Anne Hegerty Quotes

I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door.

I don't make any money.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

Too many young people graduate laden with debts that take years, if not decades, to pay off.

I borrowed a lot of money from my parents in the years leading up to the 2000 Olympics, and I worked odd jobs.

If you're living off credit-card advances and ramen noodles, a buyout offer might be too hard to resist. And you'll be even smarter the second time around.

Garnishments tend to happen when people hide from their debts and stop making even minimum payments. Eventually, creditors sell the debt to a collection agency.

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

I got married when I was 16 so I had to do shift-work to make ends meet.

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay.

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

He who has four and spends five, has no need of a purse.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

My mom was a hairstylist, but she quit doing that to raise the kids - there were four of us. There was no money.

You have to pay the bills when you're a single mum.

I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

I know what not being able to pay your bills feels like real well... I know that way better than a room full of beautiful people and Tony awards and Grammy awards.

It's a little hard to go out there and spend your money on a home, car, or goods and services if your wages are being garnished to make debt collectors rich.

When you are continuing to be in debt or are going deeper into it, every time a creditor calls, it rubs your face not only in how vulnerable you are, but that people are out to get something from you that you don't have to give.

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.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.