Quotes About Context

I've learned that even the word 'jubilee' used in connection with the Reformation can give rise to discussions.

With Shakespeare, the hard work is to find out why he said it and how it can relate to the audience.

Manaus has got nothing in relation to Brazilian football history.

I still have drive, but everything is relative.

I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.

My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.

As a historian, I always think you know what a moment was 20 years later.

There are very few critics who have historical context or authority.

I never wanted to be current in the sense that I follow the news, I follow the historical moment of the day. It was always, for me, to go back to the fundamentals.

I'm fascinated by delving into the historical context of what life was like in the past.

Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.

Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means.

My films have a lot of historical context; I'm a huge fan of ruins. You see a lot of ruin work in my movies, I like ruins.

I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me.

Data will always bear the marks of its history. That is human history held in those data sets.

So you can see why the whole hand-job thing felt like a natural career progression.

Evil is relative, Annalist. You can't hang a sign on it. You can't touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.

want to stress yet again that it has never not been the case that Buddhism is refracted through the ideological prisms of its time and place. My point is that, for us today, the refracting master prism is neoliberalism

Even though the Word was originally given in a concrete historical context, its uniqueness centers in the fact that, though historically given and conditioned, this Word is ever a living Word.

In this case, with mashed potatoes. "It's not about the potatoes!

Of course, everything depends on who is telling the story. It always does.

Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.

I started with the book 'Boardwalk Empire' and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement, Prohibition, pop culture. I even read the news and magazines of the period just to soak in it. That was before I even started thinking of the story.

People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.