Nafessa Williams Quotes

As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.

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

When I was a student, I couldn't afford anything.

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?

When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.

When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.

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

I am still writing my own checks for more or less substantial amounts every week in order to squeeze by the weekend.

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

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

Perhaps the original layaway angel knew from experience, or simply deduced, that people resorting to the old-fashioned installment method of layaway may be struggling financially.

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

I was a struggling college student like everyone else. I bicycled to class.

I drove motorcycles through college. I didn't have the money to buy a car.

Consumers, when they've only got a couple of quid left in their pockets, are choosy about how they want to spend it.

When I was at art college, a can of Spray Mount adhesive cost £12: £2 more than my weekly food bill.

I would take vouchers, do sums in my head just to get some eggs and bread or a tin of cheap Irish stew. I'd be starving and want two tins but couldn't afford it. The poorer you are the hungrier you feel.

I was pretty poor for a long time. Not *poor* poor. But college student poor. I lived for most of my adult life living on student wages, then after I got my MA and started teaching, I lived on teacher's wages, which isn't much better.

The will is there; the money is not there.

Everyone is trying to make ends meet, and even if you aren't, no one wants to get ripped off.

I spend so much time in front of mirrors as part of my job that I try to avoid them outside work.

I think being on a constraint with money makes you much more creative.

When I was young in the business, I felt anything I wanted to buy personally and professionally was always too expensive.

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.