Evocation Quotes

#1. Hexapodia as the key insight ... I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?

Vernor Vinge

#2. In every evocation of a childhood scene, my stepfather's face is the least detailed, the most out of focus; when I think of him my memory's eyes have cataracts. (p. 12)

Rabih Alameddine

#3. I can't remember coming across a more precise evocation of innocence lost since Golding's The Lord of the Flies. With The Death of Sweet Mister, Daniel Woodrell has written his masterpiece-spare, dark, and incandescently beautiful. It broke my heart.

Dennis Lehane

#4. I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.

Claude Lanzmann

#5. She had found peace in that house where memories materialized through the strength of implacable evocation and walked like human beings through the cloistered rooms

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#6. For [W. B.] Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry as poetry a kind of magic, and the object of both alike was evocation of energies and knowledge from beyond normal consciousness.

Kathleen Raine

#7. There is nothing like wine for conjuring up feelings of contentment and goodwill. It is less of a drink than an experience, an evocation, a spirit. It produces sensations that defy description.

Thomas Conklin

#8. The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has.

David Denby

#9. Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

Alan Moore

#10. Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Elizabeth Bowen

#11. The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.

Isobelle Carmody

#12. Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.

Andrea Barrett

#13. The United States is such a potent political, cultural, and economic model in the evocation of the contemporary world, that to come here, select some elements from the prototype and rearrange them, that's really interesting artistically.

Bruno Dumont

#14. In a large sense, Main Street is the American origin story. It's an evocation of the American creation tale, and the kick is that the American origin story is a never-ending one, a perpetual tale of creation and re-creation, an eternal now.

Leslie Le Mon

#15. Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.

Martin Amis

#16. THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY is ostensibly an autobiography but in truth it is much more than that. In this remarkably fine new translation, Anthea Bell perfectly captures Stefan Zweig's glorious evocation of a lost world, Vienna's golden age, in which he grew up and flourished.

Ronald Harwood

#17. The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused emotion, the evocation be far more bitter than reality, or far more lovely.

Louise Bogan

#18. All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind , pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of reality .

Joseph Conrad

#19. Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it's more of an evocation of what you do. It's more an evocation of seduction.

Karl Lagerfeld

#20. A lavish colored evocation of Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the 1920's film star.

Kenneth Anger

#21. Dreadful is a poignant biography of a forgotten man who drank himself to death. It's a brilliant evocation of a self-hating gay novelist in the 1940s whom Gore Vidal once considered a rival.

Edmund White

#22. In A Life In Books, author and graphic design visionary Warren Lehrer crafts a vivid kaleidoscopic odyssey that frames one man's life through not one, but one hundred different books - and book jackets ... An unmistakably modern evocation of the illuminated manuscript.

Jessica Helfand

#23. Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.

Thomas Otway

#24. What are you still doing up?"
I twisted around, spotting Hayden in the doorway. "Watching the ... uh," I turned back, frowning at the screen, "the ... way tigers mate." I sighed. Damn you, Discovery Channel.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#25. Ask yourself if I'm capable of contradictions, Draupadi.
Some missions succeed only by their spectacular failure. - Krishn

Sweety Shinde

#26. It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked.

Nora Ephron

#27. The award for the craziest story I ever heard goes to an old woman in Chicago who told me that her cat was planning to assassinate the president.

Adam J. Wright

#28. For my part, as a filmmaker, I've never been a fly-on-the-wall documentarian. I have no commitment to that method. I believe it's a lie.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#29. Love you more than life itself, more than the sun and the air.
You own my soul, Ella May.
Micha

Jessica Sorensen

#30. It ain't no use to try to learn you nothing, Huck.

Mark Twain

#31. The characters and plot in this book are pure fiction. Any similarity to real persons living or dead, elected, convicted, or merely toppled from power, is entirely coincidental.

Thomas Gately Briody

#32. For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

George Bernard Shaw

#33. If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along ... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.

Garth Nix

#34. I knew what we had was not over, we were not done and we did not know how to make our love end.

Robert Drake