Of Context Quotes

#1. Priority is a function of context.

Stephen Covey

#2. Broken Windows theory and the Power of Context are one and the same. They are both based on the premise that an epidemic can be reversed, can be tipped, by tinkering with the smallest details of the immediate environment. This

Malcolm Gladwell

#3. Pictures couldn't tell the whole story anyway. That was the other thing about them - they were always a carefully edited glimpse, a story out of context.

Sarah Ockler

#4. Every politician brings in a wide range of context, promises and characters to bring his mission of you to listen to his words and vote for him and later he won't listen to you at any range.

Auliq Ice

#5. Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history.

Marjorie Garber

#6. TheIinternet is a timeless void - you put something in there, and it's there forever and loses a lot of context.

Evan Spiegel

#7. I just don't want to give out interviews. I just hate them. Inevitably, I ended up hurting some people or leaving some names out or getting quoted out of context.

Jerry Perenchio

#8. My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued to say is that the POW's are lying if they assert it was North Vietnamese policy to torture American Prisoners.

Jane Fonda

#9. Politicians take something out of context to create problems.

Anurag Kashyap

#10. As we cannot hangout with a machine and tell what exactly to do, we just hang a few things out of context and say, "doing this would still do"!

Prakash Hegade

#11. The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this.

Katy Perry

#12. Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take them before they bury it.

John Waters

#13. Denialist arguments are often bolstered by accurate information taken wildly out of context, wielded selectively, and supported by fake experts who often don't seem fake at all.

Michael Specter

#14. What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve.

Tom Brokaw

#15. An example of naming which can easily prompt out-of-context interpretation is a hypothetical method name like harvest_dead_children();

Anonymous

#16. Headlines are so great in a sense that they can take a little bit from an article completely out of context and blow it into something it's not. Some people really only read headlines.

Kristin Cavallari

#17. A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

Jack Horner

#18. Data itself ... was tolerable. It was the constant nerve-web-expanding pain of context that would kill him.

Dan Simmons

#19. We also came to recognise that coaching was less about us as heroes or villains, and more about how we managed the pressures, constraints and possibilities of context

Robyn L. Jones

#20. If we wander around as politicians jumping at every shadow and desperately afraid of having our words taken out of context or attacks layered on in an unfair way, I think we're actually doing a disrespect to Canadians, to people's intelligence.

Justin Trudeau

#21. I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.

Nicholas Hoult

#22. For tonight, I have to get back to Three's Company. I stopped last night in the middle of the episode where Mr. Roper saw something and took it out of context.

Andy Weir

#23. Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.

Cat Stevens

#24. An out-of-context picture is worth a thousand lies.

Gloria Piper

#25. I like writing characters that seem different from one another. So if you were to hypothetically look at a bunch of lines from books I've written, just out of context, hopefully you would be able to determine who said what. That's the goal, anyway. I try to strongly differentiate through dialogue.

Charles Soule

#26. Only brand names register in the mind ... What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand.

Al Ries

#27. Most of my critics don't even listen to me; they are clueless. They just go to Web sites that report what I say out of context.

Rush Limbaugh

#28. People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality.

Joe Biden

#29. The music from my youth has aged poorly and is now like a joke out of context. You had to be there.

Jonathan Tropper

#30. That's the thing about this other side we're on. There is no landscape. If you want to see things in any kind of context, you have to pick a context. You have to take one from home.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#31. Modern design becomes the eye catcher because it's out of context, it is something newborn and fresh, something people have never seen before. I mean, that in itself is the way we should sort of stimulate the senses of society, this urban condition.

Ross Lovegrove

#32. The three rules of the Tipping Point - the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, the Power of Context - offer a way of making sense of epidemics. They provide us with direction for how to go about reaching a Tipping Point.

Malcolm Gladwell

#33. When passages are taken out of context and twisted, the result is a powerful, manipulative, and dangerous weapon indeed.

Lauren Drain

#34. You might not feel like playing pretty all the time. Instead, you might want to play something nasty ... you might want to play something out of context with the tune. It might be a note that creates so much tension it becomes unpleasant, but you want it to sound that way.

George Benson

#35. What about him?" she'd say, finding an attractive guy to point out while they were standing in the lunch line. "Do you want to kiss him?"
"I don't want to kiss a stranger," Cath would answer. "I'm not interested in lips out of context.

Rainbow Rowell

#36. I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.

John Dewey

#37. I believe is that we can forecast the "changing landscape of context," and thus get insight into when we are entering the danger zone of an X-event.

John L. Casti

#38. The world is better served by syncretic economists and policymakers who can hold multiple ideas in their heads than by 'one-handed' economists who promote one big idea regardless of context.

Dani Rodrik

#39. I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules.

Helen Oyeyemi

#40. I liked taking the elements of roadside advertising out of context because it removes the imperative and just goes to the essence of it - the pure heart of advertising.

Stanley Donwood

#41. You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say 'God is love,' they will claim that you are taking things out of context!

Dan Barker

#42. Her eyes are wide and steady beneath the brim of her floppy cap. How far out of infancy do we lose this gaze, with its utter absence of expectation or prejudice? What is it like to simply see what is before you, without the skew of context?
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Michael Perry

#43. All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false ... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.

Errol Morris

#44. It's like seeing your teacher outside school. It's them, but they're all wrong and out of context

D.C. Pierson

#45. Taken out of context, I must seem so strange

Ani DiFranco

#46. There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band looked like, or even what sort of context the music was played in.

Robert Crumb

#47. I'm a huge Nirvana fan and I like seeing things that at first seem out of context, but actually they're one of the biggest bands in the world. I like to see pop culture, like punk or alternative culture, clash with some other type of culture.

Nick Zinner

#48. I think if you're able to make the music you want and you can do it in the right kind of context, you don't have to be a circus ringleader to be successful.

