Barely Quotes

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The fact is I never was too bright in school. I just barely graduated. I had a D- average. I ain't ashamed of it, though.… — Muhammad Ali
Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiquÃ©s assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures… — Peter Watts
Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body. — Estella Warren
Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at. — Matthew McConaughey
We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads… — Norman Mailer
There is a big difference between a disappointing friend and a deadly enemy. Of course the Democrats are disappointing. That's what makes them Democrats. If… — Bill Maher
I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I wonder how we… — Sarah Dunant
I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed. — Roz Chast
In a city that is barely getting by with its small budget, something like illegal immigration can be the difference from being able to provide… — Lou Barletta
Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to… — David Plotz
I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what I… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Ask yourself this: How much deprivation, how much self-effacement must you suffer through before you act on your desire for meaning and fulfillment? Before itâ€™s… — Jillian Michaels
Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every… — Nikolai Gogol
Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left… — John Banville
My moral compass is so broken I can barely find the parking lot. — Ben Quayle
I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's… — Poul Anderson
I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came… — Sharad Pawar
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists. — Witter Bynner
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your… — Joel Osteen
To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite… — Elizabeth David

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