Anachronisms In Gone Quotes

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

H.G.Wells

#2. Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#3. 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 in the last analysis the champion of progress is also the champion of anachronisms.

George Orwell

#4. President of the Society for Creative Anachronisms.

Arthur C. Clarke

#5. Try not to assess your sanity through others. Those who think you should be institutionalized are overreacting and those who think you're stable just aren't paying attention.

Alex Bosworth

#6. A theory is more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the
more different are the kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its range of applicability.

Albert Einstein

#7. The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action.

George Orwell

#8. To me, it is like a diabetic with insulin. If that diabetic stops taking insulin, they will die, and I believe that if I don't follow the 12-step programme, I will regress, and that could eventually be the death of me.

Trinny Woodall

#9. Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms

Jorge Luis Borges

#10. The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

Oscar Wilde

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

Michael Chabon

#12. My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing - that's really inspiring to me and it's influenced me in a positive way.

Melanie Fiona

#13. I found the book, Qur'an,] in spite of "the contradictions, the absurdities, the anachronisms", "rhapsody, without connection, without order, and without art.

Voltaire

#14. There are a lot of anachronisms in Washington, but the need to periodically raise the debt limit by Congressional vote is certainly one of them.

Roger Altman

#15. A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.

Roman Jakobson

#16. One day instead the old woman said kind words to her and gave her an awning on a stick to keep rain off (there has been much rain in purgatorium)

Ali Smith

#17. 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