Quotes About Being Skint

#1. If I had married someone wealthy when I was young, I would have sunk like a stone. Being skint makes life quite clear. You've got to take that job.

Anna Chancellor

#2. I love you but
don't know what to
do.

Charles Bukowski

#3. nodded, knowing his mother would know he

Anand Neelakantan

#4. I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim north, but because I am from a class of people who believe in work. In paying their way.

Ian Watson

#5. It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job.

Mackenzie Crook

#6. I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.

Billy Connolly

#7. All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.

Bill Nighy

#8. It was shivery and scant. Scared. Skint. But just around the edges it was still scintillant.

Patrick Rothfuss

#9. I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.

Alan Hansen

#10. When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint.

Bill Nighy

#11. When Sting arrived on Tyneside in November 1992, to receive his degree, he informed me that it was no longer me who was the skint one.

James Berryman

#12. The airlock's on its side, and I can hear a steady hiss. So either it's leaking or there are snakes in here. Either way, I'm in trouble.

Andy Weir

#13. If God had created celery, it would only have two stalks, because that's the most that almost any recipe ever calls for.

Skint Foodie

#14. Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is what I have always tried to do.

Wangari Maathai

#15. What he had wanted the most as a child was a family, a family that treated him like a person and respected his space, his body, and his place in the world. He was never held with love until Mrs. D, who came along so many years into his childhood that he was almost out of it

Debra Anastasia

#16. TV cookery is very like internet porn - the overwhelming majority of its audience will never ever get to act out what's happening on screen.

Skint Foodie

#17. Gratitude is not a band aid and neither is happiness. You can't just slap it on a wound and it will automatically heal, but it is a salve that can help keep it clean, free of infection, and back on the road to recovery.

James Fullerton

#18. Owning a great golf course gives you great power.

Donald Trump

#19. I don't look like who I am.

Barbara Kingsolver