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 Copy Share Image
“Don't you think you would attract attention?' said the Medical Man. 'Our ancestors had no great tolerance for anachronisms.” — H.G.Wells Copy Share Image
“People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh." [ Afterword ]” — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“The universe has a habit of deleting anachronisms. I saw this coming for Fat if he didn’t get his shit together.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Someday when we get around to writing a genealogy of our failures, inadequacies, and disappointments, an important place in such a study… — Boris Gunjević 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
“How many like her were out there? People to whom the twenty-first century was a foreign landscape. No bright tomorrows for this… — Alan James Roll Copy Share Image
“The tendency of mechanical progress is to make your environment safe and soft; and yet you are striving to keep yourself brave… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which… — Alain de Botton 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
“In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image