Skint Quotes & Sayings

TV cookery is very like internet porn - the overwhelming majority of its audience will never ever get to act out what's happening on screen. — Skint Foodie

When Sting arrived on Tyneside in November 1992, to receive his degree, he informed me that it was no longer me who was the skint one. — James Berryman

If I had married someone wealthy when I was young, I would have sunk like a stone. Being skint makes life quite clear. You've got to take that job. — Anna Chancellor

I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim north, but because I am from a class of people who believe in work. In paying their way. — Ian Watson

If God had created celery, it would only have two stalks, because that's the most that almost any recipe ever calls for. — Skint Foodie

I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint. — Alan Hansen

It was shivery and scant. Scared. Skint. But just around the edges it was still scintillant. — Patrick Rothfuss

When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint. — Bill Nighy

I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound. — Billy Connolly

All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling. — Bill Nighy

It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job. — Mackenzie Crook