Anachronism Quotes

23 quotes by 23 authors

One area of the Book of Mormon that does bother some is what they see as anachronistic doctrine; that the Book of Mormon has Christian… — Daniel C. Peterson
Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments...free-market pundits bemoan the evident intention of Obama… — Jeffrey Sachs
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
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms — Jorge Luis Borges
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal… — Herbert Butterfield
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 showing… — Lev Grossman
The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation,… — Arthur Koestler
If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The Leavers were chapter… — Daniel Quinn
I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism. — Margrethe II of Denmark
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 force itself, the… — Noam Chomsky
If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and… — Ben Lerner
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson
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
Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in hand and we… — Peter Brook
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
I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is still a vital… — Paule Marshall
This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism. — Minnie Maddern Fiske
A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid. — George Bernard Shaw
You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition. — Minnie Driver
When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant. — Andy Warhol

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