Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

He was barely minimum weight. He used to drink supplements and eat seconds on everything.

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.

We are extremely deep one through 10. When I got here we could barely field a team, but that certainly isn't the case anymore.

Steve Squyres

What we have found once we've gotten up into the summit region...the driving has gotten very, very good. The ground is hard here. There is not a lot of fine-grain stuff around. What there is piled up in drifts. This is because the summit region is exposed to the wind; it's very windy. In some parts of the summit region, we barely leave tracks.

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.

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.

Michael Garner

He loved to ski barefoot and enjoyed making his own skis. He would soak boards in water, and put them on blocks. Then he would drive his model A car up on them and let it sit while they dried. It would form a curve in them. He loved the outdoors.

Leah Busque

Whatever the future of social reputation online, I'm excited to dig in and help forge the path forward. Not only will embracing and enabling the growth of these reputation elements benefit my business, the consumer in me can barely control her excitement.

What most people like is the three homemade soups every day. Chicken corn chowder, we can barely keep up with.

We till a bare minimum, light tilling in the fall and in the spring to plant. We have a lot of wind.

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.

Dan Dierdorf

I thought to myself at least a couple of times after a hit, 'Boy, that's going to leave a mark. I'm going to pay for that some day down the road.' We didn't talk about spinal compression. I'm sure I lost at least 2 inches in height in my career. I'm barely hanging onto 6-2 now.

I always got the feeling that utility lobbyists could get a hearing any time they wanted to and did, and I always got the feeling that the Committee of Consumer Services was barely tolerated, ... In the eight years that I was there, I was probably approached two or three times by a legislator who wanted the committee perspective on something.

Lane Kiffin

He won't even be out there today. He's getting another MRI. His back just locked up Tuesday. He's barely able to walk around.

Anthony Fasano

He did a great job of taking it piece by piece and breaking it down to the bare nuts and bolts of it. He really made us learn the philosophy of the offense, what he's trying to do, instead of just learning what you do on which play.

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,

Tucker Carlson

If the state comes out with a code, who is going to enforce it? Little League doesn't want the state to tell them it has to enforce it. We barely have enough volunteers to run the program.

Holly Combs

I was the angriest little person imaginable. I woke up with a frown every morning. I barely talked, wore black all the time and had some serious teenage rebellion years.