Scrimp Quotes

#1. I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the time to scrimp on calories or quality.

Tom Colicchio

#2. The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.

Agnes Repplier

#3. Angels do not tire, said the Angel, because they do not scrimp on their strength. If you are not thinking about the finiteness of your strength, you will not tire, either. Know, O Areseny, that only he who does not fear drowning is capable of walking on water.

Evgenij Vodolazkin

#4. Never let money control you. I'd rather see someone spend every red cent and relish his/her life than scrimp, obsess, and pinch the pennies. There's something repugnant about a person who centers his life around money.

Rita Mae Brown

#5. I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills.

Marcy Kaptur

#6. For millions, the retirement dream is in reality an economic nightmare. For millions, growing old today means growing poor, being sick, living in substandard housing, and having to scrimp merely to subsist.

Sylvia Porter

#7. I remember when I was 26. My father died when I was young and my mother didn't have a lot of money, so I thought, 'I want to own a flat by the time I'm 26.' So I worked towards that, literally trying to scrimp and save. But sometimes those plans don't go as you expect.

Cate Blanchett

#8. You can always-always-give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness! If everyone were to give in this way and didn't scrimp on kindly words, there would be much more love and justice in the world!

Anne Frank

#9. I finally decided to adopt guidelines rather than set a budget. If it could be done at home, skip it. If I had done it before, skip it. If the odds were that I would never have another chance to do it, do it. Scrimp on meals, transportation and accommodations.

Kristine K. Stevens

#10. What I see is sacred.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. It felt like time had slowed down when Rose looked up and found Kyran. They stared at the other as the battle raged around them. Then Kyran's eyes darkened and his expression turned to fury. He pulled back his hand and threw out a stream of fire, straight at Rose.

S.F. Mazhar

#12. Each new scientific fact gives rise to new uncertainties, and every pattern of starlight holds both a record and a prophecy.

John Pipkin

#13. Whenever you're working towards something greater than yourself, it's almost a selflessness that the Lord delights in when you're serving your teammate or your friend or your sister in Christ.

Tobin Heath

#14. I have an obsession for quality. I work for my guests, not to obtain Michelin stars.

Alain Ducasse

#15. If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

Aristotle.

#16. China is so central to our economic lives that journalists have had no choice but to engage China with greater technical analysis and precision.

Evan Osnos

#17. An individual who delights at all in the beauty of language does well to avoid becoming an attorney or a legislator.

Ron Brackin

#18. Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

Robert Baden-Powell

#19. And never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did.

Jack Kerouac

#20. The guy's (Shane Spencer) ridiculous. No one hits home runs like that. I'm telling you, man, it's ridiculous.

Derek Jeter

#21. It's always weird to eat something that is a pet elsewhere.

Nick Kroll