A Hungry Stomach Quotes

#1. A hungry stomach cannot hear.

Jean De La Fontaine

#2. The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

Paul Samuelson

#3. I'm starving my stomach is a tortured pit of starvation I'm so hungry so hungry so hungry I can't even imagine what real food must taste like.

Tahereh Mafi

#4. He heard the creaking and cracking of wood again, groaning like a living thing, like the hungry stomach of the world growling for a meal. Then

Patrick Ness

#5. And just as the hungry stomach eagerly accepts every object it can get, hoping to find nourishment in it, Vronsky quite unconsciously clutched first at politics, then at new books, and then at pictures.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. You must be hungry," said the satyr. "Either that, or your stomach speaks hedgehog. That was quite a statement in hedgehog.

Rick Riordan

#7. While most people became irritable when hungry, a redheaded person with an empty stomach was a walking time bomb.

Diana Gabaldon

#8. The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back.

John L. Lewis

#9. Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.

Rene Daumal

#10. Aren't you hungry?" he asked, distracted.
"No." I didn't feel like mentioning that my stomach was already full - of butterflies.

Stephenie Meyer

#11. ...drawn to the cities where you'd hear a voice kissing and talking deep love in every shadow of the ditch, and you passing on with an empty, hungry stomach failing from your heart...

J.M. Synge

#12. Faith on a full stomach may be simply contentment but if you have it when you're hungry, it's genuine.

Frank A. Clark

#13. Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Horace

#14. He crushed her mouth in a searing, hungry kiss. A kiss that made her stomach drop away.

Angela Quarles

#15. You are asleep. Deep, deep asleep - and then the world caves in. The cat has leapt from the top window onto your stomach. He is saturated. He is hungry. He taps you into full wakefulness with a sodden paw "Could you open a can?"

Pam Brown

#16. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food ...

Irving Stone

#17. I pushed away my dessert, suddenly no longer hungry. Resentment had a way of filling up your stomach.

Marlene Perez

#18. How miraculous it was, noted Diogenes, that whenever one felt that sort of urge, one could readily masturbate. But conversely how disheartening that one could not simply rub one's stomach when hungry.

David Markson

#19. His stomach growled again. He couldn't remember ever being this hungry. A little brown spider scurried between his shoes. He snatched it up, shoved it in his mouth, chewed, swallowed. Wait. That's not right. Allen strongly suspected he needed to be rescued.

Victor Gischler

#20. I knew at least Banalia was dead; that had happened right in front of my eyes. They would either eat her now or smoke her body to sell the meat. It made my stomach turn
the DNA in that meat was almost 99 percent the same as human DNA; it was nearly cannibalism. But the men were hungry.

Eliot Schrefer

#21. I'm a registered independent. I don't really believe in political parties. Bottom line: Mitt Romney's tax policy helps me. But I can't stomach seeing somebody go hungry or somebody not being able to get an education because I want more. So, I'm supporting Barack Obama.

Brian J. White

#22. In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach.

Lewis Mumford

#23. Are ye hungry?" she asked, her voice soothing.
His stomach growled. "I could cut the heart out of a stag and eat it raw."
She chuckled. "Fortunately, we do no' have to go to such extremes.

Amy Jarecki

#24. A full stomach allows the brain to be hungry for common sense.

Tony DiTerlizzi