Hungry Quotes - Page 9

• The common denominator is that we have guys who are really hungry to show what they can do.

  Andre Iguodala

  Nba Championships, Guy, Common

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• I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Thinking, Fairy Stories, People

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• I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.

  Gary Shteyngart

  World, Want, Born

  Gary Shteyngart (2014). “Little Failure: A Memoir”, p.24, Random House

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• As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.

  James E. Faust

  Jobs, Home, Men

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• Just as a man does not desire food until he is hungry, so does he not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Men, Desire, Doe

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• So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.

  Cameron Crowe

  Diversity, Stories, Helping

  "Cameron Crowe apologises for casting Emma Stone as 'part-Asian' in Aloha". www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2015.

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• I heard Joby Talbot's Hovercraft piece for orchestra and felt its immediate physical impact - visceral, unsettling, hungry and direct. These short five minutes became our keystone to unlocking a strangely seductive score that tensions the aggressive force of the White Stripes with the enigmatic beauty of Talbot's own compositions.

  Wayne McGregor

  White, Impact, Seductive

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• I think so many great artists are flocking to LA because the downtown art scene is so vibrant, there is cheap living and you can really flourish as an artist there. There is an unbelievably supportive and really smart, talented theatre audience in LA full of young, hungry, vibrant people. It's something that sort of makes me think of what New York must have been like in its downtown theater scene in the 1980s - before my time.

  Jon Bernthal

  Art, New York, Thinking

  "BWW EXCLUSIVE: Jon Bernthal Talks WALKING DEAD Season Premiere, Theatre Background & More!". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 16, 2011.

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• The roots of creativity of cooking are hungry people trying to figure out how to take something that's not particularly fresh or tender and transform it into it something delicious that everyone will love.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Creativity, Roots, People

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• People are angry that things as common sense as securing the border and eliminating sanctuary cities are being framed as extreme views. They are tired of empty rhetoric without action, and they are hungry for a leader from outside the professional political class.

  Carly Fiorina

  Tired, Views, Class

  "Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.

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• Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food, but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die every day in childbirth, and children die every day from drinking dirty water. Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Mother, Children, Dirty

  Opening Remarks at Press Event on Day of Seven Billion, www.un.org. October 31, 2011.

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• When people get hungry and desperate, things get ugly. And I'll tell you where it's really going to get ugly: crime is going to go to levels we've never seen before.

  Gerald Celente

  People, Levels, Ugly

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• If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

  Paul Farmer

  Spiritual, Problem, Materials

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• ... In our family, if you said the words 'I feel,' they better be followed with 'hungry' or 'cold'. Because we didn't get personal, that's just how it was.

  Liz Murray

  Cold, Said, Our Family

  Liz Murray (2011). “Breaking Night”, p.7, Random House

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• And it's California, where everything is powerfully strange. Everyone wants it to be home. Everyone left where he or she was from with dreams of transformation. Everyone runs away to California at least once, or at least all the lonely, hungry people do.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Running, Dream, Lonely

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Madness: A Bipolar Life”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One time we were having dinner and some guy came by and took a potato off of Frank Sinatra's plate. And Frank said, “Hey pal, are you hungry?” The guy says, “yeah.” Frank said, “Sit down.” And he gave him his dinner. I thought for sure there was gonna be trouble from the guys surrounding Frank, but Frank says, “Jeez, relax, the man's hungry.”

  Joey Bishop

  Men, Guy, Relax

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• Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a cult; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Leader, Boards, Way

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• Three worldly things have been made dear to me: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and reading the Qur'an.

  Uthman ibn Affan

  Reading, Naked, Three

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• When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.

  Irwin Redlener

  Children, School, Fighting

  "Barack Obama and America’s Children: Can a Tragedy Refocus a Nation’s Priorities?" by Irwin Redlener, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2013.

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• As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

  William Safire

  Country, Unfinished Business, Long

  "If There's One Hungry American". www.nytimes.com. December 18, 1983.

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• The main problem in marriage is that, for a man, sex is a hunger-like eating. If the man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he'll go to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what's important is love and romance.

  Joan Fontaine

  Dog, Sex, Men

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Tom Shales

  Christian, Civilization, Hungry Lion

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• However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.

  Lionel Shriver

  Deficiency, Satiety, Meant To Be

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• I'm pringle. That's kinda like single but hungry

  Michael Clifford

  Pringles

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• But the 'project of me' can never be enough, for it does not meet 'the other,' and real living involves meeting. The touch and contact with all of life, the full freedom of non-separation, the completeness of full relationship, and the radiance of compassionate ecstasy is what we are inherently hungry for.

  Rick Jarow

  Real, Doe, Radiance

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