Top 1200 Barely Getting By Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

I can't get to the point where my brain is mush and I can barely talk, because my son's life depends on my health.

I read almost no romantic fiction, in part because I barely believe in romance in the age of Tinder.

There's little kids on trains coming up to me, singing my theme song, and they can barely walk.

I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different matters, money problems, love problems, school problems. People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair-cut and getting born. And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

I think leading up to the tour is the most stressful part because you barely have any time home.

If I'm running around or just hanging out at home, then I barely wear any make-up.

When I was younger, I barely left my room because I was busy watching clips of my favorite actors and performers on the Internet.

The scary thing is I took 12 years of French, and I can barely say, 'My name is... ' And that's not because of the concussions.

I don't have hair anymore. I've shrunk. I'm barely 6 feet 2 inches. I just had my teeth fixed because I'm a grinder.

Thank God for the Italians, the most forgiving people of the world. And they sing so loud you can barely hear the music!

I had a standing arrangement with God: I'd agree to believe in him—barely—so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.

I have a lot of guy friends, from martial arts and film, and soccer. I actually barely know women.

My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth.

I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone - that's about it.

We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like things were getting out of hand. Incidents where kids were getting shot, and getting their tennis shoes ripped off their dead bodies. It just seems like these kids are dying at younger and younger ages and getting involved in gang activity.

Having a giant beard really distracts people from noticing you're barely keeping it together emotionally.

In Delhi the cars are getting bigger and sleeker, the hotels are getting posher, the gates are getting higher, and the guards are no longer the old chowkidars, the watchmen, but they are fellows with guns. And yet the poor are packed into every crevice like lice in the city. People don't see that anymore. It's as if you shine a light very brightly in one place, the darkness deepens around.

Beauty pageants in general are foreign and noxious to me: I can barely muster the energy to put on lip gloss and mascara.

With 'Barely Famous', we've tapped into and created something really exciting that we'll always be proud of going forward.

The role always attracts me. Sometimes I can read something and I can barely see the rest of the script.

I barely know what my plans are for tomorrow, but I hope chess will remain a major part of my life.

It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.

I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there... I sat there watching their living room shining out of the dark beside the pond. It looked like a fairy tale functioning happily in the post-World War II gothic of America before television crippled the imagination of America and turned people indoors and away from living out their own fantasies with dignity... Anyway, I just kept getting smaller and smaller beside the pond, more and more unnoticed in the darkening summer grass until I disappeared into the 32 years that have passed since then.

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.

I don't know what ontological means... I barely graduated high school, and I have never heard that word in conversation.

It's about being able to go through the grind, willing to get back up when you're knocked down. And when life's not going well, not getting down on yourself and just getting back up and getting back to work, and striving to be the best you can be.

Let's face it, space is a risky business. I always considered every launch a barely controlled explosion.

Multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever, and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I'm talking about.

I think the PGA Award, when we won that, was so shocking to me. I thought, 'Absolutely no way.' I was barely listening when they were announcing it.

It's pretty cool to watch a film where the character barely says anything but you can see exactly what he's thinking.

There’s little kids on trains coming up to me, singing my theme song, and they can barely walk.

There's just something about getting up, putting it out there, and getting this exchange of energy. Whether your audience is a camera lens, or live theater, or whatever it is, just putting that out there and getting it back is just an honor.

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

I barely got out of high school and I look back at my life often and go, "Wow, this was awesome!"

I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.

Don’t panic, I thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. “You mean you can feel happy or sad or—” “Desire.” A barely-there smile.

I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.

I'm so computer illiterate, I barely know how to send an e-mail. I mean, I have a laptop and Gmail, but I don't really look at it much.

Some of us are taught to ask for help. Some of us don't feel comfortable asking for help. Some of us will get into trouble because we don't want to share things with adults - maybe because we're used to getting in trouble. I have two daughters, and they're very different from each other. One will tell me everything. The other barely tells me anything at all. Who do I worry about the most? I worry about the quiet one. But it's something I wish I had had when I was a child, that feeling of having someone I could ask for help.

In 1998, there was no social media. People were barely on the Internet. So I had no input from fans at all. Zero.

Funny how time heals. Like that bullet in my ribs. It's there, I know it's there, but I can barely feel it at all anymore.

Now the old boy may be barely breathing, but the heart of rock and roll is still beating.

Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned.

I lived across the street from Noodle Bar. I could barely stand it, because you're there all the time; you can't get away.

The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.

I just barely got through school. The problem was a learning disability, at a time when there was no where to get help.

I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.

I barely got out of high school, and I look back at my life often and go, 'Wow, this was awesome!'

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

To be honest, I don't really have my own makeup because when I'm not on television or doing a photoshoot or something I barely wear it.

I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.

Getting ready to wrestle is like getting ready for a car crash. Getting ready to work with Brock Lesnar is like knowing you're going to get hit by a bus and the bus is going to back over you. If I'm going to work 'WrestleMania,' 16 weeks out I have to start training like I'm Mayweather getting ready for a fight.

I love the energy and the knowledge. I barely know how to use this thing [mobile phone]. I get by.

I can fall in and out of love, have marriages that barely last a month. When they go down the drain, I'll blame it on the fame.

Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

Most parts I've played since 'Naked,' I can barely remember who they were, let alone repeat any lines.