Quotes.wiki
  • Home
  • Tags
  • Authors
  • Contact Us
">
Quotes.wiki
Quotes.wiki
  • Home
  • Tags
  • Authors
  • Contact Us
Context  Quotes
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the...

—Umberto Eco

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ContextEscapeEscapism
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

—David Brinkley

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ContextMediaPopular-Culture
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, raised in certain social and historical contexts and belonging to particular communities that shape their desires and understandings of the...

—Lila Abu-Lughod

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BeingsCommunityConstructs
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Having contact sheets for all sorts of episodes in your life seemed to me intriguing and desirable. So much of my own history is beclouded by time, but a few sharp rays, in the form...

—Thomas Beller

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ContextLifeMemories
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don’t care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in the room. If you want to totally misunderstand why something...

—Chuck Klosterman

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ContextIdeasUnbiased-Apathy
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Of course, in television’s presentation of the “news of the day,” we may see the Now…this” mode of discourse in it’s boldest and most embarrassing form. For there, we are presented not only with fragmented...

—Neil Postman

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ContextDiscourseEmbarrassing
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Man is a coward in space, for he is by himself.

—Richard Llewellyn

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ContextCrisisLoneliness
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.

—Elliott Abrams

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ContextTerrorism
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.

—Neil Postman

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ContextMediaTelevision
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Agriculture must mediate between nature and the human community, with ties and obligations in both directions. To farm well requires an elaborate courtesy toward all creatures, animate and inanimate. It is sympathy that most appropriately...

—Wendell Berry

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AgricultureCommunityContext
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what’s fascinating to me.

—Chris Van

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ContextHappeningOrdinary
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
…you do violence with your words if you force them – art is given – the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands – call it a Muse …

—John Geddes

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ContextForcing-WordsLanguage
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
You know, Junie, you’re fourteen now. I think you can certainly manage to put together a sandwich. …The thing is, if my mother had any idea what I had in my backpack, she would have...

—Carol Rifka

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ChildrenContextParents
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Writers use narratives to select from everything there is, and make contexts by putting the pieces into relation; that’s what writers do, they make contexts.

—Paul Shepheard

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ContextNarrativeWriters
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
When students learn to wrestle with questions about purpose, audience, and genre, they develop a conceptual view of writing that has lifelong usefulness in any communicative context.

—John C. Bean

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AudienceCommunicationContext
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which seems to be seen...

—Roland Barthes

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AffirmationAmorousChance
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I need to be able to explain myself in context.

—Adam Lambert

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ContextExplain
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?” asked Milo.”Much worse,” he said longingly. “But I don’t live here. I’m from a place very far away called Context.

—Norton Juster

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ContextIgnorance
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

—Robert Penn

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ContextMemory
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
One who has lived through the days of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and the Japanese war lords feels something that a younger generation does not concerning the aberrations that are possible in this world.

—Bernard Brodie

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ContextHistoryPerception
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Art is the conscious making of numinous phenomena. Many objects are just objects – inert, merely utilitarian. Many events are inconsequential, too banal to add anything to our experience of life. This is unfortunate, as...

—K.J. Bishop

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AppearanceArtArtists
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Corporate & personal branding both require storytelling to be captivating. Stories provide context, meaning & the opportunity for relationship.

—Ryan Lilly

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BrandingCaptivatingContext
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew

—Bart D. Ehrman

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ChristianityContextHistory
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The will to truth is enshrined in the mind. It is undeniable, inescapable, mutable only if one’s humanity itself is rejected, itself muted. Yet the form of this truth, whether it be elaborate, simple, exclusive...

—Jeffrey Panzer

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ContextStoriesWill-To-Truth
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Do you follow the wrestling? Most people think it’s illegal, but you can watch it there. Ruby and Python are on display this evening.

—Samuel R.

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ContextHumorousProphecies
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say ‘God is love,’ they will claim that...

—Dan Barker

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AtheismBloodthirstyContext
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.”[MovieMaker Magazine #53 – Winter, January 22, 2004 ]

—Jim Jarmusch

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AuthenticityContextCreative-Process
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
But however minimal, however threadbare, it (collective memory) is ballast of a kind. We all need that seven-eighths of the iceberg, the ballast of the past, a general past, the place from which we came.That...

—Penelope Lively

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ContextHistorical-NarrativeHistory
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Conformity is a problem for many small groups. Members put a higher priority on cohesion than on coming up with a well-reasoned choice. They pressure dissenters, shield themselves from negative feedback, keep silent when they...

—Craig E. Johnson

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ConformityContextCulture
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Until you’ve been washed ashore you can’t know how all encompassing the sea has become.

—John Maerz

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ContextPerspective
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Great experiences are built on a foundation of bad experiences.

—Tim Fargo

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ContextEducationExperience
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I’ve always been spiritual but I’ve never had a proper context, and it took me a while to find the proper context. It’s hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God...

—Billy Corgan

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ContextGodHard
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
It follows that the one thing we should not do to the men and women of past time, and particularly if they ghost through to us as larger than life, is to take them out...

—Lauro Martines

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
CensureContextHistorians
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy
  • About us

Copyright © 2017 - 2020 TR Marketing Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

Do Not Sell My Personal Information

Exercise your consumer rights by contacting us below Privacy Policy

[email protected]

Personalized advertisements

Turning this off will opt you out of personalized advertisements delivered from Google on this website.

CookiePro
Confirm
Popup Button popup close button