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Quotes About Hunger

The term fed up actually comes from falconry. When you train a falcon, you train it by hunger, using it as a tool to manipulate the bird's psychology. So when the bird has had too much to eat, it won't cooperate and gets annoyed by any attempts to tell it what to do. It simply sits in the top of a tree and sulks. It is fed up.
~ Douglas Adams
the first phase is characterized by the question How can we eat?, the second by the question Why do we eat?, and the third by the question Where shall we have lunch?
~ Douglas Adams
He had run out of patience and pencils and was feeling very hungry.
~ Douglas Adams
They'd ended up ordering pizza.
~ Douglas Preston
Evolution extracts a price. What is the price? Sickness, old age, and death; tragedy, hunger, sorrow, pain, and suffering—all these must exist in order for evolution to operate. Without death there can be no evolution.
~ Douglas Preston
Hungry wailing standeth not aloof.
~ Aeschylus
Alas," murmured Poirot to his mustaches, "that one can only eat three times a day ...
~ Agatha Christie
Murder is a nasty business on an empty stomach.
~ Agatha Christie
Nineteen, twenty, my plate's empty.' But the reader's plate is full
~ Agatha Christie
The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.
~ Al Gore
It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry.
~ Alan Ladd
But I was too hungry to think very deeply. I looked around the plaza, weighing up my chances, and rubbed the bow with rosin to give it grip. You need friction to play beautiful notes.
~ Alastair Humphreys
Every day, I wake up and ask, 'Am I hungry?' If I'm physically hungry, I eat something that's hopefully good for me, and then do it again in a few hours. If I get a phone call I don't like, I'll say to myself, 'Is that the reason I want to eat something?' If it is, I try not to do it. It's literally a lifestyle.
~ Lisa Lampanelli
I can never finish a burger, and even if it's just a millimetre, I'll leave it. I don't know why I can't finish it. I don't know if it is physiological, but I just feel like I'm full halfway through it.
~ Sara Sampaio
I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food.
~ Star Jones
I'm not picky. When I'm hungry, I eat.
~ Sidney Crosby
Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
~ Ralph Bakshi
He has ambition and hunger, but I would not say Messi is the only piece of art at Barca.
~ Luis Enrique
I miss being able to pig out sometimes.
~ Elvis Duran
I did the 'Gunsmoke' pilot for $250. We were all so hungry, we would have done anything.
~ Amanda Blake
I always have the hunger to score, to be on the pitch and finish the team's moves.
~ Edinson Cavani
Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.
~ Tina Brown
Once you taste the sweet honey, you want more of that.
~ Garbine Muguruza
There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
~ Kate Winslet