#barely

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#court #get #had #i #me

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#beautiful #children #fact #god #in fact

The whole - it's the economy's bad. It's bad for everybody. I have my own comedy club. I opened it three years ago in a horrible economy. I created jobs. And we just started breaking even after a year and a half, barely. For that entire time, I have had to pay the difference of what we owe in rent and taxes and everything out of my own pocket. ↗

— Jon Lovitz

#ago #bad #barely #breaking #club

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#element #exist #greatest #know #perhaps

When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period. ↗

— John Moody

#barely #began #construction #emerged #first

The great thing about Pete and Peggy's storyline is that you barely have to do anything. There's so much there, so much history, that you can have them exchange a look and it's so loaded. So you honestly don't have to do anything. ↗

— Elizabeth Moss

#anything #barely #exchange #great #great thing

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#barely #england #frost #i #known

I can barely turn on my computer! ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#computer #i #i can #turn

When I was in high school, I ran hurdles, but I was really short, so I'd barely clear them. I was pretty quick, but I had little legs, so I had to take 50 steps in between each hurdle. ↗

— Chris Kirkpatrick

#between #clear #each #had #high

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#band #barely #finding #get #instrument