Evokes Quotes

81 Evokes quotes by 73 unique authors

Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual… — Arthur Koestler
Marvelously entertaining, Gabrielle Donnellys The Little Women Letters evokes the spirit of Louisa May Alcotts Little Women with warmth and affection. I thoroughly enjoyed every… — Jennifer Chiaverini
Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense. — William Bernhardt
Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future. — Ned Rorem
Photographs are diary entries That's all they can be. Photographs are just documentations of a day's event. At the same time, they drag the past… — Nobuyoshi Araki
While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring,… — Daisaku Ikeda
Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when… — Joseph Campbell
Every cuisine tells a story. Jewish food tells the story of an uprooted, migrating people and their vanished worlds. It lives in people's minds and… — Claudia Roden
Dave's playing and repertoire evokes memories of the golden era of Modern Jazz, and in addition to being a nice guy he happens to be… — Unknown Author
Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that… — Joseph Campbell
I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs… — Coco Chanel
The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history. — Debi Mazar
Just as the chicken pox virus continues to live quietly in the body after the disease is gone, the god virus may live quietly in… — Darrel Ray
An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense. — Susan Wiggs
I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes… — James D'arcy
For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory. — Rachael Taylor
I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build. — Jeff VanderMeer
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 the… — Richard Pascale
Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity… — Gerhard Richter
Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past. — Olga Kurylenko
The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed.… — Edward Abbey
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. — Fernando Pessoa
Here's a funny question:What is your favorite word?Think about it—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
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. — Rene Magritte

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