Louis C. K. Quotes

It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don't mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation.

There was a time in L.A. when I drove to 7-Eleven to go grocery shopping, and I locked my keys in my car, which wasn't insured. My wallet was in there, and I couldn't call AAA, because I only had $7 in my bank account. It was one of those moments where I was like, 'O.K., I literally have nothing right now.'

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

I have never had the money to make too many large purchases.

I have no proper money to invest!

Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

I grew up in financially straitened circumstances and meat, which was expensive, was a rare thing at mealtimes. We ate meat about once a month, if that.

I cannot afford to watch Fox News.

My parents didn't have any money.

It is easy to say that poverty is no crime .... It is a blunder though, and is punished ... A poor man is despised the whole world over.

We have hardly enough money to last till the end of March.

I had almost no money, but with the little bit I had, I got a ticket to see 'That Championship Season' at the Booth theater.

I remember being denied a protein bar that I went in to buy. I was so hungry, and it was before an audition, and I ran in and tried to buy this protein bar. And I checked my bank account, and it was negative 17 cents... And I remember getting on the phone with my mom and laughing that I have negative 17 cents.

My parents are not of this world. I've had to work multiple jobs, been in a position where I cannot pay off student loans.

I admit that I resent running out of research money.

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.

They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don't have any, it is everything.

For far too many people in the world, the vicious cycle of financial deprivation also feeds into the vicious cycle of sleep deprivation. If you're working two or three jobs and struggling to make ends meet, "get more sleep" is probably not going to be near the top of your priorities list.