Decontextualized Quotes

#1. People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

Aristotle.

#2. I speculate that the genesis of the chicken-joke lies in some situation such as the one illustrated above, but over time the original context of the joke was lost, which left the chicken sadly decontextualized.

Ryan North

#3. On a Bioware game, if I say anything that's not on the page, It would create a bug in the system, and it would kick back, and I would have to do it again due the technical demands they deal with.

Jennifer Hale

#4. What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was an artist and I was in the studio, then everything I was doing in the studio should be art ... From that point on, art became more of an activity and less of a product.

Bruce Nauman

#5. When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

Hans Haacke

#6. Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.

Paul Davies

#7. You can get what you want. It depends on the strength of your desire.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.

Elaine Stritch