Evoke Quotes

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a 'me too' attitude while impressing evokes a 'so what' attitude

The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.

I was genuinely happy when I wrote that song [Training Wheels] and very in love. That's a very rare emotion to evoke out of me.

I think as an artist you evoke feeling and change and through that you send a message.

We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.

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

Words cause pain, they evoke anger, they make us hate, they lead us to war. But they also make us laugh, bring us joy, and satisfying our emotional hungers.

We wanted the book [Paper Girls] to feel to evoke the '80s, but not necessarily feel that it was drawn then.

I believe locations should try to be and evoke the characters in a movie.

Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.

I have settled down in this border area; I am trying to find distinct standards of shape, and I long to experience, formulate, and evoke this dark, heavy, tranquillity.

Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.

The larvae! The scent of young blood entices and draws them closer. There's no need to venture into antiquity to evoke the shades of the dead.

I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.

What is the character trying to say? Why? Be as specific as you can, using sense images that evoke something about the character. Try using the character's senses, even if the character is you.

I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain words with melodies and it all becomes very moving.

My music should evoke a feeling; whether it's a feeling in your stomach, goosebumps, whatever. When you don't get a feeling then there's a problem.

Homes-the very idea of homeownership-evoke a strong emotional reaction in all of us.

I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.

People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.

The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.

I was brought up singing gospel, and I really enjoy getting the church up on their feet, their hips swaying, their hands clapping, it's a great feeling to evoke that energy for the Lord.

They [terrorists] are trying to evoke sympathy for themselves. They're not sympathetic people. They're violent, cold-blooded killers who are trying to stop the advance of freedom.

I definitely worked really hard to evoke Frankie Valli, but not do a strict imitation, because I feel that a strict imitation is not as compelling to watch.

Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo ! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us their children in the spirit.

A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.

I studied painting, sculpture and video in both undergrad and grad school, but I've always been more interested in music and I've always admired music that can evoke a cinematic experience.

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.

Leaders evoke emotional connections in followers only to the extent that the followers are emotionally needy.

I think it's important to find projects that evoke people into conversation. It's like reading a good book. You want to talk about it.

If liberalism has grown so weak and ineffective, why does it evoke such alarm on the part of conservatives? It turns out that while liberals are weak and spineless, they are also sneaky and clever.

There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we direct that energy we can use it positively or destructively.

How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape?

I like that you have four minutes to zero in on something and evoke a specific feeling and take people on some sort of journey.

It is interesting to see how far we've come as a society since then. But also how everybody keeps touching [Ronald] Reagan and trying to evoke him.

Limitlessness is the emotion that sunny mornings evoke in me now. A new appreciation for the present moment, untainted by the past or unknown future.

I’ve never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but the attempted embodiment of a vision

ASSERT -Always Stand Strong, Evoking Respect Tacitly

Curiosity is also my worst vice, and once stirred one not to be denied.

Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true

Explore your own innermost thoughts to create content that will evoke deeply relatable emotions and passion in others.

Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true name? to respond when called.Ever wonder why?.

The purpose of music as an art form, is to engage the audience.

Artists have a unique ability to paint the world, and to help people see injustice. They do it not with guns, but with pens and guitars and paintbrushes.