How To Contextualize Quotes

#1. Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.

Jerry Coleman

#2. There are many bad things in this world of ours, but the use of the word 'monetize' has to rank high among them. Also, 'incentivize.' Actually, all the '-ize' words, like 'contextualize' and 'utilize' and 'prioritize.' And - this is almost too horrible to type - 'juniorize.'

Susan Orlean

#3. The question is not whether or not change and challenge are going to happen. They are. The question is, when they do happen, how are we going to choose to look at them, contextualize them, and navigate them?

Jeffrey R. Anderson

#4. Now that I have you back, I'm never letting you go. That's a promise. I'm not letting you go again.

Colleen Hoover

#5. Art isn't indiscriminate shit-flinging. It's pure communication, crafted with intention and care. Every comedian on every stage is saying what he's saying on purpose. So shouldn't we be welcome to examine that purpose, contextualize it within our culture at large, and critique what we find? The

Lindy West

#6. To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.

Bobby Ghosh

#7. So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to contextualize it
the archaeology, the linguistic pattern, even the climatology.

Spencer Wells

#8. The novelistic attribute of my work is very much like the Russian way of creating novels. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky - their work has so many gaps. But for the reader, you cannot erase those gaps because they are important. They contextualize the whole struggle. My cinema is like that.

Lav Diaz

#9. Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

Aberjhani

#10. If you truly want to succeed, be prepared to go the extra mile.

Napoleon Hill

#11. Adolescent youths cry out for us to help them contextualize their life experiences.

Michael Gurian

#12. Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.

Byrd Baggett

#13. Open skies painted above painted doorways and painted birds skimming across bricks trying to fly away. Little bird, what are you thinking? You come from a can.

Cath Crowley

#14. Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.

Barry Ritholtz

#15. One of the things I've suggested is that it may be that more 9/11s are necessary.

Ward Churchill

#16. Seeing a play, listening to music - you'll always contextualize it in your own way. Whoever you are, wherever you are; I think that's really important.

Peter Doig

#17. When we contextualize faithfully and skillfully, we show people how the baseline "cultural narratives" of their society and the hopes of their hearts can only find resolution and fulfillment in Jesus.

Timothy J. Keller

#18. This did not comfort me.

Cath Crowley

#19. We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

David Oyelowo

#20. You can go to a history class with one teacher and want to stick a pencil in your throat, and then go to another teacher who is able to contextualize it or deliver the message in a way that you're riveted.

Walton Goggins

#21. Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

Amy Poehler