Emma Walton Hamilton

Young children especially are receiving so much of the world through their ears and their eyes, particularly if they're pre-literate. So engaging them with sound, particularly sound that stirs them emotionally because of the sequence of notes, will make them pay attention.

British Author

Robert Greene

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

English Playwright

Richard Le Gallienne

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

English Poet

Russell Baker

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

American Journalist

Ruth Reichl

Ask people to pitch in - hand them a spoon and ask them to stir. Doing things together, having everyone help, makes for a nicer party.

American Chef

Shweta Basu Prasad

Music moves the deepest emotions, stirs buried memories, makes one forget yet creates new feelings and sometimes cures illness too.

Indian Actress

Rickey Henderson

To me the most important thing was stirring things up and scoring some runs so we could win a ballgame.

American Athlete

Soichiro Honda

The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.

Japanese Businessman

Kurt Busiek

I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.

American Writer

Robert Southey

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Often used in recipes and cooking to describe mixing ingredients smoothly.

Cooking Context

'Stir' can also mean to mix in any way, not only circular.

Beyond Circular

Can be used metaphorically to describe invoking feelings or thoughts.

Emotional Response

Although often associated with trouble, 'stir up' can relate to positive emotions too.

Not Always Negative

Used to describe a situation that captures public attention or causes a reaction.

Attention Grabbing

The noun form is casual, often used in everyday conversation.

Informal Usage

'Don't stir' implies staying still or making very little movement.

Minimal Movement

 in order to lower it as quickly as possible. After any athletic or protective gear has been removed from the victim, place them in an ice water tub while stirring the water and monitoring vitals continuously. If this is not possible, dousing in ice water and applying wet towels over the entire body can help.

What happens when you...

 It's frozen solid. But instead of throwing it out, Frank pulls the icy block of soda out of the glass by the embedded stir stick and, in a moment of vision, licks it. Delighted by his invention, Frank begins making the frozen treat for friends, and as he grows older,

How the popsicle was...

 can be cast a stirring narrative, and I hope that people with greater artistic flare and rhetorical power than I can tell it better and spread it further. It goes something like this. We are born into a pitiless universe, facing steep odds against life-enabling order

Is the world getting...

 old. But you can see how important it was to these people. People spend a lot of money on their wedding, But back then people spent a lot of money on their death. But even though the dead were lying quiet, other creatures were stirring.

Discovering Wildlife in...

 blended with rice and wheat without preservatives just like dehydrated vegetables our product also has a very long shelf life or more than three years in fact you can even have a hot soup also you can stir your sugar and have your tea

A Spoon You Can Eat Is a...

 And in a chemically more complex universe, it's possible to make more things. And what starts happening is that, around young suns, young stars, all these elements combine, they swirl around, the energy of the star stirs them around,

The history of our world...

 They stirred my imagination. They opened up new worlds for me. But the unintended consequence was that I did not know that people like me could exist in literature. So what the discovery of African writers did for me was

Chimamanda Ngozi...

 suddenly they begin to stir into action for the past two weeks this surrogate womb has protected them but now they no longer need it to complete the next

Body Invaders PIPE National...

 like sugar okay stir it up and we'll come back to this later the reason I'm talking to about hydrogels is because the world faces a food crisis look a

Hydrogels as an...

 but spy tortoise has stirred new emotions for our spy creatures being immersed in the world of animals is not without its hazards

Stir

To move something around, usually in a circular motion.

Often appears as...

To cause someone to have an emotional reaction.

Often appears as...

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A disturbance or excitement.

Often appears as...

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To wake or rise from a place.

Often appears as...

Cooking Context

Beyond Circular

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