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  • Gratitude is the best food to start and sustain you. Hankering creates hunger, unhappiness, bellyache, headache and heartache - and often leaves a bitter taste -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
  • The hankering of the mind is irresistible. -- Adam Weishaupt
  • I still want magic, I find. The old fashioned kind. I don't believe in it, but I still have a hankering for it. -- Glen Duncan
  • People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days. -- Julie Burchill
  • This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship. -- Eddy Arnold
  • Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway. -- Mindy Kaling
  • I can't sleep in an isolated place without pills, earplugs, and both my children in bed with me for fear of scary, feral characters with a hankering for the wilderness. -- Mariella Frostrup
  • I'm usually writing in English, and then I'll get the hankering to change channels. And usually I'll do that when I want to try a whole new set of keys, like musical keys. -- Juan Felipe Herrera
  • For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing. -- Jon Bon Jovi
  • I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of other people's imagination, I've played parts I would never have thought I could do. Still, I've never had a hankering or an ambition for any particular role. -- John Hurt
  • As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head. -- Nick Park
  • Some years ago, I fired my agent, Andrew Wylie, alias The Jackal. I want to stress this wasn't an amicable parting of the ways or a hankering on my part for fresh representation. I fired him because his agency wasn't doing enough for me. -- Tibor Fischer
  • There's nothing that can replicate the smoky flavor of char, so when I've got the hankering for it, I tell my wife that I'm taking care of dinner. I have three different types of barbecues - a coal, gas and smoker - so I can experiment a lot. -- Guy Fieri
  • I'd always had a hankering to write some old-school sword and sorcery. And there certainly are advantages to that particular form - for one thing, you're able to go all-out on the imaginative front, with a lot less concern for the usual unities of time and space and character. -- Richard K. Morgan
  • In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing. -- Mary Garden
  • When you get a hankering to talk or complain about what you gave up for Lent, replace that hankering by speaking the word of God. For all the times you would have done the activity that you gave up for Lent, replace it by reading the word of God. Christians should always be drawing closer to God. -- Monica Johnson
  • Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Wasted is when you have a hankering for ice cream. -- Adam Sandler
  • My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society. -- James Dean
  • The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible. -- Storm Jameson
  • The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars. -- Russell Baker
  • There's no point in just hankering for the big trade unions of the 1950s or '60s. -- Duncan Green
  • I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking. -- Lin Yutang
  • When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home. -- Sun Tzu
  • Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as absolute a demarcation as a full stop." -- Victor Klemperer
  • The disciple is not hankering for knowledge; he wants to see, not to know. He wants to be. He is no longer interested in having more knowledge; he wants to have more being. -- Rajneesh
  • A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men. -- Bertrand Russell
  • Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible. -- Adam Weishaupt
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