Quotes About Hunger

I was like one who forgets all day to eat until the scent from some other's roasting pan reminds her she's ravenous.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.

When you get hungry enough, you find yourself speaking Spanish pretty well.

When liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people: it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.

Nouvelle cuisine, roughly translated, means "I can't believe I spent ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry."

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.

Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat.

Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.

Sometimes I just want to gobble you whole, eat you alive. You're so gorgeous. You're so beautiful.

Neither of them knew what it was to be family, to have family, to make a family. They knew cruelty, abuse, abandonment. She wondered if that was why they had come together. They both understood what it was to have nothing, to know fear and hunger and despair- and both had remade themselves.

If only we could eat our sunsets, I say, we would all be full.

Vengeance is like a fire. The more it devours, the hungrier it gets.

Tenemos hambre pero no de pan (eso nos dan de comer todos los benditos días, pan con frijoles en salsa de tomate) sino de la palabra, la palabra flamígera que nos revele por qué estamos aquí.

Okay, you shouldn't be able to sit up," Manny muttered. Was he? Oh, hey, check it… And as for the doctor's second dose of surprise? Nice guy, but he was being a dumb-ass human when it came to the feeding thing. With this kind of hunger for that particular female? Tohr was frickin' Superman, capable of bench-pressing a Hummer while he juggled Smart Cars with his free hand.

He [Vishous] was all need, no ease.

Marissa laughed, utterly delighted with her mate. Later. Food first. Butch settled back immediately, like she'd called his lust to a heel and it behaved because it wanted to be a good boy. As she left, the cop's eyes followed her with rank hunger and adoration. V shook his head. You are a total sap.

McDonald's, he thought. Why couldn't she have wanted Mickey D's. Or Pizza Hut. Taco Hell—

May I take your vein for a moment? I find myself... curiously depleted Okay, right. Talk about your Johnny-on-the-spots: He locked them in and all but tore off his arm and threw it at her.