#context

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#background #cannot #characters #context #empty

Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don't have two home supply centers touching each other. ↗

— Fred Davis

#any #anybody #centers #context #design

I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey. ↗

— John Eaton

#context #convey #departure #express #expressive

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#context #cultures #died #dying #extended

Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#context #create #death #destroy #disappear

Secondly, security. Both the challenges we face in the world and the responsibilities that our country has in protecting our people, are major issues. We need to do more in the context of domestic security. ↗

— Robert Menendez

#challenges #context #country #domestic #face

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 enlarges the context of human work. Contexts become wrong by being too small - too small, that is, to contain the scientist or the farmer or the farm family or the local ecosystem or the local community - and this is crucial. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#community #context #husbandry #family

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present. ↗

— Neil Postman

#media #television #age

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#contexts #historical #legal #limited #philosophical

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#memory #men