Archaic Quotes

70 Archaic quotes by 64 unique authors

I do have rules, and etiquette things. I think it's a southern thing too, to an extent. I'll hold the door for someone, but if… — Chris Black
A millennial belief in a Holy God may have the effect of deepening the soul, but it is also obviously archaic, and modern influences would… — Saul Bellow
This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most… — Beth Ditto
As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision… — Gary Snyder
Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than… — Kate Atkinson
Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action.… — Joseph Campbell
I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude.... the love… — Gary Snyder
The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not… — Northrop Frye
Licking Falls, Ohio, had its own set of standards. They were archaic at best. — Jeaniene Frost
Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel. — Anne Lamott
And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in… — Erin Morgenstern
Citizens across the United States are now uniting in a great cause to establish a Department of Peace, seeking nothing less than the transformation of… — Dennis Kucinich
The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather than… — Raymond Loewy
My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the… — Seamus Heaney
Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life. — Brad Holland
That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art. — Mark Rothko
In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to appear… — Thomas Harrison
Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws. — Cynthia Payne
They're protecting an archaic industry. They should turn their attention to new models. — Bob Weir
The gaze implies a concentration of the spectator's activity into that of looking, the glance implies that no extraordinary effort isbeing invested in the activity… — Unknown Author

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