Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Gardenhire

He just didn't make enough pitches today. He was all around the zone but he just missed. He was barely missing, but when you get behind these guys, those types of hitters, that's what happens.

Greer's having so much success in practice, we have to put a coach on him for his own good and the good of his teammates. I squeaked out a 2-0 win over him in practice the other day and I was so tired I could barely drive home.

Eric Alterman

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.

Grace Gealey

I used to run around barefoot and climb trees and pick fruit and sell it on the side of the road like a real island girl.

Ted Shawn

I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.

Miranda Kerr

I think the perception of me can be, you know, confused. But that's only because people only see that side of me when I'm at work, in front of the camera. So they don't see Miranda at home; they don't see behind the scenes. They see the glamour of it all but they don't see Miranda standing barefoot in a dirty old house.

Rick Savage

I feel so incredibly vulnerable and exposed when I have to talk into a microphone and bare my soul so to speak.

Jimmy Johnson

If I wasn't going to win, I wanted Brian to. He moved down to block me, but I had just barely got my bumper under him.

Socrates

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

Freshwater supplies in the Middle East now are barely sufficient to maintain a quality standard of living.

Kim said they barely escaped by the grace of God.

Just then, a car was racing down the road. They barely stopped before they hit the U-Haul. God was watching over us.

Just then, a car was racing down the road, ... They barely stopped before they hit the U-Haul. God was watching over us.

John had kept the car garaged most of the time, but as with most Model A's, the floor pans and lower three inches of the body were rusted beyond repair and had to be replaced. My brother, Mike, helped me to restore the car as well. He stripped the entire car to bare metal, and then I welded in 13 different body panels to replace the rotted areas. Being 75 years old, the car had many dings and dents that had to be straightened.

Ralph Goodale

It became quite obvious that the opposition's intention was to prevent the publication of a budget in February, and therefore I felt I had an obligation to Canadians not just to provide the bare bones of statistics, but in fact to give a greater indication of how the flexibility would be used,

It barely took any time at all (for him to fit in). We knew he would be the exclamation point on all the players we have.

It barely passed, and it shows the pilots are not in favor of giving the company anything more. That's the smallest margin that anything has ever been passed by Delta pilots.

It barely opened anywhere! They didn't put any money behind it at all.

Ryan Zimmerman

It barely got me. It didn't do anything. It was funny.

It barely broke the skin. He just took a little bit of hair off.

Victoria Gotti

I lost 25 pounds, I was so exhausted, I could barely lift my arms,

Jim Boeheim

I have a number in mind, I think it should probably be about four to six, somewhere in there. This year, more than ever, has proven that there are teams that might not get in, or might just barely get in, that can win games.

I have barely time to give you a brief statement of facts as I find them.

I have just two-handedly, fully grasped the bare wire of the master cable at the largest power plant in human metaphor. Shocked? More like charged!

Tori Amos

I have my own parties. They involve being barefoot with a piece of fried chicken and margarita in each hand.

I give Lisle a lot of credit. They run the system and they execute it. I quit counting their offensive rebounds at 19. That was one of the few things I had written on the board: 'execute our system, stop the ball, and box out.' And when you do barely one of those, you're going to struggle. We're back to square one. We need to start over from the beginning.

It contains a barely veiled threat of collective punishment. Making such a threat is a violation of the Geneva conventions and other laws of war.

Alan Mulally

Having barely moved off their original positions, union negotiators were demanding more than $1 billion more than what was in our best and final offer,

Mariella Frostrup

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.

If it shows anything, it shows that for whatever reason, and perhaps part of it was the timing, was that officials were not just very successful in mobilizing voters. If you can't even mobilize your governor, then don't complain about the person barely making minimum wage who decides he's not going to leave work early and wait in line somewhere in order to go vote,

Joe Barry

We make fun of him all the time. Rod's a caveman. He barely knows how to use a cell phone. Leave him in a house by himself, and there's a good chance that he won't know how to turn on the TV because he can't figure out the remote.

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

Shaun White

I was so stoked I got it out early. I was nervous because I fell on the first hit of my first run, but I didn't care that much because I knew I had a better run in me. I practiced this run before and made it really sketchy. I was barely hanging on, but it just came together for me tonight. It seems to happen in contests for me.