama and daddy barely did more than look at each other, and that was that.

Nora Roberts

#37. Even as Solomon tried to understand how he got that, his dad looked at him in the dim flicker of light. "They cut his tongue out," he barely whispered to him. "We need to go." Jimmy

Lucian Bane

#38. ... Any talent - whether to write songs or to write novels...came with the obligation to use it to the fullest of one's ability, with a fierce commitment barely distinguishable from neurotic obsession. ... In fact...commitment to the point of obsession wasn't merely an obligation but a necessity...

Dean Koontz

#39. 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.

Martin Bashir

#40. She could barely remember what life had been like before him and didn't even want to try. All Grace knew was that she wanted to be with him, always.

Victoria Michaels

#41. They were barely children, really, more like hyper badgers in Abercrombie and Fitch T-shirts.

Molly Harper

#42. I couldn't help but think of my mother's most life-altering mistake. Silly and romantic, getting married fresh out of high school to a man she barely knew, then producing me a year later. She'd always promised me that she had no regrets, that I was the best gift hr life had ever given her.

Stephenie Meyer

#43. I could barely breathe as I fled down the steps, like something was stuck in my throat. I couldn't tell what flavor it was; it tasted salty like tears, but it was sharp as broken glass.

Laura Bickle

#44. Bobby just stared at me. There was already crumbs in his mustache and it was barely seven in the morning.

Susan Juby

#45. I used to come here on my own sometimes ... Id' stay down here for ages." Her voice was barely audible. "It's a good place for sadness ...

Kevin Brooks

#46. The last thing I wanted when things were just barely started with Dax was having my friends make aware. What if they told my family? What was there even to tell so far? We'd kissed twice. We'd exchanged a few texts. I thought about him constantly. I'd named our first three children.
So what?

Lindsey Leavitt

#47. I barely knew her at all. She was on hold, someone I'd be friends with when she got her shit together. And then she died.

Michelle Tea

#48. How had it turned into this? I had lived my whole stupid life without him, and now I could barely make it through the hour.

Amanda Hocking

#49. Why she would choose a town where she barely knew anyone, and a boyfriend who knew how broken felt.

Robyn Schneider

#50. At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.

Rose Tremain

#51. It is despairing to consider that the cost and reliability of access to space have barely changed since the Apollo era over three decades ago. Yet in virtually every other field of technology, we have made great strides in reducing cost and increasing capability,

Elon Musk

#52. But her thoughts are swept away by the utter sweetness of it, and she barely hears him whispering, "I love you, Bev, I love you, I'll always love you" saying it over and over and not stuttering at all. She

Stephen King

#53. Please do not ask me," I interrupt, my voice so wobbly the words barely get out. "There are secrets so dangerous one shouldn't even confess them to the dearest of friends.

Aprilynne Pike

#54. Sometimes I'm overcome with such an aversion to human beings that I can barely refrain from retching.

Franz Kafka

#55. I'd been so focussed on enjoying Sarah the mother, that I'd barely let myself enjoy Sarah, the woman.

Christina Lauren

#56. Maybe it was ridiculous to go on a date with someone I'd barely spoken to and whose main appeal was that he was good-looking and he liked Wilco. I'd certainly done such things with men based on far less.

Cheryl Strayed

#57. You're barely even wearing a shirt! What are you going to do if a mugger jumps out at you, flash them?

Sarah Rees Brennan

#58. Hope was a luxury Melora could barely allow. It was more painful than sorrow, more hurtful than disappointment because it represented a potential: the potential for happiness. If only her happiness didn't depend so much on other people, she'd be fine.

Marie Zhuikov

#59. So many men treat their wives badly, or indifferently, or with barely contained impatience. Josh doesn't mind
no that's not right
he insists on openly showing his love and respect for me.

Lynn Morris

#60. I looked around. This house only the night before had been a home, and serves as a storage locker for memories that I could barely remember and a bunch of things I'd rather forget.

Laurie Notaro

#61. I was crazy. I was broken. I was dead.
And then, one day I wasn't. It took months and it took grace and it took some unexpected slight shift of sadness that slipped just enough, just barely enough to make room for beauty.

Lynne Branard

#62. Oh, for crap's sake, I can barely look at it," Aphrodite said, turning her head from the archway and averting her eyes. "And I usually love sparkly things.

P.C. Cast

#63. I grew up thinking that because I couldn't read, I was stupid and would never amount to anything. I worked my way through college as a waitress and thought I wasn't capable of doing anything else. My grades in English were horrible, and I barely got through.

