I'm so far in the clouds I can barely hear. All that shit…

My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs.

— Gillian Jacobs

Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“But here,” he said, so softly I could barely hear him, “here in the dark, with you … I have no name.”

— Diana Gabaldon

For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I…

— Diana Gabaldon

“I fell in love with you too, you know," I admit, my voice so soft I can barely hear it. "Too late now though,…

— Monica Murphy

I have lived in Chennai for a large part of my life. You barely get to hear or speak Hindi there.

— Akshara Haasan

On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.

— Richard Strauss

The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I'm not really qualified to install a security system," said Dimitri. "Really? There's something you can't do?" Adrian's voice was so soft that I…

— Richelle Mead

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…

— Mariella Frostrup

On the ground, Johny Hendricks won. He beat GSP up. In the rounds Georges won, he barely won.

— Matt Hughes

I'm barely at home enough to enjoy the simple lifestyle that I want to live.

— Justin Vernon

I can barely recall a single holiday when my father didn't make a scene or create some kind of chaos. We were always walking…

— Dominique Moceanu

There's very little about being in a functional-M.R.I. scanner that is natural: you are flat on your back, absolutely still, with your head immobilized…

— Robin Marantz Henig

I barely knew I had skin before I met you.

— Sarah Waters