Quotes About Evokes

#1. It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.

Javier Perez De Cuellar

#3. A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does.

Mason Cooley

#4. 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. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting
but waiting for what?

Edward Abbey

#5. It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude.

Jim Rohn

#6. The great writer evokes the words
that buried within hearts of readers.

Toba Beta

#7. The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.

Paul Hindemith

#8. There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn.

Eric Hoffer

#9. Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.

Paul Rand

#10. There's something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They're inherently cinematic; the very shape of a coaster, all hills and valleys and sickening helices, evokes a human emotional response.

Diablo Cody

#11. Narcissists are neither carefree nor innocent. They have learned to play the power game, to seduce and to manipulate. They are always thinking about how people see and respond to them. And they must stay in control because loss of control evokes their fear of insanity.

Alexander Lowen

#12. Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense.

William Bernhardt

#13. 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 a bebopper of the finest order.

Chris Cortez

#14. 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 edifice might collapse.

Arthur Koestler

#15. Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

Christopher Moore

#16. Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
Love of feeling evokes the opposite
Love of body depends only on type and polarity.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#17. 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 the host until something evokes it.

Darrel Ray

#18. I've always felt that color is intrinsically personal. It evokes a tremendous amount of emotion. If there's a color you respond to, that's something you can incorporate into your home. No one can tell you it's wrong.

Nate Berkus

#19. Stocking up" is what our robust Americans called it, laughing nervously, because profligate abundance automatically evokes its opposite, the unspoken specter of dearth.

Ruth Ozeki

#20. 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 such strong passions and emotions.

James D'arcy

#21. 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 is an exceptional, lovely book, beautifully enigmatic, speaking a language that mysteriously evokes the unspoken.

Lydia Millet

#22. Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy.

Virginia Postrel

#23. You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine.

Rick Bragg

#24. The Bible provocatively evokes desire.

Jen Pollock Michel

#25. Your mind has enormous hidden dimensions. Open yourselves completely to whatever reactions and emotions the world evokes from time to time. Accept them all without any reservation or resentment. By assimilating everything and all, your mind grows deeper, stabler and more enriched.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

#26. World music evokes a feeling. You don't have to think about the scene that it comes from.

St. Lucia

#27. Catharsis. Revenge cleanses. Aristotle wrote that the human soul is purged by the fear and compassion that tragedy evokes. It's a frightening thought that we fulfil the soul's innermost desire through the tragedy of revenge, isn't it.

Jo Nesbo

#28. Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.

Joseph Campbell

#29. What is sacred is what is worthy of our reverence, what evokes awe and wonder in the human heart, and what, when contemplated, transforms us utterly.

Phil Cousineau

#30. We Chinese are instinctively democratic, and Dr. Sun's objective of universal suffrage evokes from all Chinese a ready and unhesitating response.

Chiang Kai-shek

#31. Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.

Oliver Sacks

#32. Vision evokes emotion. There is no such thing as an emotionless vision.

Andy Stanley

#33. Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

Eli Broad

#34. Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

Olga Kurylenko

#35. Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by poverty fails to find release.

Horace

#36. My pen is the key to a fantastic bordello, and once the gate is opened, it ejaculates a bloody ink. The virgin paper set to shriek evokes worlds heretofore unknown: eruptive, incorruptible, suffocating.

Rikki Ducornet

#37. When that which I have chosen to focus upon in this moment evokes love or joy or appreciation, I am, in that moment, offering my greatest value to myself, to my current object of attention and to All-That-Is.

Esther Hicks

#38. I shake my head at his largesse, and I frown as a scene from Tess crosses my mind: the strawberry scene. It evokes my dream. To hell with Dr. Flynn - Freud would have a field day - and then he'd probably die trying to deal with Fifty Shades.

E.L. James

#39. A lot of time, with stories, I'll start out with a title and try to dream myself into the story that it evokes - a kind of subconscious exercise in which I'm trawling for some kind of entryway into fiction.

Dan Chaon

#40. Oh that short hair, a la garcon that evokes unfamiliar, boyish kinds of sex.

Alaa Al Aswany

#41. Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story

Saul Bass

#42. The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.

P. J. O'Rourke

#43. Let's be honest, for a lot of well meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.

Hillary Clinton

#44. You can't hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the brain.

Steven Pinker

#45. Calling a piece of short fiction a "tale" removes it at least slightly from the realm of mundane works and days, as it evokes the world of the folk tale, the wonder tale, and the long-ago teller of tales.

Margaret Atwood

#46. 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

#47. Surely the gospel evokes unconditional surrender of all that we are and all that we have to all that He is.

David Platt

#48. If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest ... she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.

Ned Rorem

#49. Of course, in the U.S. the government and politics are gaining more and more ground lately at the cost of the law. The government is very smart; it evokes terror in the hearts of people to convince them to give up their freedom and privacy.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

#50. It's never enough to just tell people about some new insight. Rather, you have to get them to experience it a way that evokes its power and possibility. Instead of pouring knowledge into people's heads, you need to help them grind anew set of eyeglasses so they can see the world in a new way.

John Seely Brown

#51. And that obsession was only a shadow of the first one. Lately I wonder if it all goes back to the way you begin, and after that you love in that way, or go sleepwalking after something that evokes the luxury, fatality, sorrow, whatever the strong taste was, of that first one.

Valerie Trueblood

#52. Aristotle wrote that the human soul is purged by the fear and compassion that tragedy evokes.

Jo Nesbo

#53. Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures.

Henri Poincare

#54. There is something about guitars - maybe something magical - when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal.

John Fahey

#55. The truth is that grammar is always interesting, always useful. Mastering the logic of grammar contributes, in a mysterious way that again evokes some process of osmosis, to the logic of thought.

