Lorrie Moore Quotes

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

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

My family, like many families here in South Carolina, have faced difficult financial situations.

If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.

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?'

By working toward a financial objective, you'll start to see the money add up for retirement or the credit card balance go down. But it doesn't have an immediate impact on your day-to-day life, and when it does - like when you're pinching pennies to save more - the immediate impact could feel negative.

I don't know if the money I've earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life.

There's something very soothing about the simplicity of doing what's right in front of you: paying the rent, buying groceries, and when there's a little extra for a treat like cinnamon rolls, whoopee! When you live paycheck to paycheck, you only have so much to lose.

You don't want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can't enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.

It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.

Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.

If you want to know the value of money, try and borrow some.

I've never felt fully able to sustain myself because I've run out of money many, many times, and it's been scary.

At a lot of college graduations, you'll hear people say, 'Follow your passions,' and that is important, but no one talks about the stress of not having enough money, the issues of debt, and the issues of work stress.

Nobody likes being broke. As somebody who's had to live out of a 1982 Datsun, trust me. I know. I also understand that the first step to improve your situation is to fix the problem that landed you there in the first place.

Once you start getting money, it relieves your stress of worrying about how you're going to pay your next bill. It's more like another stress of how many bills you have to pay.

If you can't pay your bills, it has a really tough effect on your mental state.

When I had money, I felt pressure, whether it was to invest it or do good with it, and I couldn't let it fizzle out. It was like I needed to prove to myself that I could look after it, only I did the opposite, but you have to take a chance in life.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.

Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!'