#arouse

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#babies #buddhists #cannibalism #disgust #feed

When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#arouse #going #hell #hell is #know

A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener. ↗

— Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

#arouse #audience #cannot #feel #his

Perversion is just another form of art. It's like painting or drawing or sculpting. Except instead of paint, us perverts use sex as our medium.  ↗

— C.M. Stunich

#erotic #erotic-literature #erotica #excite #form-of-art

Wars come and wars go,' he said. 'Things change, but the carousel is always here. It reminds people of the good times. ↗

— Glenda Millard

#good-times #remind #war #change

And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#life #time #life

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#belongs #carousel #did #ever #first

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#arouse #art #bad #does #even

His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen. ↗

— Theodore White

#beast #best #him #his #kitchen

My favorite part of a roller-coaster ride is when you're going up and you're slightly scared and really excited. You don't know what's coming next but you know it's going to be good. You can't handle it, go on the carousel. ↗

— Gina Gershon

#coming #excited #favorite #go #going