#text

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

— Randall Terry

#context #cowardice #justify #out #retreat

I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology. ↗

— L. Ron Hubbard

#i #i am #textbooks #writer

It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition. ↗

— Frank Black

#context #danger #death #fire #includes

I didn't care about that because I'm not a diplomatic person to begin with. I just went along with things and did what I wanted to do because I knew they had to shoot their 12 pages a day. And when they realized that I didn't alter the text they really didn't mind what I did. ↗

— William Devane

#along #alter #because #begin #care

I've always been a composer dependent on texts. ↗

— David Del Tredici

#been #composer #dependent #i #texts

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#conditions #contexts #easy #employed #expression

It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textures on top of it after the fact. But it's one of those things where I wouldn't be able to sit down and specifically write that. That's just what came out. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#added #after #came #composed #couple

We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#cannot #context #describe #designed #form

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#class #detail #experience #intelligent #knows

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#because #danger #imagined #maintained #necessary