I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism. — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition. — Minnie Driver Copy Share Image
The E.U., its institutions, structure and ways of working are an anachronism. — Priti Patel Copy Share Image
My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism. — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
The absence of a peace treaty [with Japan] is an anachronism we inherited from the past and it must be removed. However,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“it was only at that moment—more than a year after her burial, because of the anachronism which so often prevents the calendar… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can't have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it's… — Tana French Copy Share Image
The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
He shouldn't have said that," repeated Adrian, eerily serious. He leaned his face toward mine. "I don't care if he's not the… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Anachronism is not the inconsequential juxtaposition of epochs, but rather their inter-penetration, like the telescoping legs of a tripod, a series of… — Elisabeth Lenk Copy Share Image
If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
In any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One area of the Book of Mormon that does bother some is what they see as anachronistic doctrine; that the Book of… — Daniel C. Peterson Copy Share Image
September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature. — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
“I'm out here moving stocks, you know studying algorithms. Seeing this from another time, anachronism” — David Sikhosana Copy Share Image
“I'll go get the horse and buggy," you'll say. And I'll say, "But I thought we were taking the hovercraft?” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant. — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
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