Anachronism Quote by Jefferson Smith Download Open image ““How do you explain plastic to a medieval forest bard?”” — Jefferson Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anachronism Fantasy Humor Humour Plastic Technology Young adult
“He loved to draw. Animals pouncing mostly. And trees. Always lone trees in black landscapes.” — Malorie Blackman Copy Share Image
“And for a time the tree stood blighted, trying to raise its stumted arms, a creature clubbed mute, only its sudden voicelessness making us… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“And the man then said Oh, please: Just let me know if you come upon bark textures that recall the erosion patterns of human… — Evan Dara Copy Share Image
“A tree is a fantastic example of beauty, but who has time to look at a tree?” — Janwillem van de Wetering Copy Share Image
“In nature, nothing is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways and they're still beautiful.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“It seemed for a moment as if something was there, loitering between the knurled and towering cherry trees, a flash of a presence as… — Hazel Butler Copy Share Image
“I told the tree it was going nowhere in life. It was hurtful, but true. Now, maybe in death it will go somewhere, as… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“You moved too much like a hunter, padding silently next to the row of plastic plants as you made your line toward me.” — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
“There's something solid and constant about trees." I said quietly. "They may change through the seasons, but they're always there. They're dependable.” — Julianne Donaldson Copy Share Image
“There's a special kind of man who plants a tree when he knows he'll move on before it's big enough for him to sit… — Sandra Dallas Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up. — Jefferson Smith Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed how grateful you are to see daylight again after coming through a long dark tunnel? Always try to see life… — Jefferson Smith Copy Share Image
You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain. — Jefferson Smith Copy Share Image
I'm free... to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't. I can. And my children will. — Jefferson Smith Copy Share Image
“She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.” — Jefferson Smith Copy Share Image
“In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.” — Jefferson Smith Copy Share Image
Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion. — Jefferson Smith Copy Share Image
“Your king is SUPPOSED to explode? What kind of government system is that?” — Jefferson Smith 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 smiles like… — Joseph Goebbels 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 before this… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
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 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 and marginality… — Ben Lerner 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
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 Copy Share Image
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
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 Copy Share Image
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 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 associations. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
