Evocations Quotes

#1. One of finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory ... Powerful and profoundly moving.

William Kittredge

#2. Funest philosophers and ponderers,
Their evocations are the speech of clouds.

Wallace Stevens

#3. Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest stories nightmarish rather than surreal.

David Foster Wallace

#4. Let's honor a man or woman who was there, but never a war itself and those who start it.

Steve Anderson

#5. I'd rather just think of everything positively.

Minzy

#6. I'm just like you, only I'm different because I'm me.

Jim Coleman

#7. Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.

Ram Dass

#8. People walk around pushing back their debts
Wearing pay checks like necklaces and bracelets

Brett Dennen

#9. He had passed beyond the afflictions of this world. Walt Disney had at last attained perfection.

Neal Gabler

#10. Freedom has never been free.

Medgar Evers

#11. To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Democritus

#12. We are doorways, openings into something greater than ourselves, something that we don't understand and will never understand. We have nothing precious in and of ourselves. We are only precious in that we are part of something that is too big to know.

Eleanor Morse

#13. far too many people die with a heart thats gone flat with indiferance, and it surely must be a terrible way to go. Life will offer amazing oppurtunities, but we've got to be wide-awake to recognize them.

Beth Hoffman

#14. You know how we tell the good guys from the bad guys? The bad guys shoot at us.
Best lesson my father ever taught me.

Rick Yancey

#15. Metaphors for God drawn from human experience can easily be literalized. While we are immediately aware that the personal God is not really a rock or a mother eagle, it is easy enough to imagine that God is really a king or a father.

Sandra Marie Schneiders

#16. My childhood was quite extreme. Sometimes I was so weak I could not stand up. But now I am so strong. Life is unpredictable

Ai Weiwei

#17. My word, we live and learn, don't we.' And you certainly learn, he added in the privacy of his head.

Terry Pratchett