Richard Armour Quotes

I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet.

It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

I did just about anything to pay the rent for a while.

We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.

I was not somebody who watched a lot of films. We couldn't afford to. We came from struggling family background.

There were times when I couldn't even buy a loaf of bread.

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.

And makes me poor indeed.

They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income... Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.

I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one.

Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack for decent shelter and clothes on my back?

When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.

A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all." Elemental things.

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

I don't believe in pressure. Pressure is when you don't know where your next meal is coming from.

You're broke, eh?" I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.