Starving Quotes

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.

Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.

And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.

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

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of 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.

My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer.

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

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

I was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times...I didn't know where the next pay check was gonna come.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

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

When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'

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

We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

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

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.

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

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality.