I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they…

“The later writings of the Old Testament were composed in a degenerate type of Hebrew, often made more difficult by the introduction of archaic…

— James John Courtenay

Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather…

— Kate Atkinson

I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism, let us call it…

— Alain Badiou

It's so archaic. It's just, like, bizarre to me. I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children are going to look…

— Scarlett Johansson

The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free…

— Paula Gunn Allen

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is…

— Northrop Frye

If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind…

— Michael Steinhardt

Dealing with crime using archaic methods has become impossible. So, it's imperative that we change the ways to counter them.

— Nana Patekar

“shrestha (SHRES·thuh) noun When a dream comes true—but not for the dreamer. Archaic;”

— Laini Taylor

“Her husband had archaic ideas about jewels; a man bought them for his wife in acknowledgement of things he could not gracefully utter.”

— Willa Cather

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.

— Dee Hock

What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable,…

— Philip Kaufman

“Archaic humans paid for their large brains in two ways. Firstly, they spent more time in search of food. Secondly, their muscles atrophied. Like…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The formation of a unified standard (biblical) text probably also involved the elimination of terms and structures that were too archaic to be understood…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“For similar reasons, archaic humans did not initiate any revolutions. As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention of new…

— Yuval Noah Harari