Stir Quotes

313 Stir quotes by 263 unique authors

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… — Jane Austen
In her enthusiasms she had always looked for something tangible: she had always loved church for its flowers, music for its romantic words, literature for… — Gustave Flaubert
The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness.… — Soren Kierkegaard
...I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of… — Barbara Kingsolver
The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling… — Carl Sagan
Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance. — Gustave Flaubert
I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of… — Mahatma Gandhi
I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming… — Oscar Wilde
For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where… — Ray Bradbury
Ash, ash —- You poke and stir. Flesh, bone, there is nothing there—— A cake of soap, A wedding ring, A gold filling. Herr God,… — Sylvia Plath
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men’s blood: I only speak right… — William Shakespeare
I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth… — Douglas Coupland
We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private "home" of… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To… — Yukio Mishima
She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her… — Oscar Wilde
No offense, but I’m getting stir-crazy. Can we please go downstairs and hang in the bar or do anything that keeps me from sitting here… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
He stopped and looked at her. "Your eyes are leaking." "It's the flowers. They make me sneeze." "Then let us be away from the garden.… — Lynn Kurland
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
When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my… — Tom Stoppard
I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your concretized myths and… — Harlan Ellison
The thing is, you throw brains and souls into an animal and stir, you don’t really know what you’re going to get. — Laini Taylor
I quizzed him a lot on this point and i suspect the truth was that it was like a lot of things at that age:… — Kazuo Ishiguro
But you must stop playing among his ghosts -- it's stupid and dangerous and completely pointless. He's trying to lay them to rest here, not… — Patricia A. McKillip
Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top. — Tom Robbins
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

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