Quotes About Context

Everything's funny - in the right context and done by the right person.

I'm usually not the straight guy. I'm sometimes more the funny guy, depending on the situation.

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

A funny line can never exist on its own. It needs to be surrounded by mood and circumstances.

When the situation is serious, don't be funny; and when the situation is funny, don't be serious!

Not every single way of saying the right thing is right.

My goals in Holland were known as 'stiffies', which means something quite different in England of course.

Nonviolent communication does not mandate that we remain completely objective nd refrain from evaluating. It only requires that we maintain a separation between our observations and our evaluations. Nonviolent communication is a process language that discourages static generalizations, instead, evaluations are to be based in observations specific to time and context.

a simple question can trigger a simple response that's appropriate in one environment and completely wrong in another.

To avoid undesirable behavior, avoid the environments where it is most likely to occur.

The medium is the message.

Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.

We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.

It hit me then that my family is gone, really gone, and even though I have ll these kids, they'll never know my family, so in a way they'll never know me, because they don't know me with my family. I don't have a context for my children.

Impersonated is a weird word, especially in this context. (I just noticed that. Im-person-ated. Weird.)

Grannie Jane raised an eyebrow. "A word of advice, Agatha dear, as you go forward into the world. Remember at all times with whom you are speaking and how your words may be interpreted by those hearing them.

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

the Prophet spoke of the pleasures of the senses and of prayer in the same context: "It hath been given me to love perfume and women, and coolness hath been brought to mine eyes in the prayer." 2

Above all, a game is an opportunity, an easy- to-understand instrument by which context is defamiliarized just enough to allow what Huizinga famously refers to as his "a magic circle" of play to occur.

Niggas are in paris

Principles are underlying truths that don't change over time or space, while practices are the application of principles to a particular situation.

My for example is woofs.

Following the Post Modernist route, we may indeed never arrive at meaning, but not because meaning is not there... only because we are lost in endless linguistic games that are entirely beside the point.

Your big word isn't the content of your life, it is the context of your life.