Anachronism Quotes

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This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms

Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.

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.

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.

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.

The absence of a peace treaty [with Japan] is an anachronism we inherited from the past and it must be removed. However, how to do this is a complicated issue.

Dignity is an anachronism.

When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant.

How do you explain plastic to a medieval forest bard?

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.