Francine Prose

#56. As we have seen, bread, and especially dry bread, evokes secretion of considerably larger quantities of saliva than meat.

Ivan Pavlov

#57. A 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower in Chicago [and] a 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower directly across the street.

Hugh Ferriss

#58. A brand is a person that has a voice, evokes emotion and spreads a message.

Richie Norton

#59. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world.

Paulo Coelho

#60. What is it about tea that attracts you?" she asked. "Its taste evokes memories," he said. "The feeling of something familiar that you've already experienced but not yet tasted." Even

Anat Talshir

#61. Words? I tell you not to write me letters; I command you. Is it not enough to want you so in vain, but you send me what evokes you here before me
this paper, all along whose lines your hand has lain?

Anne Reeve Aldrich

#62. We should let ourselves react emotionally and feel whatever anger or sadness being criticized evokes for us. And then we should quickly move on.

Sheryl Sandberg

#63. Good communication is not just data transfer. You need to show people something that addresses their anxieties, that accepts their anger, that is credible in a very gut-level sense, and that evokes faith in the vision.

John P. Kotter

#64. Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.

Samuel Smiles

#65. It is difficult to enjoy people for whom we have waited too long. And in this familiar situation, which evokes such intensities of feeling, we wait and we try to do something other than waiting, and we often get bored - the boredom of protest that is always a screen for rage.

Adam Phillips

#66. Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is otherwise deeply anatagonistic.

Theodor Adorno

#67. It is not uncommon in the modern world for people to retreat into the world of books to escape from the realities of the outside world. The printed word evokes the modern notion of security, with the emphasis on detachment, privacy, autonomy, predictability, and enclosed artificiality.

Jeremy Rifkin

#68. We were such fans of Sleepy Hollow, in all of its iterations - growing up with the Disney show, and then Tim Burton's and, obviously, the most important being Washington Irving's short story. It evokes and invokes a very specific feeling and tone.

Alex Kurtzman

#69. I am seeing a resurgence of entertainment that not only entertains, but inspires, evokes, and moves. I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.

Ian Somerhalder

#70. A clear look back on the Cold War's battlegrounds, along with a sense of relief that the world survived forty-five years of confrontation, evokes feelings of humility and regret.

John Lamberton Harper

#71. Emotions are at the nexus of thought and action, of self and other, of person and environment, of biology and culture. Emotion is a term that evokes many connotations, from the way we "feel" to the ways our lives are integrated across time.

Diana Fosha

#72. Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.

Kaskade

#73. Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

Erin Gruwell

#74. For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

Rachael Taylor

#75. Imagining a virtual mentor evokes a genuine feeling of being supported and loved.

Deborah Sandella

#76. We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him.

David Platt

#77. What he imagines evokes nothing imaginary, it evokes the reality of the world that experience and reason treat in a confused manner.

Rene Magritte

#78. I don't know what it is on an elemental level, but a beard in general evokes hedonism. It's a more lush personal grooming style. It's more comfortable and cozy; it's less sharp and angular and businesslike. I feel like a beard is more Hobbit-like, even though Hobbits themselves are clean-shaven.

Nick Offerman

#79. The raw beauty of Natalia Ginzburg's prose compels our gaze. First we look inward, with the shock of recognition inspired by all great writing, and then, inevitably, out at the shared world she evokes with such uncompromising clarity.

Hilma Wolitzer

#80. I think that whenever soul is present, it's because what you're doing, whom you're with, where you are, evokes love without your thinking about it. You are totally absorbed in the place of person or event, without ego and without judgment.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

#81. War reporter Lawrence Sheets's edgy memoir evokes exactly the fatalism, confusion, and centrifugal forces that suddenly broke up the Soviet Union two decades ago. Refreshingly free of faraway theorizing, this book focuses on what people actually saw and experienced in those years.

Hugh Pope

#82. The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr.

Thomas Szasz

#83. So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.

David Gower

#84. 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

#85. Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and ingenuity, are routinely entwined; the sport that evokes the most extreme reactions - loathing, revulsion, righteous indigation; a fierce and often inexplicable loyalty.

Joyce Carol Oates

#86. The food doesn't matter, really. What it evokes does.

Amanda Hesser

#87. As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.

Don Bluth

#88. 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 word of this wonderful book.

Jennifer Chiaverini

#89. If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.

Julian Casablancas

#90. If I'm doing something on stage, and it evokes an emotion, then I might show that emotion, but I also don't believe in being a preacher. If you have a point, that's a bonus. But the funny has to come first; otherwise, you shouldn't call yourself a comedian.

Trevor Noah

#91. No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.

Lucretius

#92. The beautiful thing about pain is that it evokes honesty.

Shawn Stockman

#93. America's leaders should be examples of integrity and high moral standards. When their behavior evokes shame rather than pride and becomes something that we don't want to discuss in front of the children at the kitchen table, we should consider impeachment.

Ben Carson

#94. How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that evokes an emotion in you? That became my motto throughout all my life. Simplicity.

Pierre Coffin

#95. Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

Karl Barth

#96. Poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the primordial world.

Gerhart Hauptmann

#97. His glorious Person evokes admiration for and honor of Him, as He imparts His nature into me.

J. B. Torrance

#98. Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist

Rene Magritte

#99. I'm such a huge fan, and I've done classes of all Lady Gaga music. And she's just someone who evokes freedom and love for her fans and passion in what she does. Lady Gaga, I'll take you out for a salad anytime.

Richard Simmons

#100. This sense that the world can be reinvented [evokes] the Sixties in this country, those years when no one at all seemed to have any memory or mooring ...

Joan Didion