Famous Quotes & Sayings

Melissa Etheridge

Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and barely have an original thought.

Our culture defines us as an independent nation. So it's troubling that it is barely on this government's radar.

I might slip every once in a while, but you will not see me dog-cussing a player out. I'm cautious. I barely even talk to the kids after the game. It's tough, and I hate to see what happened to (Dustin) because he's so young.

Melissa knew she didn't play real well (in the first half). She took that one shot and it barely touched the bottom of the basket. I just told her she had been playing the game for a long time and to keep doing what she does best. She did that in the second half.

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.

Some of the kids are doing this year what somebody like Ian (Tracy) was doing last year. He's on the 'A' relay now and he was barely on a relay last year.

My mom is the rock of our family. She keeps everyone together, everyone going straight forward. She's an unbelievable woman, raising four kids, moving to a different country (while) barely speaking English, she's a tremendous person. Both of my parents are my real-life idols.

Look around and a lot of guys have barely had 200 games in the NHL. They haven't been around that long. As a defenseman you don't really understand the game until you're up around 300.

Esther Williams

My mother took refuge in her spirituality while my poor father was barely able to bring home enough money to keep food on the table.

Heath Miller

I still see us as underdogs. Seattle's been one of the top teams in the league, throughout the entire year. We're a No. 6 seed and barely made the playoffs. We've got a tough challenge ahead.

I thought his first-half was poor, naturally, because he barely got a touch. But I was very pleased with his second-half - he showed real leadership.

Jesse James

Just able barely to mount a horse and ride about a little in the spring of 1866, my life was threatened daily, and I was forced to go heavily armed. The whole country was then full of militia, robbing, plundering and killing.

Just imagine a staircase of justice and this is just barely the first step because there's more to come.

Bob Hartley

I'm so happy I can barely stand myself.

Jim Boeheim

I think this year more than ever has proven there are teams that might not get in or just barely get in that can win games. In the past, years ago, I think there were always teams that maybe wanted to get in, but you really knew they couldn't win any games in the tournament if they got in.

Craig Finn

Lately, I barely drink anything until about 10 minutes before we play. Then I literally drink as much as I can.

David Duval

I was a little taken aback by it. I could barely move. I didn't expect it at all. I'm very disappointed because I know how well I'm playing. To have to deal with that again, I've already dealt with it long enough, I don't want to anymore.

Gary Mills

Really, this has been a tough season. We've had some chemistry issues. We've had to practice with machinery going on, so that we could barely hear each other. There's just been a lot of adversity, some of it self-made, but we came together.

Todd Heap

Relative to last year, I'm very healthy, ... I'm happy about that. Obviously I just came off of two surgeries, and I'm barely five, six months off of shoulder surgery. But I've put in a lot of time and a lot of work to be playing now at the level I'm at.

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.

We're seeing people finding insurance itself unaffordable and this study is showing that even those who are insured may be barely hanging on. It's a real squeeze on income and savings and economic security.

You know, Coach Martz and that system over there, they barely acknowledge the other team,

Unlike a strike situation, where hardship develops over time, many of our members barely escaped Katrina's destruction with nothing but the clothes on their backs.

Pico Iyer

In barely one generation, we've moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from them - often in order to make more time. The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

Willie Bloomquist

We were half a stride away today. Jose made a great play, but the guy just barely was safe.

We've had Boy Scout projects to clean up that bike lane many times. The street is barely wide enough for cars.

Mitchell Baker

We carry around computers in our pockets. Many people barely use them as phones. We use them as computers. If you think about the future, when you're traveling around, it's great to have a lightweight, small form factor.

You always want your team mentally right for an upcoming game. UNA helped us by whipping Delta. I'd be a little bit more worried had they just barely won. But that got our attention. They know they just can't show up and play.

We encouraged him to try six feet and he barely missed it.

We played pretty well in spurts. It was a game of spurts, and I guess our last spurt was just barely good enough to win.

My body has held up like I can barely believe,