Richard K. Morgan

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.

English Author

Alexander Armstrong

So, if I ever find myself hankering for the long, respectful silences of the olden days, I remind myself that classical music broadcasting was a whisker away from becoming one long silence itself.

English Actor

Howard Jacobson

You don't have to believe the electorate secretly hankers for a dose of Marxist-Leninism to accept that there are deep levels of justified bitterness out there waiting to be tapped.

British Novelist

Mariella Frostrup

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.

British Journalist

James Dean

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

Actor

Antara Mali

I never really hankered after big roles and films.

Indian Actress

Michael Ball

I'd always had this hankering to try some opera.

Adam Weishaupt

The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

German Clergyman

Ian McShane

Milkha Singh

Indian Athlete

Conveys a deep emotional desire, more than just wanting something casually.

Intensity of Longing

Use 'hanker' when expressing a heartfelt or personal craving, not for everyday needs.

Often Emotional

Suitable for whims or wishes without urgency, not for immediate, critical desires.

Not for Urgent Needs

Expresses a desire to do something, not just to possess or experience.

Action-Oriented

Can be used to express a yearning for cultural or life experiences.

Cultural Dreams

Implies a lingering desire over time, not a spontaneous whim.

Not Instant

 sort of keeping track of their monkey token, as it were. Do the monkeys do anything like this? And so our monkey marketplace was born. The way this works is that our monkeys normally live in a kind of big zoo social enclosure. When they get a hankering for some treats,

Laurie Santos: How...

 which he says that man is poor not who has little but who hankers after more and of course I'm not suggesting that anybody here go to a monastery that's not the point but I do think it's only

Hanker