Barely Quotes

694 quotes by 540 authors

I barely finish one pre-collection before I must start on another. Sales start, but I am already elsewhere creatively. The men's show is being prepared,… — Alber Elbaz
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and… — Gabrielle Zevin
Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live. — Don DeLillo
When a phrase is born, it is both good and bad at the same time. The secret of its success rests in a crux that… — Isaac Babel
Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough. — Mark Twain
But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips, the daintiest dimples,… — Sarah Vowell
I'm sorry Sandstorm" he murmured. "I never meant to hurt you" His voice barely more than a whisper, he added,"I love you." Sandstorm's eyes glowed."I… — Erin Hunter
Jill: 'I don't pay attention to politics.' Ben: 'You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.' Jill: 'I don't pay attention to… — Robert A. Heinlein
Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the far-off: whoever you… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My… — Haruki Murakami
You're so good looking I can barely keep my eyes on the meter. — Woody Allen
She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was armed… — Markus Zusak
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune… — Eugene V. Debs
There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan… — Nicholas Sparks
The column hung above the middle of the pentacle, bubbling ever upward against the ceiling like the cloud of an erupting volcanoe. There was a… — Jonathan Stroud
The first building she reached appeared to be an old barn. Only one young guard stood before its bolted door, staring at her with wide… — Shannon Hale
Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those… — Albert Camus
My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable — Anne Lamott
Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said. I could barely muster a "yeah." That's a good thing," the assistant told me. When… — Randy Pausch

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