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Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance. — Gustave Flaubert

The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness. — Joseph Joubert

While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on. — Rupert Murdoch

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
Daniel H. Burnham — Erik Larson

I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well. — Christopher Rice

A point contains more unknowns than anything else; it need but stir, move, and it may turn into thousands of curves, thousands of bodies. I — Yevgeny Zamyatin

I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London. — Fergus Henderson

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know. — Sigmund Freud

Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into children's hands. — Charlotte Mason

We cannot prepare our fate, but we can stir it up. — Munia Khan

When we are waiting upon God to bless us, we should stir up ourselves to bless him. — Matthew Henry

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. — Edward Abbey

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity. — Peter O'Toole

And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner. — Jane Austen

You can't be too careful how you stir up a policeman. — P.G. Wodehouse

I always had the desire to entertain people, whether it was to make 'em laugh or to scare 'em or stir things up just to cause problems. — Marilyn Manson

He contained, even at an early age, a stirring and the desire to stir. — Patti Smith

Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare' — Anthony Giddens

The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves. — John Stuart Mill

To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold. — Henry Miller

Don't stir the tea with your penis. — Jag Bhalla

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone. — Thomas Carlyle

The horse is an archetypal symbol which will always find ways to stir up deep and moving ancestral memories in every human being. — Paul Mellon

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience. — Henry Waxman

There comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

Soups are a great way to introduce a lot of vegetables to kids. Stir-fries, too, because they contain so many different shapes and colors. — Emeril Lagasse

My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems. — Akio Morita

Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins. — Henry James

I'm so super interested in what it is to stir things up and to listen to people. — Thomas Sadoski

If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste. — Jonathan Swift

Sustained negative flashbacks can stir a heart attack. — T.F. Hodge

On your 60th, here's something philosophical
To give the old grey matter a stir
How old would you be
If you didn't know how old you were? — John Walter Bratton

She did not know why she could not move. It was as in a dream when the heart strains and the body cannot stir. — D.H. Lawrence

Take a pinch of belief in God, add a dash of desire to experience God, stir in emotion to taste, and you have a recipe for religious experience. — Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart. — William Wordsworth

The harder it has been for a son of earth to win freedom,
The more mightily does he stir his fellow man. — Conrad Ferdinand Meyer

Saute onions in hot oil. When tender, mix in chicken, garlic and celery. Stir well. Add — N.T. Alcuaz

Like the first breath of living wind to the sailor becalmed and starving, I felt hope stir. — Mary Stewart

Its a beautiful day.I think I'll skip my meds and stir things up a bit_Bumper Sticker — Darynda Jones

For every establishment there is a stir-up virtue — Sunday Adelaja

I don't want to stir up a can of worms. — Alan Brazil

And I'll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads - the won't stir by day, only by dark on the river. — Virginia Woolf

For where belief dwells, the spider may not stir, neither by day nor by night. — Jeremias Gotthelf

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers. — Mitch Albom

One of the things that interests me about the Regency period is how women began to stir under the thumbs of men, wanting more and bigger freedoms. — Julia London

Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface. — Bryan Davis

Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves. — William Wordsworth

Don't stir all the warmth out of your coffee; drink it. — Kate Chopin

1 cup thawed onion stir fry and frozen bell pepper ½ lb — Stacey Turner

All I can do is lie here, brain turning somersaults. It's nights like these when memories stir, whipping themselves into stiff peaks of pain. — Ellen Hopkins

The only thing I've cooked while entertaining is stir-fry. — Robert Webb

I wanted to come up with a hybrid show of sorts that wasn't your traditional 'dump and stir' type of cooking show. — Debi Mazar

I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir. — David Bowie

Tall oaks branch charmed by the earnest stars Dream and so dream all night without a stir. — John Keats

It was pizza. Someone had stir-fried a pizza. — Cassandra Clare

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star. — Francis Thompson

Total transparency risks country's stability. — Toba Beta

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. — Abraham Lincoln

You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. — Oscar Wilde

Sometimes it is the emotional experience of film and television that bring a cause to our hearts and stir us to action - they inform and inspire. — Lee Hirsch

A thought can prompt. Words can stir. But it takes action to attain a dream. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Make no small plans. They have no magic to stir men's souls. — Spencer W. Kimball

And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain. — Jean Ingelow

All unquiet things,
which stir too strongly the soul's secret springs — George Gordon Byron

Old powers waken. Shadows stir. An age of wonder and terror will soon be upon us, and age for gods and heroes. — George R R Martin

My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her arm would fall off. — Leo Buscaglia

You fog the mind, you stir the soul. — Robbie Robertson

She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite! — Salman Rushdie

I definitely feel most at home in New York City, although I get stir-crazy if I'm here too long. — Martha Hunt

Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page. — Bill Moyers

Hatred does not stir the stone men half so much as hunger. — George R R Martin

Sympathy can turn so quickly. Just add fear. Stir. — Jack Ketchum

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them. — P.G. Wodehouse

If you are aware of the kind of hunger, regrets and frustrations that follows rumpy pumpy, you would stir clear from hanky panky. — Michael Bassey Johnson

All our relationships, especially the deep ones, stir up the deepest issues for us that we need to confront and work with. — Shakti Gawain

I ain't no hipster, but girl I can make your hips stir. — Mac Miller

Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star. — Francis Thompson

Relying only on logic, on what can be factually established, may inform or intimidate, but it will rarely stir anyone into action or change. — Charlotte Beers

I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir. — Sylvia Plath

Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. — William Shakespeare

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving. — Yann Martel

not stir up or awaken love until it pleases. — Anonymous

When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir. — Tina Fey

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop. — Maria Montessori

I felt something stir within me. It took a moment to recognise it. Anger. — Alison Goodman

The set pieces of your faces stir me - leading citizens - but not in the same way. — William Carlos Williams

Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude. — Michel De Montaigne

When you been in stir a little while, you can smell a question comin' from hell to breakfast. — John Steinbeck

I hope he's just a scoundrel . . . because a saint can stir up ten times as much mischief as a scoundrel. — Robert A. Heinlein

Ah, fairest maiden, thine beauty doth maketh mine loins stir, and mine cup runneth over. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them. — P.G. Wodehouse

When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves. — Dale Carnegie

Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make. — Mary Ellen Chase

Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart. — Mason Cooley

Create and stir other people to create. — Robert Frost

My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion. — Casey Affleck

To strive endlessly to stir the venturesome spirit that moves you to follow a rainbow to its end ... and thus make your travel dreams come true. — Wally Byam

The infinite is a light sleeper. The moment the self awakens, the force of the infinite begins to stir. — John O'Donohue

Sometimes, the simple messages are the best thing music can do, really. Sometimes, songs can stir people up, motivate them to make change. — Jack Johnson