Evoke Quotes

192 quotes by 175 authors

There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up… — Margaret Atwood
Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty. — Eli Broad
If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you… — Julian Casablancas
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible,… — Arthur C. Clarke
There's something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They're inherently cinematic; the very shape… — Diablo Cody
It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you… — Jim Rohn
Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand… — Virgil
We energetically attract what we haven't worked out in ourselves. When vampires evoke intensely judgmental reactions from us, it could be they are mirroring aspects… — Judith Orloff
What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion. — Pablo Picasso
There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness… — Eric Hoffer
I think that whenever soul is present, it's because what you're doing, whom you're with, where you are, evokes love without your thinking about it.… — Jean Shinoda Bolen
We cannot focus upon the weaknesses of one another and evoke strengths. You cannot focus upon the things that you think they are doing wrong,… — Esther Hicks
Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C.… — Carl Sagan
Gently eliminating all obstacles to his own understanding, he constantly maintains his unconditional sincerity. His humility, perseverance, and adaptability evoke the response of the universe… — Laozi
The honey in the flower or lotus does not crave for bees; they do not plead with the bees to come. Since they have tasted… — Sathya Sai Baba
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us… — Morris Graves
The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible… — Albert Hofmann
Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning. — Karl Barth
In Mendrisio I felt it - the exhilaration of what the bike has to offer. It's a simple machine that conjures a vast mix of… — Cadel Evans
I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. — Amy Tan

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