Tight Budget Quotes

Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.

Finally, assuming that many of those are fulfilled, which won't be easy in tight budget times, we're taking the supply side at the basic research level, because that's where government is absolutely fundamental.

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

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

Although I was paid a salary in Ann Arbor, my wife and children and I drank powdered milk at six cents a quart instead of the stuff that came in bottles. I was a tightwad.

I did 12 shows in 13 weeks at a summer theater in Maine where we were paid $35 a week. After taxes and $25 for room and board, I had enough money for a pack of cigarettes and a bowl of lobster bisque.

The budget is tight, and that is exactly where we want it to be and where we need it to be.

My parents were very strapped for cash when we were growing up.

When you make a movie for a really low budget, it makes you really strict. You have to plan things down to the tiniest detail.

I've pretty much always lived paycheck to paycheck. I never considered it struggling, but it has always been a high-wire act.

We never considered Christmas a holiday because the budget was really tight, so Christmas was just a usual day for us.

I can't speak for other people but the budget of my films is super tight to an extent that people can't even imagine.

I remember my mother and I sitting down counting off our pennies to pay our bills. We really had nothing.

We shot 'Party Girl' on film, and I remember being told, 'We need to get this in two takes because we don't have a lot of film in the mag right now!'

It's a very long and difficult schedule on a single-camera show.

I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were watching the dollar, stretching the dollar, and coupons. It was all those things.

Here in Tennessee, instead of the big spending, big government, job killing agenda of the Obama Administration, Tennesseans have tightened their belts and are struggling to find jobs that will enable them to support their families.

I'm not an extravagant person. You don't get a chance to spend money when you're working on a TV show.

My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do.

Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.

Well, I think the president has clearly submitted us a tight budget, but it's what's called for if we're going to get spending under control and keep the economy moving in the right direction, with economic growth and job creation activity.

In my 20s, I was a freelance writer with little money and living in a rabbit warren one-and-a-half-bedroom with a roommate.

We were pretty cash-strapped for all those years when I took over.

My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.