Quotes About Context

Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.

I think the context of an hour-long drama gives breathing space that you don't get in a film.

For my career, I want to be able to do projects that have serious context to them or that make me grow as a person and an artist after the experience.

You have to laugh at things in order to let them be what they truly are. Because nothing is only sad. Nothing is only funny. There's context to all of those things.

I think effeminacy is something that's really important to talk about in the context of gay media representations and in terms of the gay experience at large.

When scoops are just tweeted out, I think a lot of the context can be lost.

My theory about L.A. is that it's almost like you have an allergy that's dormant and just need to be put in the right context for that allergy to come out. And L.A.'s like that in my mind. People who have any of that dormant blind ambition, it can easily come out in that context.

If you're a competitor, this is what you want. You want all of the games to have meaning, context and to be the best competition.

I think the context of the era was still really important for Daphne's character arc, so I wanted to get all of that right.

If actors are trying to convey, in a smart way, the context of the scene, that becomes too self-conscious.

Man is the creature of circumstances.

I really believe that every game of international cricket should have some sort of meaning and some sort of context to it - so the World Test Championship, the World One-Day League are all really, really important opportunities to the game.

Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important.

The battle between Google and Apple has shifted from devices, operating systems, and apps to a new, amorphous idea called 'contextual computing.' We have become data-spewing factories, and the only way to make sense of it all is through context.

At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.

We have all said things that are offensive when taken out of context. You don't need to tell the public to be repelled. They will tell you they are repelled.

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

People in real life don't get ballplayers' humor, the way we talk in the clubhouse.

When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

Being a medium, a lot of religious people are like, 'ok. that's talking to the dead.' The bible talks about it in a very different context so I think there's more stigma to being a medium.

People who are very Tuned In to context tend to have strong connections from the hippocampus to areas in the prefrontal cortex that control executive functions and that hold long-term memories in the neocortex.

The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..

We would do well to come to the Bible with these words ringing in our ears: 'You have heard it said . . . but I say to you . . .

The past is relevant only as data.