261 Quotes About Barely

It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the reading. Novels are read in a matter of days, even hours. A writer may labor for weeks over a particular passage that will have its effect on a reader for an instant - and that effect may be subliminal or barely noticed.

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.

It was worse when I stood around or sat down. During the game (against Austin), I could barely move.

If he doesn't finish that race, we wouldn't have been second as a team. He barely finished it. He showed a lot of heart.

Kim said they barely escaped by the grace of God.

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.

He was pinned behind the dash board pretty good. He was in there so tight he could barely move.

You can say CAFTA went through, but what it revealed is that free trade is on life support, ... It barely squeezed through Congress and doesn't bode well for future deals.

You don't get this very often. This has barely even been looked at by biologists. It's extraordinary.