Hungry Quotations

America is hungry for people who believe in something.

Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV.

I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town: the one who always has a book in one hand and is reaching for the next book with the other. There's one in every town.

I had a great childhood. Even though I never had my own room - I shared the porch with my grandfather and kept my belongings in one drawer of a dresser that was jammed next to the piano - I never went hungry and was always supported by my family.

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

We were so hungry for 'Sex and the City' that even though it was heightened and written by gay men, we just needed to see different women on television. Give us another movie.

The deaf community is hungry to see itself in the most positive way.

When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

Big meetings and big talk are not enough in a world that is hungry for change. Big action - world leaders keeping their promises, and developing countries committing resources while listening ardently to the voice of the small farmer - is needed to bring big results and prosperity to the world's poor.

Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry

Simple formula for the actor: prove you're creative enough to get the job, sane enough to keep the job, and hungry enough to give up everything else to keep them happy.

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

All I can say is that I have arrived with the desire to be a success at Barca, that I am hungry to win titles.

When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.

Elections do have consequences, and those we elect and far too often re-elect have forgotten how government works and for whom they work for, and that an ever growing, power hungry state and federal government are not the answer to the problem, but 80% of the time are the problem.

Doesn't matter if I'm right or wrong - if I'm hungry or hot, I'm probably arguing with someone about something. Especially if that someone is rude.

I always have a funny story at communion time that underscores that no one is perfect, and that communion is not for perfect people but for hungry people.

Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.

I loved gymnastics. I was eager to compete. I was hungry to go out there and be the best in the world, and I had that determination.

We were young, we were pilots, and we were hungry to test the new technology of 'space machines.' And we all wanted to be first.

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.

I'm active, but I just don't like being hungry or feeling like I've deprived myself. I want to enjoy life.

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming.

If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter.

We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life.

We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

What I have is a bunch of really hungry, amazingly talented guys that can kick anybody's rear end.

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

I really love good food occasionally, but I need time to enjoy it, and I need to be hungry.

Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you're a smart businessman, but if you take advantage of something so you don't go hungry, you're a moocher?

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

I'm a registered independent. I don't really believe in political parties. Bottom line: Mitt Romney's tax policy helps me. But I can't stomach seeing somebody go hungry or somebody not being able to get an education because I want more. So, I'm supporting Barack Obama.

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.

You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.

Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.

There's nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you're gonna eat it.

I think listeners are hungry to hear quality.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering.

One of the more bizarre games I played as a kid was something called 'kill the man.' It was a cross between football and rugby, which found the person carrying the ball a target of some hungry tacklers. I still don't know why we enjoyed the game because it was impossible to win.

A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.

Haitians don't like to say they are hungry because we are proud.

There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way.

People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I.

Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.

When I come in from the beach at night, I'm too hungry to wait for anything that takes very long.

At Andreessen Horowitz, we talk about the notion of being 'too hungry to eat.' That's to say, we often see startups that are so entrenched in the product that the founders forget they need muscle to grow.

You eat when you're hungry, and I'm not normally hungry in the mornings.

I eat a lot of fruit after I run. I find that hydrates me better than just drinking water. I have fruit already cut up for after a run, so when I'm done I can chow on cantaloupe or watermelon. It's so satisfying, and that probably keeps me from being too hungry for other things.

Cooking involves a deadline and hungry people and ingredients that expire in a week. It's stressful. Cooking happens on the stove and on the clock. Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.

Eating when you're not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting.

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

The process and the great smells it produces make everyone hungry and get everyone's mouth watering. And it gives men a chance to cook.

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

As women, we understand our bodies, and there's a blossoming that occurs. We're hungry for gourmet meals instead of the fast food. We bring to life a more expansive understanding of life, ourselves, and others. We are more generous and assertive.

Since I did the SK Project and I partner with the United Nations World Food Program, I got a lot of different feedback from people online. Through social networks and through the Twitter. I read the comments and see 'em saying, 'People hungry here, Fif.'

As much as my parents were worried about me moving to London at 17, they could see that I was hungry to find my path. And it probably helped that they saw me succeeding at it, slowly but surely.

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.

Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can't be entertained - or people who are afraid. You can't entertain a man who has no food.

Romcoms are challenging, but I'm hungry for drama.

I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.

Several countries - among them Austria, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, India, Israel and Sweden - ban or severely restrict the use of wild animals in circuses. In Brazil, a movement to ban wild animals from circuses started after hungry lions managed to grab and devour a small boy.

I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.

I tried therapy. This had never appealed to me. For me, it was a bit like a Chinese meal: very filling at the time, but then an hour later you're hungry again.

Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour of getting up.

I was hungry to catch the ball. I caught it twice.

I would definitely say right now we're as hungry and fired up as we've ever been. We've got youthfulness, (and) we've got excitement back in the team.

Nobody is going to go hungry if they want barbecue, though. We've lined up a good group of vendors who'll have plenty of barbecue for sale.

Nick is so hungry for a championship. I remember when we lost to San Antonio in the Western Conference finals. I had never really seen Nick that emotional. All he had on his mind was trying to get back ... trying to get back. I think that's why when that trade happened he took it so hard.

When the king makes a demand, and it is met, the bond is established. When the hungry man eats, he is satisfied, and the bond is established. In the famine, the rain fills the streams to overflowing, and the bond is established.

My girls are playing the way they're supposed to. They're aggressive, they're hungry and they want to play.

None will reach the more ambitious (1996) World Food Summit goal of halving the number of hungry people.

Monmouth is a really good team, and we better be prepared for them. They will come in here hungry because we beat them at their place. We need to play hard against them the entire game. We can't let them win at our home.

Maybe a wounded bear is the hungriest bear. We have to come out and act like we're the wounded bear - like we're hungry and like we want it. If we do that opening night, that will show.

Nat played very well. He looked hungry again and will be looking at Monday's game to get back in the team.

I have every confidence come Wednesday night our team will be hungry and focused.

I don't have enough fingers (to count). I don't think we did anything well. Aliquippa is a much hungrier basketball team. We are fat, and they are hungry -- and it's showing.

I don't judge these things by numbers. How many people read 'Paradise Lost' when it was published? Two hundred? Three? As long as there's one reader, the book is doing what a book does. Books are irreplaceable, because they're the only place in the universe where two strangers can meet on absolutely intimate terms. We need to tell stories as human beings. People are as hungry for that as they have ever been.

If we can go up and learn those lanes and shoot like this, I'll take my chances. There will be some tough teams and it's a new environment. It's wild, exciting, unbelievable. I'm glad they get a chance to experience that as such a young team -- it should make them hungry to do it again.

No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo

I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.

Since I came here, I always gave La Salle respect. Coming up through the ranks, they didn't get a lot of respect. They're a real hungry team, and they've always been that way. They've obviously been through some changes, but I give them respect. Those guys play hard.

Since (the mother dog) was hungry herself, she could only feed (the puppies) a short time. So the puppies were on their own with no one to take care of them.

Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich.

Mike looked awesome. That's a guy who's hungry to get out there and play.