#context

When ideas are detached from the media used to transmit them, they are also cut off from the historical circumstances that shape them, and it becomes difficult to perceive the changing context within which they must be viewed. ↗

— Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

#historical-perspective #media-studies #change

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#delusion #extremism #fanaticism #fanatics #guerrilla-decontextualism

In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the 'other' party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#believe #cabinet #context #contribute #could

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#context #dreamed #everything #finish #hear

Taken out of context I must seem so strange. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#i #must #out #seem #strange

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#around #context #deliberately #i #i am

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#any #awhile #been #context #find

I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#cultural #i #inner #instinctive #linked

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. ↗

— Michael Keaton

#context #exponentially #goes #gone #how

I'm constantly playing this game in my head where I'm thinking, 'Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?' It doesn't matter what outlet I'm talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, 'Right, but 'People' magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.' ↗

— Anna Kendrick

#comprehensive #constantly #context #could #down