"You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which seems to be seen best for the first time: a curta..."
- Roland Barthes
"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversatio..."
- Jim Jarmusch
"...Data itself... was tolerable. It was the constant nerve-web-expanding pain of context that would kill him."
- Dan Simmons
"Life does not change if you only modify the content, your life will change if you will dare to alter the context."
- Santosh Kalwar
"Community is a context and can either facilitate or inhibit the movement of change for the individual."
- Sharon Weil
"To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety tha..."
- Umberto Eco
"What's writ is what's read, yet the meaning is gone, since context is what gives each quote its own home."
- Will Advise
"It follows that the one thing we should not do to the men and women of past time, and particularly if they ghost through to us as larger than life, is to take them out of their historical contexts. To..."
- Lauro Martines
"You judge people in the context of their time, not in the context of ours."
- Dennis Prager