Suze Orman

#64. 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.

Robert Morgan

#65. I desperately miss my girls when I am working, and I often feel guilty, but also feel the journey I am on is for them too. When I am on my 16th hour of a day and can barely keep my eyes open, they drive me forward.

Mika Brzezinski

#66. Nothing," he said. "Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn't know my name and barely knew my face.

Sherry Thomas

#67. We still should have enough time to reach Rome."
Hazel scowled. "When you say should have enough ... "
Leo shrugged. "How do you feel about barely enough?"
Hazel put her face in her hands for a count of three. "Sounds about typical for us.

Rick Riordan

#68. The arrogant half smile I disliked so much tipped up one corner of his swollen lips. You're barely glowing now.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#69. No bit of tail ever comes between you and Prince Charming. He must have entranced you."
"Prince Charming?" Falin asked, the question barely a whisper. "What did you think PC stood for? Politically Correct?

Kalayna Price

#70. I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English.

Sharad Pawar

#71. Juliette, he says, and he mouths the name, barely speaking at all, and he's pouring molten lava into my limbs and I never even knew I could melt straight to death.

Tahereh Mafi

#72. Climbing is a process - like yoga or running. We want to go to the spots where we're barely able to hold on. Those are the climbs that force us to become better athletes and grow as climbers.

Chris Sharma

#73. But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.

Cynthia Leitich Smith

#74. She gritted her teeth. The man dances like a clod. I'd rather dance with Mr Jenkins, who can barely move.

A.F. Stewart

#75. All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

Fran Lebowitz

#76. It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.

William O. Douglas

#77. When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.

Kate Atkinson

#78. All around us is a nothing that stretches on for infinity. We humans can barely comprehend that. If we comprehend it we are rarely pleased.

F.K. Preston

#79. My own father held down two jobs, barely affording the little rented house I grew up in. My Dad worked hard, lifted heavy things, and got his hands dirty. The only soap we had at my house was Lava. Heck, I was in college before I found out it wasn't supposed to hurt to take a shower.

Mike Huckabee

#80. He didn't say anything, he barely even breathed. I wanted to kiss him, but I had to laugh. He was a sophomore, and all he really cared about was his guitar. He took a bong hoot every half-hour. I think he might've been in love with me, but I didn't love him back.

Raziel Reid

#81. Women do too much shit to impress men who can barely tell the difference.

Anna Todd

#82. Was barely noticed, but I wasn't bothered by the lack of recognition.

Rebecca Donovan

#83. If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check.

Thomas Jefferson

#84. After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.

Olly Murs

#85. Not at all. You look as though magic has taken hold of you. It must be magic because I don't know how you can draw like that. I can barely manage a stick figure.

Sharon Biggs Waller

#86. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.

Piero Scaruffi

#87. You're seventeen," Magnus said. "You can't have wasted a life you've barely lived.

Cassandra Clare

#88. I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#89. else would I search for you for weeks, turn over every stone in Zurich looking for you, while my heart wouldn't beat and my lungs could barely breathe?

Victoria Parker

#90. Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

Glen Cook

#91. I don't think I have ever worn more outfits over the course of four days than I did Emmy weekend. You barely sleep. You don't eat.

Allison Tolman

#92. We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.

Ani DiFranco

#93. My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

Zola Jesus

#94. Angel is right,"said Dr. G-H quickly. "This is my clumsy way of demonstrating."
"Demonstrating what?" I was barely able to keep a snarl out of my voice. "How to get yourself beat up in one easy step?

James Patterson

#95. 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.

David Suzuki

#96. She was floating as the sea of pleasure took her out upon its rising tide and when she became aware of herself again it was to the feel of Zac behind her, supporting her weight by holding her under her arms. (Barely Restrained, 2011)

Brenda Cothern

#97. But performing in The Room was, by this point, like drinking the very last dregs of something through a ting straw: It took a lot of effort and you barely tasted it.

Greg Sestero

#98. The skeleton picked up the second skull, so worn as to barely be recognisable as such. The vertebrae fell and rolled like beads from a string.

J.A. Clement

#99. How the hell did people do this, this emotion-and-forgiveness thing? How did they stand these feelings? She could barely handle it and she had lovely, necessary, reason-for-living drugs to smooth over the rough spots. How did people do this shit sober?

Stacia Kane

#100. The Bible talks about bestiality even less than it talks about homosexuality, but that doesn't make bestiality an insignificant issue - or incest or child abuse or fifty other sins the Bible barely addresses.

Kevin DeYoung