logo

Quotes About Struggle

Writers don't need love; all they require is money.
~ John Osborne
When I turned 16, I thought I was a man. I needed the money. When you don't have it, crazy thoughts go through your mind.
~ Snoop Dogg
Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!
~ Buddy Guy
My trainer, George Francis, used to train a lot of African boxers. They're hungry guys, man. They've got no trainers, got nothing. They're so hungry to do boxing, to make some money.
~ Frank Bruno
I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights
~ Art Linkletter
I was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about money, because most people don't understand the part of money in running a band.
~ Artie Shaw
Money is a never-ending problem.
~ Alvin Ailey
Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.
~ Edgar Degas
Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.
~ Cesar Romero
I'm practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life.
~ C.P. Cavafy
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)
~ Charles de Gaulle
Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.
~ Paul Auster
I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.
~ Jimmy Dean
I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.
~ Yancy Butler
Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.
~ Linus Torvalds
I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times.
~ David Ginola
The year I married my American husband, I won the lottery - and I tried to give it to somebody else, because I was already approved - not the money lottery, the immigration lottery.
~ Catherine O'Hara
Well, it's not just money. I consider myself establishment right now. I'm borderline establishment, I'm hanging on by my toenails - but I'm establishment.
~ Dennis Hopper
the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.
~ Karen Hesse
I don't take drugs nor drink since 2000 and I must say that I don't think about it anymore, although like every person that was addicted and has money - I know that this can lead to temptation.
~ Anthony Kiedis
Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one episode of illness can wipe them out.
~ Zafrullah Chowdhury
I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.
~ David Mamet
Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.
~ Esther Williams
I'm particularly committed to the political people who needed defense. I understand that they're fighting a bigger war than just, "Let me go get some money for cocaine tonight."
~ Lynne Stewart