Quotes About Resourcefulness

The guys had already cleaned up. Or done the best they could with a quick wash and teeth brushing at Corey's. There hadn't been any spare toothbrushes, so I'd done mine with my finger and tried not to look in the mirror. One glance had told me that no amount of touch-ups was going to help. I needed a twenty-minute shower.

Packing light' wasn't possible. 'Packing light enough not to stall the train engine' seemed a noble goal to Evie's way of thinking.

Captain's Log... ...Four days have passed with no sign of human life on this island. Hunger is about to push me to the point of... ...Eating pocket lint. It looks edible.

Never use your own money when you can spend someone else's.

Never use your own money when you can spend someone else's. - Lev Peshkov

Ne t'en fais pas. Les scrupules sont bons pour les privilégiés. Pour nous qui sommes nés pauvres, notre seul salut est dans la ruse. Elle n'aimait pas entendre son frère parler ainsi et affirmer que leur enfance difficile excusait tout, ce qu'il faisait parfois.

Good wood was better than silver, he had liked to say, because it was harder to steal. "We've got nothing left, and no way to make a living," Edgar said. "What on earth are we going to do?

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

Evening work is economical. Power comes most cheaply by night.

You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you are in desperate need.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Folks began to sit down along the curb, leaning against the odd assortment of old vehicles folks had retrofitted to function again after the EMP burst had blown out the electronics.

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.

But mice and rats and such small deerHave been Tom's food for seven long year.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

World War II had marked "the supreme triumph of man in his long battle with the scarcities in nature." By

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Ironically, later we used the money that we were able to bring to the camp to wipe our bottoms. We simply didn't have any other paper. We tore ten-guilder notes into quarters and then we could use them four times. That was just fine, because it's not pleasant to have a dirty behind.

cut a piece of moist skin from a dead horse, and tied it tightly over the wound. Curly

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.

While there was breath in my body, she would never lack sufficient AA batteries.

Oh, hey, he'd figured out how to work the stupid ramp mechanism. It'd have been nice to have done that before he was forced to steal some guy's tow truck, but that was how every single possible thing had gone so far in this situation. Just a little bit behind the curve, a little slow to figure out the right thing. Story of his fucking life.