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Quotes About Hunger

You know how you feel when you get full? Well, I don't get full. I can eat a lot. Mike and I were in Italy for 10 days, and I put on 8 pounds. So in real life, I have to make sure I'm not eating just to eat.
~ Carrie Underwood
When you don't have food in your life, just for a day, it makes you realise you're lucky to have it the next day. So the day after fasting, the music that comes out will be very joyous.
~ Chris Martin
We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.
~ Christina Aguilera
You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
~ Randy Jackson
I'm a person who has to eat! I graze every few hours.
~ Marisa Tomei
I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
~ David Mamet
As an actor, I am greedy.
~ Shweta Tripathi
I love food. I'm a complete foodie. I love to cook. I find it very hard to say no to food. I get grumpy if I don't get food.
~ Stephen Hunter
the problem is not the supply of food, but the inequities in the distribution system that rob the poor of the capacity to access the food.
~ Gary A. Haugen
You want to stay hungry...to learn. You get full, you get sleepy, lazy; you get lazy, you don't learn.
~ Gary Paulsen
He had read somewhere that wolves could eat up to twenty pounds of meat in a single meal and he thought the dog was coming close. She . . . just . . . kept . . . eating.
~ Gary Paulsen
All I need is some barbecue sauce," he said aloud, grease dripping down his chin. "And a Coke . . .
~ Gary Paulsen
I have a friend, he thought—I have a friend now. A hungry friend, but a good one. I have a friend named fire.
~ Gary Paulsen
hunger makes the best sauce.
~ Gary Paulsen
Something that you would normally never consider eating, something completely repulsive and ugly and disgusting, something so gross it would make you vomit just looking at it, becomes absolutely delicious if you're starving.
~ Gary Paulsen
I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.
~ Gary Shteyngart
Don't nobody ever want it to rain," the nearest of the sellers of beasts remarked philosophically, "but everybody wants to go on eatin'.
~ Gene Wolfe
My hunger fed at least as ravenously upon her imperfections.
~ Gene Wolfe
But replacing hunger for divine connection with Double Stuf Oreos is like giving a glass of sand to a person dying of thirst. It creates more thirst, more panic.
~ Geneen Roth
Women turn to food when they are not hungry because they are hungry for something they can't name: a connection to what is beyond the concerns of daily life. Something deathless, something sacred. But replacing the hunger for divine connection with Double Stuf Oreos is like giving a glass of sand to a person dying of thirst. It creates more thirst, more panic.
~ Geneen Roth
I'm glad he's hungry. Not that I want him to suffer, poor chap! But then he'll enjoy eating me much more. There's a cheerful side to everything.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them
~ George Eliot
It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love,–this hunger of the heart,–as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.
~ George Eliot
Does not the Hunger Tower stand as the type of the utmost trial to what is human in us?
~ George Eliot