Evoke Quote by George William Russell Download Open image “You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.” — George William Russell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Evoke Time
What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. If you're interested in the cake, you get rather… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. — Francis Marion Copy Share Image
“TO A POOR OLD WOMAN" munching a plum on the street a paper bag of them in her hand They taste good to her They taste good to her. They taste good to her You can see it by the way she gives herself to the one half sucked out in her hand Comforted a solace of ripe plums seeming… — Stephen Burt Copy Share
It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Could a flavor be pleased with itself and its position in the world? That was plum. Not the sharp-flavored skin and the sweet flesh… — Judith Fertig Copy Share Image
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The world can only be free when men are content in themselves and each draws from his own fountain. — George William Russell Copy Share Image
The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered. — George William Russell Copy Share Image
We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn. — George William Russell Copy Share Image
Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity. — George William Russell Copy Share
Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side. — George William Russell Copy Share Image
We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes. — George William Russell Copy Share Image
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel… — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image
The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from the snapshot to the decisive moment to multi-media montage - the intent and purpose of photography is to render in visual terms feelings and experiences that often elude the ability of words to describe. In any… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share
We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Pascale Copy Share Image
When the writing is really working, I think there is something like dreaming going on. I don't know how to draw the line between the conscious management of what you're doing and this state. . . . I would say that it's related to daydreaming. When I feel really engaged with a passage, I become so lost in it that… — John Hersey Copy Share
The acute experience of great beauty readily evokes a nameless yearning for something more than earth can offer. Elegant splendor reawakens our spirit's aching… — Thomas Dubay Copy Share Image
Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of Merry Gold… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it… — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
