Starving Quotes

Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Most women are starving to receive something from a man that they need to give to themselves.

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

The planet on which we live is poorly organized, many areas are overpopulated, others are reserved for a few, technology's potential is only in part realized, and most people are starving.

To feed applied science by starving basic science is like economising on the foundations of a building so that it may be built higher. It is only a matter of time before the whole edifice crumbles.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

If you were starving and had all the time in the world, would you stop eating the greatest slice of cake on earth halfway through? Then why would you quit on your dreams?

Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!

You’re disgusting when you eat,” Chuck said, sitting on the bench next to him. “It’s like watching a starving pig eat his own klunk.

In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.

Please, I don't want anybody to think I'm starving, I'm not. My health is perfect, actually.

Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.

When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne!

The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love.” from “Memoriam

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

Nothing is sacred. Not even your own mother, not the Jewish martyrs, not even people starving of hunger. Laugh at everything, ferociously, bitterly, to exorcise the old monsters.

I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

It’s like watching a starving pig eat his own klunk.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.

I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.

Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.

Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.

The plain fact is that we are starving people, not deliberately in the sense that we want them to die, but wilfully in the sense that we prefer their death to our own inconvenience.

Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.

Reciting part of a sutra with the desire to benefit others is like reciting a recipe in the hope it will prevent people from starving.

Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.

Always remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation.

Starving for a high, a place to hang out inside my own head. Starving for touch. Pain, even. A way to feel. I need to feel.

Allow yourself emotion-backed demands only for physical necessities such as air to breathe, food if starving, and shelter if freezing.

We are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

You don't get the attention of gluttons by starving anorexics.

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.

We honor founders of these starving cities, Whose honor is the image of our sorrow.

It's really hard to find materials. Also, prices of metal have gone completely through the roof, insanely expensive. And if you go to a dictionary and look up starving artist, you'll see my picture.

It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations.

Farmers in America ... are pretty large in general. Their farms are also large. But farmers in the rest of the world are quite skinny, and that's because they're starving.

Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love.

When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.

Starving research and development is like eating the seed corn.

We are all children starving to experience and know the heart of reality.

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.