Starving Quotes

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

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 am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.

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

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.

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

When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one.

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.

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

My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat.

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.'

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

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