Stimulating Quotes
169 quotes by 160 authors
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There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative…
— Sidney Sheldon
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In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than…
— Jane Smiley
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I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.
— Alex Tabarrok
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I'm a warrior at heart; I'm an ex-Navy Seal. I'm too old to wage war anymore, and so now I wage it mentally. And so…
— Jesse Ventura
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
— Barbara Walters
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If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In…
— Viswanathan Anand
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Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
— Don DeLillo
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There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on…
— H. L. Mencken
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I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse…
— Betty MacDonald
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An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
— Agatha Christie
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You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice,…
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.
— Dodie Smith
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To stay vigorous, a company needs to provide a stimulating and challenging environment for all these types: the dreamer, the entrepreneur, the professional manager, and…
— Howard Schultz
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I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving…
— Albert Einstein
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God, it was good. Comforting and stimulating at the same time. Absolute world-class pheromones. I wished I could take his jacket home with me. Not…
— Lisa Kleypas
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Pens?" Chase echoed. Bridget rolled her eyes. "Pens are by far more stimulating than most people." "I'm kind of wondering what you're going with those…
— J. Lynn
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