#hunger

A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#bear #become #bigger #boy #empty

Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?" He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this" -- he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose -- "distracting?" I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#humour #hunger-games #time

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition. ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#condition #human #human condition #hunger #me

I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards. ↗

— Shahrukh Khan

#call #hunger #hungry #i #many

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#ease #everywhere #exists #flesh #honour

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing. ↗

— Maxine Hong Kingston

#changes #eating #habit #hunger #neither

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#desires #dream #drink #fairy #fairy tale

I am dying of hunger. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#dying #hunger #i #i am

I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#bass #bass player #ended #even #games

Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope. ↗

— Mikhail Saakashvili

#continue #hope #hunger #jobs #lack