Anachronism Quotes

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

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Modern
  • Mediaevalism

• Yeah, on the records, the guitars are made melodic, and I try to make it memorable. There's not much just wanking, to be honest - it's mostly melodic parts. I try not to play too many notes. It's just more instrumental music. It's a totally valid criticism if you don't like that kind of thing. It also is maybe a little anachronistic or unnecessary in a certain way.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Criticism
  • Records
  • Guitars

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

  

  Minnie Maddern Fiske
  • Theater
  • Specialization
  • Anachronism

• A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Soldier
  • Anachronism

• I love traditional instruments, though of course they are anachronisms. Satellites run around our planet, but we still play bassoons. It's ridiculous!

  

  Witold Lutosławski
  • Running
  • Ridiculous
  • Instruments

• 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.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Past
  • Complicated
  • Absence

• 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
  • Faith
  • Poetry
  • Acknowledgement