Starving Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.'

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.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

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

I run like an electric golf cart. Now I look at eating as a way to feed my body and keep me younger. It's not about starving your body, but treating your body like a Ferrari. You don't put in the crappiest gas you can find. You use supreme. In the long term, you'll run clean.

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.

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.

Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.

I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio.

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.

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

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.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

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

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.

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.