Top 35 Quotes About Anachronism
#1. One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.
Margrethe II Of Denmark
#2. Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
Oscar Wilde
#3. Datelines are kind of an anachronism. It's a little bit of an affectation.
Andrew Rosenthal
#4. When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant.
Andy Warhol
#5. When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.
Louis Sullivan
#6. They will never again build like this, he thought. Dignity is an anachronism.
Ellen Glasgow
#7. THE ALLIGATOR IS AN ANACHRONISM THAT CAN EAT YOU!
Karen Russell
#8. My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
#10. The anachronism is the worst thing to use at the theatre.
Albert Camus
#11. Like the Society for Creative Anachronism, The Ballad of the White Horse depicted "the Middle Ages as they should have been." Chesterton's ballad made a lasting impression on Robert E. Howard, who praised it in letters to his friend Clyde Smith.
Joseph Laycock
#12. 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 a friendly anachronism into our modern time.
Joseph Goebbels
#13. 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
#14. This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.
Minnie Maddern Fiske
#16. If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so constituted a kind of acknowledgment of my own preposterousness, admitting my bad faith in good faith, so to speak.
Ben Lerner
#17. The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.
Stanislaw Lem
#18. Anachronism becomes a problem only in questions of historical meaning, and even then anachronistic analogies can still have heuristic value.
John J. Collins
#20. 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
#22. I don't know what young fellows want to go in for those sort of things for?" I said. "Wars are a waste of time; and advertising is all lies." "I am afraid, my dear Mister Le Page," he said, looking very sorry for me, "you are an anachronism.
G.B. Edwards
#23. After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English departments of the more expensive American universities.
Charles Krauthammer
#24. You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.
Minnie Driver
#26. I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.
Rose Leslie
#27. A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.
William Carlos Williams
#29. Palestine is only a stones throw away for a small Palestinian boy or girl.
Yasser Arafat
#30. We must picture Oxford, during World War I, not as the neomedieval paradise it would like to be, but as the military compound it was obliged to become.
Philip Zaleski
#31. Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.
Martha Beck
#33. Some people find fault like there is a reward for it
Zig Ziglar
#35. I'll go get the horse and buggy," you'll say. And I'll say, "But I thought we were taking the hovercraft?
David Levithan
