Context Quotes

"Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life." "Content is king, but context is God." "What's past is prologue." "We are not makers of history. We are made by history." "We study history not to know the future but to widen our horizons, to understand that our present situation is neither natural nor eternal, and that we consequently have many more possibilities before us than we imagine" "There is no outside-text" "A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world" "Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times" "What is past is prologue." "The devil can cite scripture for his purpose." "You can't just take something, put it in a different context and expect it to be funny" "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast Nothing exists in itself " "Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another." "You can do universal themes in a community setting but you can't do community themes in a universal setting." "People are looking for stories in everything." "Everything is a symbol of something else." "When you’re writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can’t just be out of the air"