Top 100 Quotes About Out Of Context
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Politicians take something out of context to create problems.
Anurag Kashyap
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. An example of naming which can easily prompt out-of-context interpretation is a hypothetical method name like harvest_dead_children();
Anonymous
#11. 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
#12. A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
Jack Horner
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.
Cat Stevens
#17. An out-of-context picture is worth a thousand lies.
Gloria Piper
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. The music from my youth has aged poorly and is now like a joke out of context. You had to be there.
Jonathan Tropper
#23. 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
#24. When passages are taken out of context and twisted, the result is a powerful, manipulative, and dangerous weapon indeed.
Lauren Drain
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules.
Helen Oyeyemi
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. It's like seeing your teacher outside school. It's them, but they're all wrong and out of context
D.C. Pierson
#31. Taken out of context, I must seem so strange
Ani DiFranco
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. We're all spies. What do we have if not our rumors, our half-truths, our fragments taken out of context?
Joakim Zander
#39. 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
#40. Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
Randall Terry
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. I feel like a quote out of context,
Ben Folds
#47. 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
#48. I think it's a sin to take a Bible verse out of context. It's like you're twisting the message.
Tijan
#49. 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
#50. Out of context," as Wes Jackson has said, "the best minds do the worst damage.
Wendell Berry
#51. I'd like to meet you
In a timeless placeless place
Somewhere out of context
And beyond all consequences.
Suzanne Vega
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
Ben Folds
#55. 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
#56. Even Satan can quote scripture out of context why are we surprised when men do it.
Gary Rohrmayer
#57. To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.
John Szarkowski
#58. 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
#60. In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot be sold and taken home; they can only be supported ...
Allan Kaprow
#61. In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also.
Robert Mueller
#62. With my records, it's just a matter of trying to create something fresh for myself in a very finite context, which is the pop song. I don't know anything about the people who buy my records, and what, if anything, they get out of them.
Tom Verlaine
#63. We don't want anybody to come off half-cocked and make a decision about what we're only in the middle of doing, right? So if there's shots of me out there, then somebody's going to say, "Oh, that's not the right way. That's not this and that." It has to be seen in context.
Colm Feore
#64. app, 'Functional Ear Trainer' which isn't like any other ear trainer in the way that it teaches you relative pitch in the context of cadences instead of just guessing random intervals. Check out the creator's website here. And
Graham Tippett
#65. Up and down, good and bad, sacred and profane: these are all assumed. But inward and outward: this is the one context we are sure of, the one context we can work with. This is Adiyogi's most significant contribution to humankind and it is a profound and enduring one: "The only way out is in." Once
Sadhguru
#66. Just like the cosmonauts and their pee plants, all we have is each other.
Arthur C. Clarke
#67. When I was running for speaker, people would go out of their way to point out why I wasn't going to win: 'You're a woman, you're too liberal, you're gay, you're from the West Side of Manhattan,' which in that context was an insult.
Christine Quinn
#68. When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point in your life. When you're in a hotel room on the border between India and Nepal you can really discover things about yourself.
David Mitchell
#69. It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.
Carroll Quigley
#70. Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context.
Biz Stone
#71. Dr. Timothy Shutt, in the context of the Illiad, explains the larger meaning of armor in Greek culture. It is the visible reputation of the warrior -- his gravitas, his wake. This allows another warrior to go out and win victories in the armor of Achilles.
Timothy B. Shutt
#72. Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.
Diane Wakoski
#74. It is the spaces we must be concerned with. With clearing them out. Because of the contexts within them. With less context reacting us, we might all be safer. More efficient. I stare at the building across the road, and I wonder about its presence. Its residential spaces. Its malice.
Darin Bradley
#75. You can go out and try to do the best work that you can do within the context of what that is, but it's really gotta be about the work and what you're focusing on.
Johnny Depp
#76. Out in Africa examines the anthropological, cultural and literary representations of male and female same sex desire, as it is at odds with an apparent context of heteronormativity and emphasis on reproduction, in a pan-African context, from the nineteenth century to the present.
Chantal Zabus
#77. All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And that context, astounding even to bodily eyes, is the heaven of stars and the incredible procession of the great galaxies.
William Macneile Dixon
#78. I love being in borrowed houses. I love being a bit out of my context. I miss my context dreadfully, but I'm excited by that.
Joan Juliet Buck
#79. Molly Shannon and I used to always talk about that we really felt strongly that we were comedic actors, that we weren't comedians. You just played things real and the comedy came out of the context.
Will Ferrell
#80. Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
Anish Kapoor
#81. Very sorry to knock you up, Watson,' said he [Holmes], 'but it is a common lot this morning. Mrs Hudson has been knocked up, she retorted upon me, and I on you.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#82. When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.
Toyin Odutola
#83. Well, we're still in the middle of it. And it doesn't show any sign of going away. And these attacks that were - that seemed so odd at the time, with "Satanic Verses," because we didn't have any context for this. You know, where did that come from? It seemed to come out of nowhere.
Salman Rushdie
#84. Steve [Jobs'] brilliance is his ability to see something and then understand it and then figure out how to put it into the context of his design methodology - everything is design.
John Sculley
#85. As a human being on Earth, you can't imagine friendship not being important in some other solar system or some other planet, or some other context of beings that are conscious. We even see it in animals. It is important for people on Earth to reach out or reach into someone.
Steve Martin
#86. I confess I prefer to engage with pictures which I've chosen myself out of the welter of unidentified pictures, without the intrusion of too much personal context - Ilike to be a detective, and dislike being an impresario.
Luc Sante
#88. Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context, it is not just freedom, democracy, and equality that are at stake, but the survival of billions of humans and of whole ecosystems.
Richard Heinberg
#89. 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
#90. I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time, as a means of putting the human experience in context.
Douglas Coupland
#91. take reason out of the interactive context in which it evolved, and nothing guarantees that it will yield adaptive results.
Hugo Mercier
#92. Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple: More community = More disciples Understanding the nature of groups helps you
Ed Stetzer
#93. Whenever I hang out with my female friends, I feel like context is never needed. They can just say two words about something, it's like hearing the first two notes of a song and you can always identify the song. They can just say a word and I know exactly what they're talking about.
Heidi Julavits
#94. I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
Alfred North Whitehead
#96. It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one's faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up God's church.
Gordon Fee
#97. We were all in a tight group on the poop looking at her.
Joseph Conrad
#98. Faithfulness works itself out in the context of complex social, political, economic, and cultural forces that prevail at a particular time and place.
James Davison Hunter
#99. I've often had the fortune to work on projects with a small theme I find very interesting enough to pursue and to be passionate about in the context of the story, then it may turn out there's a universality about my character which still resonates with many people as well.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#100. I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.
John Kricfalusi
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