A. E. van Vogt Quotes

I live like most of the people in my district: paycheck to paycheck.

People are trying to figure out how to pay bills and make ends meet. They don't want to turn on the TV and say, 'What is this crap?'

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.

I don't make any money.

There's a foot race between gas bills and paychecks.

These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.

I remember the early days when every month I had to decide whether I should continue to lease a typewriter or if I could finally afford to buy it. Yes, that $12 a month really made a difference in our budget.

I've lived on $400 a month in college. I've lived on it fine.

I was working a full-time job but not having anything in my savings account at the end of the month because of my bills and because acting in the beginning costs money.

Economic security can feel like an impossible goal when you're living paycheck to paycheck, deciding between paying the light bill or the water bill, knowing the decision to pay either one may mean you can't put food on the table.

As long as I can pay rent, that's all I care about.

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.

For the vast majority of Americans who work hard and play by the rules, paying the bills may be hard some months, but it's something we always do.

Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything.

I worry about putting food on the table, paying for my kids needs, their college fees in years to come. It's about earning enough to have a living to be able to look after your children.

Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.

You know, not everybody can afford to pay $58 for prime rib or $650 for a bottle of wine. My friends and I cook for regular families who worry about feeding their kids and paying the bills.

Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.

I have to tell you, I live paycheck to paycheck like most Americans. It's very difficult for me to say, 'Hey, I can give up my paycheck,' because the reality is, I have financial obligations that I have to meet on a month-to-month basis that doesn't make it possible for me.

I need to make money. If I don't, I cannot survive.

I cannot afford to watch Fox News.

When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.

The budget is about day-to-day lives.