So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.
The villainous sun and the starved bank did not seem related—yet.
She realized that being starved for words was the same as being starved for food, because both left a hollow place inside you, a place you needed filled to make it through another day. Rachel remembered how growing up she’d thought living on a farm with just a father was as lonely as you could be. (130)
I never starved myself.
I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.
A woman who is starved for her real soul-life may look 'cleaned up and combed' on the outside, but on the inside she is filled with dozens of pleading hands and empty mouths.
He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and dying out and floating dryly away.
When the cinematography school told me I would have no chance to get a job, I said, "It's irrelevant. " My mom was a feminist in the '20s. She taught me to be on my own, to be independent, to do what I wanted to do. I did not believe it would be difficult. It was difficult. In '66, I almost starved for a year and a half, and the only way I did not starve was because I could not find a job in camera, but I found a job in editing.
When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.
I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.
[Producers] took me to Chicago at 18 to star in a show that ran for almost a year. And that's when my parents said, "Okay, I guess you can quit Fordham. " Of course, when that show closed, as you can imagine, I came to New York and starved for years, but it's never an easy road.
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
When I got pretty good I went on the road with a group. We starved.
Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid.
There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
We are surrounded by data, but starved for insights.
Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.
Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent and generous. If our ancestors had not been that, they would have stayed in their home plots in the other world and starved over the squeezed-out soil.