#stimulate

I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#film #foreign #got #i #new

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. ↗

— William James

#cold #criticisms #crushed #dry #due

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#attract #gets #heart #him #his

There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#movement #something #stimulates #vehicles #writing

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#fear #ferocity #herd #instinct #members

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. ↗

— Willa Cather

#behind #cloak #down #due #edge

I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#awareness #big #fun #go #going

For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#cycle #especially #fluctuations #interested #investments

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#desire #everything #includes #live #stimulates

In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don't just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#comfort #create #dialogue #egos #flatter