Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Blanco

We are praying that the hurricane dissipates or that it weakens. This state can barely stand what happened to it.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn't care for it in other people either.

Edan Lepucki

I still can't believe that I went on 'The Colbert Report' myself; for the appearance I wore a lot of makeup, my hair was curled like a poodle's, and I could barely breathe in my Spanx undergarments. But, hey - an authoress has to lean in, right?

We were in a slump and out of sync because of the injuries. The win was important because were finally starting to get healthy. We've barely had enough players to conduct a practice. Now it's just a matter of getting our timing back and working on a little conditioning.

Helio Castroneves

Unfortunately, I think we made the wrong choice on our race setup, and the Marlboro Team Penske car had a tremendous push in Turns 3 and 4. Those corners were my biggest problem. I could barely touch the throttle going through there. The team made front wing adjustments on both of our pits stops, but it didn't really help. All considering, I'm pretty happy with a fourth-place finish.

We're barely meeting the core in rural Utah.

We're barely keeping up with the growth in Naperville and the surrounding communities, ... We need more beds.

We're barely getting beat, just one or two possessions away from winning. We've played good basketball. But we haven't played consistent.

Paul Thomson

Three years ago, I used to go out a lot and I used to drink quite a lot. On a Sunday night, I'd think, 'Right, I have to sign on on Thursday, and I can't forget that' and now, into the space of one day, I'm cramming in what then I would have done in two weeks. I can barely remember my old life now.

When I came here I barely thought I would play as a freshman, ... But some people got hurt and luckily I got to go in.

Tom Stoppard

I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived.

Losing to Columbia and barely beating a few other Ivy teams is unacceptable, so we are all a little upset with the finish. Still, the scores were bunched and we were only 12 shots out of first, so it's not like we are too far off.

So far we've been able to keep up with it, but there are times when you feel you're so busy you can just barely keep up with it.

Jerry Jones

She came to school with a black eye. She had a patch over her eye. She could barely walk and she was in pain.

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.

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.

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.

Kyle Busch drove his heart out. We really wanted to get Kyle the youngest win on record and we just barely got it, so we feel good.

Last year he barely snuck into district. Since then he put the work in. He's a gritty, hard-nosed kid who has really learned to wrestle. He has the confidence now.

Ray Edwards

Last time I recall, we beat Ohio State, and we barely lost to Michigan. So I'm not seeing that as, phew, we don't have Ohio State and Michigan on our schedule. That's just how it turned out. It's still the Big Ten.

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.

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,

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.