Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on…

Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably…

— George Will

There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we direct that…

— Desmond Tutu

He loved telling stories. He had been everywhere in the world. The northwest frontier, the landscape of the Hindu Kush, was one of the…

— Sebastian Barry

It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it…

— Viola Spolin

Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of Merry Gold…

— Lydia Millet

The acute experience of great beauty readily evokes a nameless yearning for something more than earth can offer. Elegant splendor reawakens our spirit's aching…

— Thomas Dubay

When the writing is really working, I think there is something like dreaming going on. I don't know how to draw the line between…

— John Hersey

Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes…

— Richard Pascale

We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion…

— John F. Carlson

Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from…

— Ralph Gibson

The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of…

— Paulo Freire

All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel…

— Chris Jordan

Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

— Fernando Pessoa

The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written…

— Paulo Coelho

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,…

— Leo Tolstoy