Arousing

Famous quotes containing the word arousing:

    There is nothing like arousing appetite and affection; otherwise all you make out of them is asses loaded with books.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
    —J.B.S. (John Burdon Sanderson)