KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Quotes for topic: Context


Share this page on

Showing 21-30 of 177 quotes in the topic Context

I quickly learned that as a fiction writer, you need the sort of details a historian or a biographer would find extraneous or useful to provide context via a footnote.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Context Details Fiction Fiction Writer Find Historian Learned Need Provide Quickly Sort Useful Via Would Writer You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The progressive integration of new technologies in our economy amounts to a paradigm shift with a profound impact on the context and content of work.

~Alexander De Croo

Topics: Amount Content Context Economy Impact Integration New New Technologies Our Paradigm Profound Progressive Shift Technologies Work

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: Context Designers Exotic Get Inspired Like Most Out Random Sail Seeing Set Sitting Something Subway Time Walk Who Work

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I think there's a big difference between loving someone out of duty and dependency and loving someone because you really are able to sort of grow and be whole in the context of that relationship.

~Alexandra Fuller

Topics: Able Because Between Big Big Difference Context Dependency Difference Duty Grow Loving Out Really Relationship Someone Sort Think Whole You I Think

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'.

~Alfonso Cuaron

Topics: About After Aware Came Context Doing Historical How How Much Loved Mama Much Narrator Over Realized Saw Story Until Voice

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

~Alfred Marshall

Topics: Almost Common Context Every Interpreted Many Meaning Needs Shades Therefore Use Word

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: Altogether Context Deal Destroyed Distorted Either Great Great Deal Juxtaposition Matter Meaning Mine Out Quite Quoted Sentence Some Suffered Which Who Writers

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I share personal things about myself in the context of my interviews and in 'It's Messy' - but that's 20 percent of my life.

~Amanda De Cadenet

Topics: About Context Interviews Life Messy My Life Myself Percent Personal Personal Things Share Things

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


There was one vampire movie that Gerard Butler was in, 'Dracula 2000,' and they touched on something interesting, but it only worked in the context of that particular movie, which was that the original vampire was Judas.

~Amy Heckerling

Topics: Butler Context Dracula Interesting Judas Movie Only Original Particular Something Touched Vampire Which Worked

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Always Another Anything Author Book Context Elevated Favorite Find Finish Immediately Mood Other Place Present Present Time Relative Same Time Want

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Popular Authors

Hubert H. Humphrey Carl Jung Soren Kierkegaard Eartha Kitt Beyonce Knowles Martin Luther Joseph Stalin Booker T. Washington

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1920 - Ray Bradbury

1822 - George Stoneman

1832 - Julius Sterling Morton

1854 - Charles Fillmore

1862 - Claude Debussy

1891 - Jacques Lipchitz

1902 - Leni Riefenstahl

1904 - Deng Xiaoping

1908 - Henri Cartier-Bresson

1914 - Jack Dunphy

Birthdays on August 22nd
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Cool Funny Hope Men Politics Science Strength Time