James Iha

#49. Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use it to attack them.

Keith Ellison

#50. Mitt Romney is saying his comments about liking to fire people were taken out of context. Yeah, what he actually said was he likes to set poor people on fire.

Conan O'Brien

#51. When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

Aaron Sorkin

#52. I think Canadians are tired of politicians that are spun and scripted within an inch of their life, people who are too afraid of what a focus group might say about one comment or a political opponent might try to twist out of context, to actually say much of anything at all.

Justin Trudeau

#53. The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all.

Nicola Formichetti

#54. We're all spies. What do we have if not our rumors, our half-truths, our fragments taken out of context?

Joakim Zander

#55. You cannot just quote from history and above all you cannot take it out of context, in however humorous a fashion . On the contrary history has a natural continuity which must be respected

Gottfried Bohm

#56. Except science now tells us that luck is there whether you acknowledge it or not. And I'm afraid in your case I see the signs of a history of bad luck. Not even a latency so much as a full-blown case going completely ignored for lack of context.

Jonathan Lethem

#57. Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

Randall Terry

#58. I think we have a high responsibility to base any criticisms that we have on a fair and honest statement of the facts, and that nominees should not be subjected to distortions of their record, taking things they've done out of context.

Jeff Sessions

#59. I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.

Alexander Wang

#60. Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.

Jason Calacanis

#61. The still image continues to have a ton of strength. An image taken out of context from one fraction of a second to the next can tell a story, and if photographers are looking to tell a certain story, they can curate those slices of time to their advantage.

Jill Greenberg

#62. Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies. Nobody is conscious - not in the systematically mysterious way that supports such doctrines as epiphenomenalism. *It would be an act of desperate intellectual dishonesty to quote this assertion out of context!

Daniel Dennett

#63. I feel like a quote out of context,

Ben Folds

#64. Of course, uh, the universe is gradually slowing down and, uh, will eventually collapse inwardly on itself, according to the laws of entropy when all it's thermal and mechanical functions fail, thus rendering all human endeavors ultimately pointless. Just to put the gig in some sort of context.

Bill Bailey

#65. When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

Thomas Frank

#66. if a leader combines leadership principles with an understanding of context, there will be effective execution.

Russell E. Palmer

#67. I think it's a sin to take a Bible verse out of context. It's like you're twisting the message.

Tijan

#68. You need that marketing power. You need to go do the interviews. You need to put yourself out there and risk and be open to the fact that people are going to not like you, and they are just going to rip you apart, and whatever you say in an interview can get quoted out of context.

Sharlto Copley

#69. We want to see ourselves as curious and open-minded and smart and understanding things in terms of context and nuance, but when someone tries to do that in the midst of a shaming they're turned on.

Jon Ronson

#70. Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

Peter M. Brant

#71. Out of context," as Wes Jackson has said, "the best minds do the worst damage.

Wendell Berry

#72. I'd like to meet you
In a timeless placeless place
Somewhere out of context
And beyond all consequences.

Suzanne Vega

#73. The devil is a master at making us question God and His Word. Twisting Scripture ... taking a verse out of context ... deceiving us into thinking God is mean-spirited - these are some of Satan's favorite tricks.

Billy Graham

#74. Empathy isn't just listening, it's asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see.

Leslie Jamison

#75. That's the problem with the Internet: You do a naked scene and then it's taken out of context and put on websites that have nothing to do with film.

Clemence Poesy

#76. To arrive in the Rocky Mountains by plane would be to see them in one kind of context,as pretty scenery. But to arrive after days of hard travel across the prairies would be to see them in another way, as a goal, a promised land.

Robert M. Pirsig

#77. I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.

Ben Folds

#78. If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in The New York Times.

Anna Wintour

#79. Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

John Wyndham

#80. As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.

Steven Sinofsky

#81. Even Satan can quote scripture out of context why are we surprised when men do it.

Gary Rohrmayer

#82. There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear
obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite
may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but
perception, viewed through various prisms of context.

Amish Tripathi

#83. To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.

John Szarkowski

#84. I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.

Daphne Guinness

#85. A FACE SEEN OUT of context creates confusion.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#86. To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.

Indira Gandhi

#87. In the context of fiercely monolingual dominant cultures like that of the United States, code-switching lays claim to a form of cultural power: the power to own but not be owned by the dominant language...Code-switching is a rich source of wit, humour, puns, word play, and games of rhythm and rhyme.

Mary Louise Pratt

#88. Moral judgments are linguistic survivals from the practices of classical theism which have lost the context provided by these practices.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#89. Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.

Sonia Sotomayor

#90. I like suggesting that 'we are slaves to the objects around us,' that 'plenty should be enough,' or that the 'buyer should beware,' within the context of conventional selling space.

Barbara Kruger

#91. It is easy to fail when designing an interactive experience. Designers fail when they do not know the audience, integrate the threads of content and context, welcome the public properly, or make clear what the experience is and what the audience's role in it will be.

Edwin Schlossberg

#92. And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know.

Clare Short

#93. In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

John Howard Griffin

#94. I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?

Sheryl Sandberg

#95. Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context, I strongly advocate an absurd amount of specification to go along with the label.

Sasa Stanisic

#96. Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing.

Mariel Hemingway

#97. Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little ingenuity, you can make the Constitution mean anything you like.

Joseph Sobran

#98. I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.

Ira Sachs

#99. No matter how hard you try to put everything neatly into shape, the context wanders this way and that, until finally the context isn't even there anymore. You're left with this pile of kittens lolling all over one another.

Haruki Murakami

#100. If Poindexter made a comment to me like that, it would have been in the context of once the authorized program is approved there would be no point in having any of these private benefactors any longer.

Robert M. Gates