Evoking Quotes
31 quotes by 31 authors
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A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right…
— Marshall McLuhan
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Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing…
— Bell Hooks
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September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.
— Alexander Theroux
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Reyes, what happened?†He‘d been busy nibbling his way to my collarbone, his hot mouth evoking seismic activity at each point of contact. I really…
— Darynda Jones
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There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.
— Thomas de Quincey
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I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.
— Ang Lee
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We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism: the urge in…
— Bart Starr
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To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves…
— Eric Hoffer
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By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry
— Max Beerbohm
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When a politician mentions God half a dozen times in a speech, it's to appropriate for his campaign the name God. He's suggesting that God…
— Andy Rooney
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