#hardly

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. ↗

— George Eliot

#bred #cloudy #damp #despondency #egoism

I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#either #hardly #hollywood #i #interested

Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around. ↗

— Susannah York

#because #difficult #early #energy #find

I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been. ↗

— Dennis Franz

#been #choked #cleaning #could #day

Richard was in heavy, heavy costume, he could hardly sit, you know, and I turned up and they put me in two layers of silk, so I played him much lighter - you know, floating around in a pair of slippers, a bit of a hippy. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#bit #costume #could #floating #hardly

I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly. ↗

— Franklin Knight Lane

#been #eleven #hardly #i #nine

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#america #between #brighter #commitment #contrast

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#becomes #central #concerns #even #exists

Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#bite #dogs #ever #hardly #laughing

Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way. ↗

— Rick Majerus

#bad #bad luck #had #hardly #haven