Quotes About Context

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we've ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or filmmakers, is a projection of where we were born, what's been withheld or lavished upon us, our color, our sex, our class. And everything we do in life to some degree is a reflection of that context.

The first time I saw Douglas Sirk was in college. I didn't encounter him on the late, late, late show like a lot of people; people a little older than me, maybe. But I saw him already as someone to take special note of in an academic context in college. I was immediately in a state of visual splendor.

The function of journalism is, primarily, to uncover vital new information in the public interest and to put that information in a context so that we can use it to improve the human condition.

I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes forget that even though the words I'm using are fairly ordinary words, the concepts around which they cluster, which are the long concepts of literary tradition, may not be familiar to an audience.

Music is very similar to comedy: It's all about texture, timing, context, vocabulary, performance. When someone's onstage doing a solo, essentially it's the same thing as what a comedian does. They're in the moment. They're listening.

How you use your voice is really important, and it's really driven by context more than anything else, and your tone of voice will immediately begin to impact somebody's mood and immediately how their brain functions.

A lot of games and voiceover projects, they're not giving the actor a lot of context. The actor, no matter how good they are, might not be able to deliver a performance that fits the action.

TheIinternet is a timeless void - you put something in there, and it's there forever and loses a lot of context.

You have to be aware of who you're talking to in an audience.

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

We have to base architecture on the environment.

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Except science now tells us that luck is there whether you acknowledge it or not. And I'm afraid in your case I see the signs of a history of bad luck. Not even a latency so much as a full-blown case going completely ignored for lack of context.

We admit the presence of no author, no oeuvre, and no genre. The text stands bare. . . . We admit nothing outside of the text.

Words never mean what we want them to mean.

Without context, we'd all be monsters.

Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. 

Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. It

Indudablemente los filósofos están en lo cierto cuando nos dicen que nada es grande ni pequeño sino por comparación.

A word's fate depends on the variety of its contexts, on the frequency of its usage.

Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.

He is an important person to this story, so that it is as well we should know something about him before letting him loose in it.

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.