Quotes About Evocative

odor that reminded him of the smell of wet wood. "We

Forever encased in the amber of a writer's prose.

Congress was chased like a covey of partridges from Philadelphia to Trenton, from Trenton to Lancaster," Adams wrote with his usual gift for evocative language.

You remind me of a smoked cigarette.

For me, fragrances are very - one of these beautiful art forms that bring about a whole host of things. It's what you want to smell like, it's memories that make you smile or are resonant of times in your life, it can remind you of music. If you're a lover of scent, it's a very kind of particular and evocative thing.

There was something about her voice that made Bruno think of dolci , of meringues and sweet zabaglione, and peaches bubbling as they poached in wine.

If each word was a tapestry, it had been spun out of razor wire.

I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.

If you've ever been there, you've never forgotten. The feeling is as haunting and familiar as the smell of a junior high school locker room.

Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

The memory of odors is very rich. Now

People, countries, and objects all end up as smells.

Italo Calvino quote, 'A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.' For I have read The Great Gatsby numerous times, and always discover new things in each reading.

De toda la memoria, solo vale el don preclaro de evocar los sueños.

I guess one thing that makes my music stand out is that it is quite hard to determine what genre it is.

It's embarrassing when the Clash are slavishly acclaimed by critics as the rock 'n' roll band of the decade—and yet, what other band has so successfully absorbed the music of so many cultures, digested it, and emerged with a startling, evocative language of their own?

It ( In My Life ) was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously about my life.... up until then, it had been all glib and throwaway.

This red-fading-into-brown defines Queens for me; it is quiet and melancholy and postsuccessful, vaguely British in its disposition.

we can only hope that the evocative Welsh word hiraeth will be preserved. It means 'distant pain', and I know all about it…But, and this is important, it always refers to a near-umbilical attachment to a place, not just free-floating nostalgia or a droopy houndlike wistfulness of the longing we associate with human love. No, this is a word about the pain of loving a place.

Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell. I wonder what will someday bring back Dex and our few months together. Maybe the sound of Dido's voice. Maybe the scent of the Aveda shampoo I've been using all summer.

takes us directly to visceral memories, transporting us to a time and place instantly.

In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history.

In their wake the bite of incense lingered in the sultry air.

Una novela fabulosa, emotiva y evocadora, y perfecta para amantes de Mad Men.»