Anachronistic Quotes

#1. ... but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin.

Gregory Maguire

#2. The FBI continues to be a broken, anachronistic organization, but state and local law enforcement officials are much more attuned to the kind of threat we're facing. I think that's very hopeful, but it's a long-term process.

Michael Scheuer

#3. All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us.

Frederick C. Beiser

#4. The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet.

Murray Gell-Mann

#5. African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.

Julius Nyerere

#6. Apparently, using two spaces after a period has become anachronistic. But tell that to my right thumb. -

Dani Shapiro

#7. If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

Erich Fromm

#8. The coding was anachronistic, kind of like bokeh in a renaissance painting.

Sorin Suciu

#9. Surely in a world of email, video conferencing and virtual assistants, isn't being expected to show up at the office extremely anachronistic? Yet to date it seems that where one works does matter. That creativity and innovation do feed off physical interactions between people.

Noreena Hertz

#10. Until Islam can do what Judaism and Christianity have done - question, critique, interpret, and ultimately modernize its holy scripture - it cannot free Muslims from a host of anachronistic and at times deadly beliefs and practices.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#11. Yes, agriculture subsidies are far too generous. They need to be reined in because they cater to special interests while distorting free market competition. Yes, the farm laws are an anachronistic mess.

Juan Williams

#12. I have to agree with Artforum publisher Charles Guarino: "It's the place where I found the most kindred spirits - enough oddball, overeducated, anachronistic, anarchic people to make me happy." Finally,

Sarah Thornton

#13. Yet in a few milliseconds he could see the headlines of any newspaper he pleased. (That very word "newspaper," of course, was an anachronistic hangover into the age of electronics.) The text was updated automatically on every hour;

Arthur C. Clarke

#14. Mine is a so-called vintage existence, anachronistic living, made all the more rewarding by keeping a raised eyebrow on the absurdities of modern life.

Fennel Hudson

#15. I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.

Garth Stein

#16. We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.

Mark Zandi

#17. The unfair composition of the Security Council is largely acknowledged. The principal defects are the anachronistic privileges of the five permanent members of the Council and the Council's insufficient representativeness.

Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

#18. Captured by the ideological animus, both socialist and liberal-democratic art abandoned the criterion of beauty - considered anachronistic and of dubious political value - and replaced it with the criterion of correctness.

Ryszard Legutko

#19. The current Baptist view that God condemns "homosexual behavior" and same-sex marriages comes from the same kind of broad and anachronistic scriptural readings as prior support for segregation.

Anonymous

#20. Her English was sweet, an effort for her, anachronistic and unpractised.

Ruth Ahmed

#21. Multiculturalism helps immigrants postpone the pain of letting go of the anachronistic and inappropriate. It locks people into corrupt, inefficient, and unjust social systems, even if it does preserve their arts and crafts. It perpetuates poverty, misery, and abuse.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#22. From a distance, at a time of urbanization and connectivity, rodeo and ranching may seem anachronistic notions - quaint and sepia-toned from an America that no longer exists.

John Branch

#23. I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#24. Anachronism becomes a problem only in questions of historical meaning, and even then anachronistic analogies can still have heuristic value.

John J. Collins

#25. We were very ... anachronistic. The love that dared not speak its name.

Martha Moody

#26. Royalty mostly seem like members of some anachronistic faith, like the Amish, peculiar in gilded buggies.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#27. I don't have to say so because people can see it from leagues away. I am ugly, shy and anachronistic, but by dint of not wanting to be those things I have pretended to be just the opposite.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#28. There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#29. Each of us, I think, adopts a comfortable and familiar era or place in which to plant ourselves; and from then on, that which disagrees with our memories
a new building here, a change in paint there
is forever jarring and anachronistic.

Daniel D. Victor

#30. No compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism.

Stephen Jay Gould