Craving Quotations

People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.

I know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that.

When you gradually add in nutrient-dense, fiber-rich foods, you simply stop feeling cravings. You run out of space in your belly for the old junk. Instead of craving, you feel full, fulfilled, and content.

What we've learned is that if you can make the right decision in the supermarket aisle, it's a heck of a lot easier to make a good decision when you reach in your cupboard when you're craving a snack at eight o'clock at night.

I was blessed in the sense that I got handed so much early on in life. I got a lot of the things people go through their 20s and 30s craving.

We have been brainwashed into craving a diet that is killing us. What we believe tastes good is generally what we have been socially conditioned to enjoy.

Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant example of womanly immorality in the present.

I was sleeping all week, but I just tasted blood right there. You're craving it when you haven't tasted it in a while. Now I'm thirsty for more.

Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives us a greater sense of infinity than if we were to spend all our days with our eyes hypnotically glued to the giant telescope at Mt. Palomar. What we see ultimately is that the placebo isn't really necessary and that the mind can carry out its difficult and wondrous missions unprompted by little pills. The placebo is only a tangible object made essential in an age that feels uncomfortable with intangibles, an age that prefers to think that every inner effect must have an outer cause. Since it has size and shape and can be hand-held, the placebo satisfies the contemporary craving for visible mechanisms and visible answers . The placebo, then, is an emissary between the will to live and the body.

From the beginning of humanity some have been under a compulsion to ask these questions, and have felt a craving for the answers.

I felt like we had the opportunity to do something special. I got the feeling that these guys really wanted me here. I think we've got a tremendous opportunity to win, and win very quickly. I know this town is craving a winner and we're going to get one.

Hunger, I discovered, is very much a matter of the mind, and as I began to study my own appetites, I saw that my teenage craving had not really been for food. That ravenous desire had been a yearning for love, attention, appreciation. Food had merely been my substitute.

He was hanging his head, his coat wouldn't turn - it was almost like he was depressed, ... Richard decided he was craving attention, so he moved him to a paddock near their house. His wife and daughter started feeding and playing with him every day. The horse perked right up, and when Richard went to training him, he was better than ever. After his second five-eighths, Richard told me, 'This horse has another Breeders' Cup in him.'

I always like balance. If I'm playing rock music all the time, chances are I'll start craving some lighter, poppier stuff, both to listen to and to play. I compare music to massage. If someone's been working on your back for a long time, you really want them to move down to your legs or something.

If we look at the nation that President Bush leads, it also behaves in many ways like an addict. The United States is a gigantic John Candy of a country, straining its oversized elasticated pants from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The country is addicted to more or less everything, constantly craving greater and greater quantities of petrol, electricity, pointless sports, empty patriotism, fatty hormone-crammed meat, gigantic pedestrian-crushing four-wheel drive trucks, ever more baseball caps with nonsense written on them and unquestioning obedience from every nation on the planet.

Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again.

With all the hard work, heart becomes the biggest thing and your mind set of wanting to get to the state tournament; just craving it.

The craving that an alcoholic feels for alcohol can be as strong as the need for food or water, ... An alcoholic will continue to drink despite serious family, health, or legal problems.

We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.

Waffles. Im craving waffles." Bex rolled onto her side. "Tell your waffles hi for me.

This whole town is excited. They have been craving for something special since the beginning.

It was somehow degrading, craving someone so... voraciously - another good calendar word - just because he was physically beautiful. I hadn't thought that was something women did, either.

We grew up watching Woody Allen and Albert Brooks movies, and we see this neurotic, annoying, unlikeable male at the center of a story, and people root for him anyway. I think that's really what we have been craving as women is the hero who doesn't look perfect and doesn't act perfectly.

Every day, the public needs to know the progress that's been made, ... They're craving information, every little thing.

Those who have departed, after craving for temporary wealth, have returned home without this temporary wealth.

Books cannot always please, however good;/ Minds are not ever craving for their food.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Some (dogs) can be mellow but this one is craving to do something.

I've never believed in dieting, but there are people out there who have problems. My advice would be don't ever stop yourself to a point where you start craving something, because you end up bingeing. I think the key word is moderation.

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding.

Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.

You play like a child, craving sweets; moment by moment, you become more entangled in emotional attachment.

I hope that we shall have leisure from war, -- war commercial, as well as war of the bullet and the bayonet; leisure from the knowledge that darkens counsel; leisure above all from the greed of money, and the craving for that overwhelming distinction that money now brings: I believe that, as we have even now partly achieved liberty , so we shall achieve equality , and best of all, fraternity , and so have leisure from poverty and all its griping, sordid cares.

Consumers are craving greater bandwidth, and now with the AT&T Elite service, they no longer have to choose between a blazing-fast speed and a great price; they can get both. Consumers will be hard-pressed to find this speed at a better price, for a full 12 months, from one of our leading competitors.

Their desperate craving for simplicity sure can create complications. And their pitiful longing for certainty sure can make things unsteady.

The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.

We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.

This thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul that you are unable to satiate through all the success that the world can bring this is your soul screaming for God.

After meeting so many people around town that loved that station, the music and what it offered, I felt that St. Louis was craving a new smooth-jazz listening experience. I set out to create just that.

I hated myself for needing him at such times, for craving his strength whenever I felt upset.

You don't want to love--your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

It seems like at Purdue and then the Chargers and then to here -- it's kind of a situation where maybe they had a couple of rough seasons. The community was just craving that winner. And maybe there was a change, like a new coach, a new attitude and you're just able to step in and become a winner. That's what we did at Purdue and at San Diego, and now we plan on doing that here.

I took the GED, and left the option open to go to school. I did go to business school but left after four months because I just didn't want to be a puppet of society, stuck in an office, craving some sunlight.

However, many times the craving passes only temporarily.

Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.

Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

... nothing satisfies the craving of most women so much as scandal.

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.

The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.

The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

No craving void left aching in the soul.

I now perceive one immense omission in my psychology -- the deepest principle of Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.