Famous Quotes & Sayings

Just then, a car was racing down the road. They barely stopped before they hit the U-Haul. God was watching over us.

John had kept the car garaged most of the time, but as with most Model A's, the floor pans and lower three inches of the body were rusted beyond repair and had to be replaced. My brother, Mike, helped me to restore the car as well. He stripped the entire car to bare metal, and then I welded in 13 different body panels to replace the rotted areas. Being 75 years old, the car had many dings and dents that had to be straightened.

Ralph Goodale

It became quite obvious that the opposition's intention was to prevent the publication of a budget in February, and therefore I felt I had an obligation to Canadians not just to provide the bare bones of statistics, but in fact to give a greater indication of how the flexibility would be used,

It barely passed, and it shows the pilots are not in favor of giving the company anything more. That's the smallest margin that anything has ever been passed by Delta pilots.

It barely opened anywhere! They didn't put any money behind it at all.

He was barely minimum weight. He used to drink supplements and eat seconds on everything.

Ron Gardenhire

He just didn't make enough pitches today. He was all around the zone but he just missed. He was barely missing, but when you get behind these guys, those types of hitters, that's what happens.

Miranda Kerr

I think the perception of me can be, you know, confused. But that's only because people only see that side of me when I'm at work, in front of the camera. So they don't see Miranda at home; they don't see behind the scenes. They see the glamour of it all but they don't see Miranda standing barefoot in a dirty old house.

Alan Mulally

Having barely moved off their original positions, union negotiators were demanding more than $1 billion more than what was in our best and final offer,

We till a bare minimum, light tilling in the fall and in the spring to plant. We have a lot of wind.

Lytton Strachey

It is not the historian's business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he understands them . . . dispassionately, impartially and without ulterior motives.

Arlen Specter

I think that we ought to have more women on the court. Two is a bare minimum. We really ought to have more,

Chris Carpenter

I was just lobbing it to the point Mel was catching it with his bare hands. I was just lobbing it to feel it come off my hand and feel the spin it was supposed to have.

Joe Barry

We make fun of him all the time. Rod's a caveman. He barely knows how to use a cell phone. Leave him in a house by himself, and there's a good chance that he won't know how to turn on the TV because he can't figure out the remote.

He was pinned behind the dash board pretty good. He was in there so tight he could barely move.

I don't have the time and can barely check my email.

I'd like to have a third and a fourth. I'm hoping to stay away from injuries. We need more bodies because we barely have enough to perform.

I don't care. If they don't suspend him and they suspend me, that's being ridiculous. They didn't call him, that means they let them do whatever they want. Are we just going to watch and wait until we get hurt? I'm not going to let that go. I mean, he tried to hurt me. He had a good chance and he barely touched me, and I didn't let go my chance.

I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day-to-day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.

Anthony Fasano

He did a great job of taking it piece by piece and breaking it down to the bare nuts and bolts of it. He really made us learn the philosophy of the offense, what he's trying to do, instead of just learning what you do on which play.

Michael Garner

He loved to ski barefoot and enjoyed making his own skis. He would soak boards in water, and put them on blocks. Then he would drive his model A car up on them and let it sit while they dried. It would form a curve in them. He loved the outdoors.

Others will get the chance to show what they can do. We want to win and progress but we are down to the bare bones of the squad with these injuries.

Gary Mills

Really, this has been a tough season. We've had some chemistry issues. We've had to practice with machinery going on, so that we could barely hear each other. There's just been a lot of adversity, some of it self-made, but we came together.

Rory Bremner

In truth, I barely knew my father at all. He was 53 when I was born, and when I was ten he contracted cancer. Eight years later, in 1979, he died.

If you slept too many hours, you didn't even know it. We barely caught the tail end of it.

David Lawrence

If you want to completely tear yourself away from your home, your family and all you've ever known; if you want to endure months and years of a Spartan lifestyle and a harsh disciplinary regime; and if you don't mind carrying out the most menial tasks with only the bare minimum of material, then by all means join the French Foreign Legion.

I had barely turned 12 when my parents packed me off to Doon School. I was transported to a world of confusion with 600 other kids, no home-cooked food, no made-to-order clothes. It was a shock, but I adjusted.

Paul Dirac

In such a theory a bare electron would be inconceivable, since one cannot imagine the end of a piece of string without having the string.

Mike Fisher

I just need to get the strength back because I can barely shoot the puck.

I played a really steady match and just wore him down. By the end of the match, he could barely stand up.

Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity.

Steven Shainberg

I'm basically drawn to defeated, injured, hurt, barely walking characters.

Jeff Bezos

I'm barely making ends meet. How can I start a business?