Quotes About Context

Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

I'm a different person in French. I'm a different person in New York. I'm a different person in Canada.

Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.

Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.

With 'Downsizing,' a lot of the discussion hasn't been about the film itself, but about cultural and political conversations happening outside of it. It's being digested in the context of the time.

Much of India's Hindu-Muslim divisions can also be located in the context of history, fomented further by the politics of divide and rule.

Things explain each other, not themselves.

I need to be able to explain myself in context.

Fashion is an expression of a time, of a place, of history. It's putting things into context.

Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.

There are different facets to everyone. When you're at work, you're a different person. When you're with your friends, you're a different person.

I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

Dance music is about having a good time, and a lot of dance music is very serious now. When progressive house and progressive tech came along, it was kind of serious, but it's all context as well.

My technique has always been to include all the periphery around me.

Obviously, 'Lincoln' is not about the telegraph operator. There's a whole other movie before and after the two isolated scenes that I'm in.

As many an architect will tell you, human behavior changes according to the environment.

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place.

In archaeology, context is everything. Objects allow us to reconstruct the past. Taking artifacts from a temple or an ancient private house is like emptying out a time capsule.

Where you read a book and when and with whom can make a big difference.

Rubenfeld spoke no Hebrew. His mind was racing to come up with something—anything—that these wild-eyed dirt farmers would understand. He threw his arms in the air and yelled the only Yiddish words he could think of. "Gefilte fish! Gefilte fish! Shabbes! Shabbes!

Many of the haiku poets gave their poems brief superscriptions that function like Ginsberg's titles to create a context.

People often indiscriminately use absolutes in their utterances: every, everyone, everything, all, always, never, no one, nothing. Rarely are these absolute terms justified.

Works of architecture were, in that context, embodiments of the ideals on which the life of institutions depended.