Anachronism Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

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

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

“The ages live in history through their anachronisms.”

— Oscar Wilde

September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old stuff. The…

— Martin Amis

“I know that I am going to meet a personal variation on reality; a partial view of reality. But I know also that by…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“How many like her were out there? People to whom the twenty-first century was a foreign landscape. No bright tomorrows for this lot, they…

— Alan James Roll

“The tendency of mechanical progress is to make your environment safe and soft; and yet you are striving to keep yourself brave and hard...So…

— George Orwell

“The universe has a habit of deleting anachronisms. I saw this coming for Fat if he didn’t get his shit together.”

— Anonymous

“In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the…

— Thomas Hardy

“Someday when we get around to writing a genealogy of our failures, inadequacies, and disappointments, an important place in such a study will be…

— Boris Gunjević

“Don't you think you would attract attention?' said the Medical Man. 'Our ancestors had no great tolerance for anachronisms.”

— H.G.Wells

“People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh." [ Afterword ]”

— Michael Chabon