Quotes About Hunger

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

While you fear missing a meal, you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.

There is a particular whir of agitation about female hunger, a low-level thrumming of shoulds and shouldn'ts and can'ts and wants that can be so chronic and familiar it becomes a kind of feminine Muzak, easy to dismiss, or to tune out altogether, even if you're actively participating in it.

I didn't know who she was, but I knew she was hungry, so I started handing out $100 bills and called the office and told them to bring me a bunch more. Then I had my cousin's store deliver a bunch of smoked ham and turkeys. I mean, these people are hungry and living under a bridge.

I love Turner Network television; I love Adult Swim. That's actually how I got my start on Cartoon Network was through Adult Swim, originally. I had a special appearance on 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force!'

I defended my Strikeforce belt twice, and you didn't see me lose any of my intensity, drive, or motivation. That's just the way I am. I will always be hungry.

The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.

I'm the kind of person who always wants more.

With every smell, I smell food. With every sight, I see food. I can almost hear food. I want to spade the whole lot through my mouth at Mach 2. Basta!

Saul Bellow has that character in Henderson the Rain King say: "I want, I want, I want!"9 I remember reading this passage years ago and thinking, yes, that's the human.

I think that what people always want is what they don't have a lot of...

Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.

Want! You must want something. What do you want?

I'm an audience member first. My inspiration is still based on hunger. Often, when people try to tell me "nobody wants that story; I'm like bullshit because I want it."

I'm not sure what it is that I want, but I feel it deep in the pit of my stomach. It's there sitting dormant. I'll know it when I see it.

Probably my biggest challenge is not eating all the food that I want to eat sometimes.

Nothing makes men sharper than want.

Kids don't seem to recognize when they're hungry until they're starving and in the emergency zone, so I'm like, "Who wants some apple slices and cheese?"

Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.

It's not that people want too much, it's that they want too little.