Skint Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Billy Connolly

#6. 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

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

Patrick Rothfuss

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

Alan Hansen

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

Bill Nighy

#10. Making movies wasn't really an immediate thought, where I was raised. I was going to be a lawyer, and I thought I would just draw. So, I was sketching all the time and I realized that I needed some outlet, and then I found animation.

Kevin Munroe

#11. Dive on them and squash them if you must.

Jeremy Taylor

#12. Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny, and that was something I learned from when I was 2, 3, 5 years old.

Ted Cruz

#13. If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

Gloria Steinem

#14. Would there be trees if we didn't see them?

Virginia Woolf

#15. Only a fool trips on what is behind him.

Iceberg Slim

#16. Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.

Abraham Lincoln

#17. To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!

Alexander Pope

#18. If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

Roald Dahl

#19. Gone with the Wind, a self-help manual that dealt with the subject of how best to cope with Yankees when they venture south.

Raymond L. Atkins

#20. Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

Gil Scott-Heron

#21. We are continuous with all the particles of our physical being, as in our breathing we are continuous with the sky. Between our bodies and the world there is unity and commerce.

David Malouf

#22. There are moments when I feel that the Shylocks, the Judases, and even the Devil are broken spokes in the great wheel of good which shall in due time be mad whole.

Helen Keller

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Life is about creating your own world, your own joy.
Life is not about living in someone else's world or playing with someone else's toy.

Debasish Mridha