Top 245 Evoke Quotes & Sayings

When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.

My lyrics are quite train of thought, and they are all over the place, but they evoke something.

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

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

Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.

White-on-black shootings evoke America's history of racism and so carry an iconic payload of menace. Black-on-black shootings carry no such payload, although they are truly menacing to the black community. They evoke only despair.

Certain scents can evoke so much feeling, nostalgia, and trigger beautiful memories.

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

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

Our name is not great. It doesn't evoke anything about school or teachers. It doesn't roll off the tongue or stick in your head.

Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

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 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.

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

I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

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.

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.

You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

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

If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is simply there in all his naked humanity.

What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.

Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.

The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves.

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.

I believe in the power of great clothing. It can evoke confidence, beauty, and a sense of glamour.

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

One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us

Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you. The question is, how do you evoke it?

As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.

I can't allow someone to evoke negative emotions when they are no longer a part of my life.

The intention behind the high difficulty of the games I direct is to evoke a feeling of joy and accomplishment in the player when they overcome these challenges.

When we're the victims of insulting language and attacks, it's obviously going to evoke a response.

You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

We're here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love.

When a guitarist can evoke a certain mood through his playing, that's what's most important to me.

Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally.

music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.

Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that.

We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.

It's the challenge of trying to evoke any kind of sympathy for a role that ordinarily we would say, "Oh, this is a bad guy" and dismiss him.

We cannot focus upon the weaknesses of one another and evoke strengths. You cannot focus upon the things that you think they are doing wrong, and evoke things that will make you feel better. You've got to beat the drum that makes you feel good when you beat it. And when you do, you'll be a strong signal of influence that will help them to reconnect with who they are.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

One should not evoke violence by acting fearful.

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

Even in Hollywood, there are personal descents that evoke only sad shakes of the head, especially where there's sheer, unassailable talent in the mix.

If you've worked in a company for a long time, there's a mythology that you know by heart, you don't need to look it up to evoke. It's there in your blood, as it were.

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

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts.

There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.

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.

Certain movies that are trying to evoke history are just like being in an antique store, and all you notice is that all the stuff has been gathered together, and it feels like a pile of antiques. How can you think that that will evoke the past? It doesn't even have to evoke anything, but anyway, it's how we're living. It's this moment where nobody has to immediately think too much about how things are being documented. It's a great time.

Evoke one good memory for each bad one from now on.

I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.

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

I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.