Top 310 Barely Quotes

In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.

I barely got out of high school, and I look back at my life often and go, ‘Wow, this was awesome!’

I read almost no romantic fiction, in part because I barely believe in romance in the age of Tinder.

After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.

I wasn’t allowed to audition for anything professionally until I was – I guess I cheated a little bit and started when I was in college, but I graduated! Barely.

I barely know what my plans are for tomorrow, but I hope chess will remain a major part of my life.

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

I like contemporary, bare-boned writing. I don’t like having the language that I barely understand get in the way of me interpreting it over to an audience. It’s this barrier that I don’t want to have to attack.

To be a good actor… it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

I’m from Sweden, where it’s winter, like, half the year. And it’s dark – we barely have any daylight.

I was dirt-poor. I could barely hold down a job. Eventually, though, I started getting small parts on shows like ‘Smallville,’ ‘Supernatural’… and lots of really bad sci-fi movies. I was running around the woods in wolf contacts, covered in fake blood made out of pancake syrup, roaring.

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.

Honestly, I have the quickest metabolism ever, I can eat as much as I want and barely gain any weight. So I just try to eat as much as I can every day.

When I was younger, I barely left my room because I was busy watching clips of my favorite actors and performers on the Internet.

People barely have anything to say in 140 characters. The last thing we need is a bunch of discursive rambling on Twitter.

Most of us pass our lives never once laying eyes on our own organs, the most precious and amazing things we own. Until something goes wrong, we barely give them thought. This seems strange to me. How is it that we find Christina Aguilera more interesting than the inside of our own bodies?

I’ve learned that I’ve just barely scratched the surface of knowledge of the profession, and I have deep envy of and appreciation for filmmakers who really, truly understand the physics, the design of filmmaking. They can do story and color and composition and geometry and math and science all at once.

I barely made it out of high school and I didn’t go to college.

My mum said she remembers me asking her if she’d take me to ballet lessons when I was about two and a half. She said I could barely speak, and yet was asking for ballet lessons.

I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It’s an incredible amount of work.

I feel that people who think it’s okay to barely eat are wrong. There has to be a good balance of diet, food, and workout for your body to stay in good shape, always!

I barely leave my cage, my house.

It took me three years to learn to dress in the American way, especially in winter. That was just like me. I barely wear socks even now.

There’s little kids on trains coming up to me, singing my theme song, and they can barely walk.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

With ‘Barely Famous’, we’ve tapped into and created something really exciting that we’ll always be proud of going forward.

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.

To be given the Radio 1 breakfast show was huge, but I was partying so hard I barely remember it.

For us, just serving the market in the US and the UK, we can barely make the math work on an interesting business. My sense is that our clones and copycats are very manual. If they make it work, then congratulations to them!

Beauty pageants in general are foreign and noxious to me: I can barely muster the energy to put on lip gloss and mascara.

A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.

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.

I live in southern Appalachia, so I’m surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It’s particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren’t living nearly as well.

I was barely 16 when I started working. And I worked extensively. But you can work extensively till a point.

One of the things that amazes me is the amount of functional illiteracy in this country… people can’t read to get around, or people who can’t read the newspaper but can barely read street signs.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

I’m really emotional. I don’t fight with people – like, I can barely fight with my husband because I’ll just start crying instead. I’ve learned not to do that.

I don’t read music. I refuse to learn how to do that. I barely know half the chords I’m playing. I like being naive when it comes to that.

The Fox News that I know and work in is a team of producers, technicians, photographers, truck operators and production managers who barely have time to eat lunch, much less engage in bad behavior.

Bill Murray doesn’t do anything. He barely shows up at the movies he says he’s going to do.

Had Elizabeth Bennet known how wildly Darcy’s heart beat for her, ‘Pride and Prejudice’ would barely have made it into a short story. Their torturously slow-burning romance is a classic example of how men and women still struggle to communicate the most basic of emotions.

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

I can’t drink anything but chocolate. I don’t even like any milk but chocolate. When I eat cereal, I barely touch the white part.

I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, many Catholics in France already barely went to church, except for the big three: baptism, marriage, and funeral. And only the middle one was by choice.

My family comes from Panama, and I grew up in a single parent household with my mother, who barely spoke English. She couldn’t get a good job, yet there were four of us for her to raise.

When I work, I work non-stop and so hard that I barely get time to see anything but the set and home. So whenever I am done with one show, I go into my globetrotter mode and just pick a place and disappear for a while.

I barely graduated high school.

When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period.

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.

My own day-to-day observations confirm that many Americans can barely make change. At the supermarket where I buy groceries, I’ve watched more than one encounter at the cash register where both customer and clerk are befuddled at the prospect of double-checking the sums.

I had barely turned 12 when my parents packed me off to Doon School. I was transported to a world of confusion with 600 other kids, no home-cooked food, no made-to-order clothes. It was a shock, but I adjusted.

In 1998, there was no social media. People were barely on the Internet. So I had no input from fans at all. Zero.

I grew up middle class – my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class.

Many families teeter on the edges, not qualifying for the little support on offer, unwilling to seek it for fear of drawing attention to a household barely holding the pieces together, or hit by unexpected bills.

It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.