Quotes About Hunger

Desire is the essence of a man.

For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

Man, who don't like spaghetti?

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Get out from that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans. Well, roll my breakfast cause I'm a hungry man.

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

This fire in me, it's not just the hunger of a woman for a man - it's the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher!

Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

There is poetry in a pork chop to a hungry man.

When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne!

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.

At the working man's house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.

As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.

There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the palate.

PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT to be thoroughly drunk and immune to hunger

Guilt is always hungry, don't let it consume you.

He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.

There is tenderness only in the coarsest demand: that no-one shall go hungry any more.

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.