“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.” SometimesUseBigsTakenOne ThingUpsetPrintFluidStickyOf Context Author:Daphne Guinness
“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.” SocialDifficultSidesDarkTakenMediaSocial MediaProportionSecondsDark SideOf Context Author:Nicola Formichetti
“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.” PeopleSaidPoorTakenFireYeahLikesCommentPoor PeopleRomneyOf Context Author:Conan O'Brien
“The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it is presented as a sequence of propositions. Meaning is distorted when a word or sentence is, as we say, taken out of context; when a reader or listener is deprived of what was said before, and after. But there is no such thing as a photograph taken out of context, for a photograph does not require one. In fact, the point of photography is to isolate images from context, so as to make them visible in a different way.” WayDoeSaidDifferentFactsLanguageTakenRecordsReaderPhotographyPhotographSentencesMake SenseDifferent WaysVisibleListenersPropositionsSequenceDeprivedOf ContextBefore And After Book:Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody else. And that's what I love about random words and phrases taken out of context: everyone applies their own context. If you want to apply something political or meaningful to a word I wrote on the side of the wall, then it's up to you.” IfsWantMeanDifferentPoliticalSidesTakenAdventureWallMeaningfulPhrasesJapanSan FranciscoUp To YouDallasGreat AdventureOf ContextBeijingCopenhagen Author:Ben Eine
“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.” ProblemFilmTakenInternetSceneNakedWebsiteOf Context Author:Clemence Poesy
“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.” IfsHas BeensSaidLyingIssuesTakenPolicyPositionTorturePrisonerVietnameseOf ContextPow Author:Jane Fonda