Quotes About Context

It's funny: sometimes with 'Spaced,' people would try and read too much into something I'd done, with the references meaning something more than they do.

By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.

Headlines are so great in a sense that they can take a little bit from an article completely out of context and blow it into something it's not. Some people really only read headlines.

I think, as long as you tell real stories, I think people will respond to it no matter whether or not it's in the context of super heroes.

Stats are something which can't define everything. It could be hiding more things than it shows.

for nothing is ever so mischievous in its own place as it is out of it;

what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time.

Mr. Upward italicises "at the present time" because he realises that you cannot, for instance, dismiss Hamlet on the ground that Shakespeare was not a Marxist.

if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning as before.

Tout concourt à I'histoire, tout est I'histoire, meme les romans qui semblent ne se rattacher en rien aux situations politiques qui les voient eclore.

What works in Washington, D.C. or New York City oftentimes doesn't work out in Billings, Montana, or elsewhere in the country.

The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture.

Our common membership of the E.U. provided an important external context to the Irish and U.K. governments working together for peace. It should not be discounted lightly.

What works at scale may be different from scaling what works. Pilots often succeed, while scale-up often fails when the context changes.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe.

You cannot compare warm-ups with World Cup games.

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through.

We knew in our gut that History needed to be more than a timeline.

I believe what has kept us relevant over the years is not just the fashion which has sometimes been more timely than other times but has also been our messages, which have consistently reflected the context of the world we're living in and what was happening and that which was affecting what we were thinking and what was inspiring us.

I think a lot of times, the historical piece is often a way to comment on the present.

To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.

When a person only knows abuse, they shift their whole emotional and spiritual life into the context of that abuse. If all you've ever known is to be hurt by the one that pretends to love you, then many times you go to the one who hurts you for love.