Evoke Quotes

192 quotes by 170 authors

When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations. — Ashwin Sanghi
Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it… — Daisaku Ikeda
Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines. A lovely eloquence,… — Clive Barker
The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking.… — Ken Kesey
It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that… — Laura Esquivel
The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by… — Paulo Coelho
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody… — May Sarton
Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can… — Azar Nafisi
Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and… — E. M. Forster
You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like… — Rick Bragg
To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one… — Christopher Hitchens
I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary world… — Kate Forsyth
There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and… — Vladimir Nabokov
It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which… — Alexander Lowen
Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism. — Christopher Moore
Nowadays he doesn't think of his wife, though he knows he can turn around and evoke every move of her, describe any aspect of her,… — Michael Ondaatje
We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we try to save… — Parker J. Palmer
The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all… — Edward Abbey
If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is simply there in… — Deepak Chopra
One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices, the battering events… — Dean Koontz

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