Evoke Quotes

192 quotes by 175 authors

The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that… — John F. Carlson
We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose.… — Robert Genn
If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of… — Lawren Harris
I like that you have four minutes to zero in on something and evoke a specific feeling and take people on some sort of journey. — Madonna Ciccone
Here's a funny question:What is your favorite word?Think about itâ€”maybe it's a word that makes you absolutely happy, or a word that sounds gloriously beautiful,… — Vera Nazarian
You will stay up all night reading this brilliant and devastating novel the way you might have with a new best friend in junior high-one… — Julie Orringer
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and… — James Connolly
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. — E L Doctorow
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we… — Marian Wright Edelman
It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting… — Conrad Hall
Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations. — Daniel Kahneman
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. — Jerzy Kosinski
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. — Rene Magritte
I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so… — Apolo Ohno
Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition… — Paul Rand
When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke… — Donald Rumsfeld
I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters. — William Shatner
I'm such a huge fan, and I've done classes of all Lady Gaga music. And she's just someone who evokes freedom and love for her… — Richard Simmons
On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton,… — A. N. Wilson

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