Maj Sjowall Quotes

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

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'

I've gone for long stretches without working. I remember many times peeking into my checkbook to see if any money was left.

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

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.'

The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money.

I am scared of running out of money.

I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing.

I don't make any money.

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

This is a wonderful year for raw truth. We don't have any money.

I was broke from 19 to 26, borrowing money from my parents or my brothers or sisters every week to pay the bills.

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

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

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

Growing up, I didn't know anything about money other than we didn't have any.

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

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

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