Quotes About Context

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

It's not stalking if you don't follow them home, right?

I hoped you would consider it seriously instead of laughing at it.' 'Mr. Chamkanni said much the same thing in bed the first night home from the hospital

Your environment (your home, your office, the magazines you read etc.) dramatically affects your levels of achievement

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.

A unique human trait is that we try to find meaning in the things that happen to us.

It is your human environment that makes climate

If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?

No means yes in grasshopper language.

When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

It's like geographical humor. You just don't get it unless you were there.

I've always been so intrigued by French language and how it completely changes you, because of cultural context, because of humor.

A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact".

It is better to make an irrational noise in a bush than in a desert.

There is never a bad joke, it's adressing to a wrong audience that makes it look bad!

Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet.

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.

Just because you see bad contents in few pages of the bookIt doesn't mean the whole contents in that book are bad too

That's the beauty and the curse of the 'engrafted word'... it all comes down to interpretation.

In other words, where we are is vital to who we are.

But what is the point of tiring oneself over words that are being used from two quite different points of view? One should instead rely on the meaning intended.

I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.