#text

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#anthropology #beings #context #experience #human

No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#crucial #enough #even #ever #every

Tone can be as important as text. ↗

— Edward Koch

#text #tone

The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#into #life #man #omnipresent #our

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 think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with. ↗

— Michael Emerson

#director #get #go #help #i

In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#consensus #context #democratization #effective #embody

Textbooks are Soviet propaganda. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#soviet #textbooks

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#art #artists #before #collaborated #colleges

Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real. ↗

— Tim Burton

#actor #always #as far as #brilliant #edge