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Quotes About Evocative

Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.
~ David Whyte
How do we describe the fact of human existence? At a certain point, perhaps, style fails us. Language, even and in particular at its most evocative, becomes less of an aid and more of a difficulty.
~ Katie Kitamura
People assumed we called the record 'Murray Street' because of its proximity to the World Trade Centre, but that wasn't it at all. Before the attacks, I had simply been walking around taking pictures of things, and I had this photograph of the street sign. We felt it was somewhat evocative and decided to use it on the back cover of the album.
~ Lee Ranaldo
I'm as embarrassed as hell about it. I purged myself of my shame by buying the Beatles 'all you need is love', one of the most evocative singles of all time.
~ Jon Snow
It is stronge how smells can bring back vivid memories.
~ Mary Balogh
Story, as I understood it by reading Faulkner, Hardy, Cather, and Hemingway, was a powerful and clarifying human invention. The language alone, as I discovered it in Gerard Manley Hopkins and Faulkner, was exquisitely beautiful, also weirdly and mysteriously evocative.
~ Barry Lopez
I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.
~ Iggy Azalea
Smells are odd things. They follow you about when you're not thinking about them, but when you put your nose to where they ought to be, they aren't there. The
~ Eva Ibbotson
When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.
~ Ashwin Sanghi
A light wind blew through here that carried with it scents of sadness and loss, not recognizable odors but smells that corresponded to nothing, chimerical fragrances able to evoke melancholic memories.
~ Bentley Little
And that aroma of sex … soft baby asparagus cut with a weak solution of Clorox.
~ Gregory Maguire
Your lips are like fingers?
~ Shelly Laurenston
You smell of cinnamon in spite of the mombins.' 'You smell of cinnamon too,' I'd murmur.
~ Simone Schwarz-Bart
I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.
~ Andre Dubus
Flawed characters... a ticking clock... morally questionable acts on all sides... moody, evocative art... oh yeah, this the stuff crime noir fans love!
~ Christos Gage
When poetry stirs in my imagination it is almost always from an indirect place, where language is abstract, where the mood and energy is evocative of submerged emotional intelligence and experience.
~ bell hooks
UNA IMAGEN MENTAL SUGERENTE
~ Blake Snyder
Vzduch venku byl kapalného skupenství. ÄŒerná, antracitová voda, vybízející k tomu, aby jí ?lovÄ›k položil ruku na hÃ…â"¢bet a pohladil ji.
~ Bolaño, Roberto
The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.
~ Saoirse Ronan
Yeah, in my scripts, I don't tend to describe landscape too clearly because I like to keep it really basic and sort of let people paint their own picture. I don't find it helpful to spend a page describing a setting, except for maybe a few key things.
~ Sean Durkin
I've had a very, very interesting view of the planet over the last 30 years, touring as excessively as I have. And music is the most evocative, transformative, connective force in humanity, man.
~ Richie Sambora
Concrete, sensory details such as these allow readers to form vivid pictures in their minds of what is being described. That is how writers bring a scene to life.
~ Steve Kowit
I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.
~ Kate Bush
The rolling sound of a good hymn badly sung is particularly evocative.
~ Iain Pears