My parents were very strapped for cash when we were…

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

— Jonathan Coe

When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins.

— J. R. Celski

It's a dreadful thing to be strapped for cash when you are elderly. It's awful when you're young, too, but you always have hope.

— June Brown

Nancy Reagan actually took some movies that she didn't want to take because they were [with Ronald Reagan] really strapped for cash.

— Cynthia Nixon

“I’m strapped for cash, and I’m also strapped to a chair in someone’s basement.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I'm trying to figure out how much I need to deposit into the Kate-have-a-good-time fund," he said. "It's pretty empty.You might have to make…

— Rachel Hawthorne

Why, just a couple of economic seasons ago, was idle cash considered an indication of bad management or lazy management? Because it meant that…

— Malcolm Forbes

Growing up, we weren't poor, but we didn't have money to spare.

— Rachel Reeves

We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in the West.…

— Vijay Mallya

Empowering women in the workforce is a key to growing the economy and having a thriving middle class.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

After I graduated, I carried on with my academic work, via grants but I often had a market stall on Camden Market selling hand-painted…

— Bettany Hughes

“It’s me,” he says softly. “Stop listening to everything else. Remember the way you feel when I’m kissing you and touching you. Don’t think with your…

— M. Leighton

Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.

— Walter Sickert

A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

— Esther Meynell

“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.”

— Terry Pratchett