How do you explain plastic to a medieval forest bard?

When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like…

— Joseph Goebbels

One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is…

— Lev Grossman

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms.

— Garry Kasparov

Some of my favorite photos from the old days are of people who maybe didn't know how to smile. Maybe smiling in photos wasn't…

— Ransom Riggs

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.

— Roman Jakobson

“The biggest anachronism, usually, in a historical movie is, again, the author doesn’t want to be thought to in any way share the social…

— Thomas E. Woods Jr

If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality…

— Ben Lerner

Dignity is an anachronism.

— Ellen Glasgow

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms

— Jorge Luis Borges

“THE ALLIGATOR IS AN ANACHRONISM THAT CAN EAT YOU!”

— Karen Russell

The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically…

— George Orwell

I call myself a gorgeous anachronism.

— Jinkx Monsoon

The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this…

— Arthur Koestler

Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.

— John Dewey