Archaic Quotations

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.

I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute.

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

They're protecting an archaic industry. They should turn their attention to new models.

The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures. What makes a country a world leader? Is it population, in which case India is on course to top the charts, overtaking China as the world's most populous country by 2034?

Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.

My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland.

I was raised to ignore it. It was something my mother's generation saw as an embarrassment. It was corny and archaic and not pushed as something an up-and-coming musician wanted to learn. My mother wanted me to write Broadway shows.

Green Arrow was a very complicated character to take on because he has archaic weaponry. Catwoman, I think is more of a simple archetype to grasp, so it will be about nuance. But I think you need three or four issues before you say, 'Ah ha! Now I really know how to write this character!' You're carrying them around with you.

Our government promised it would fix up the waterfront, its inefficiencies and its archaic work practice, and we meant it.

To improve service, the IRS needs to break out of its technological time warp from the 1950s and 1960s, ... In the long run, this new partnership will help us replace archaic technology with the modern tools we need to deliver top-quality service to taxpayers.

Sometimes laws are bad because they are undemocratic and sometimes laws are bad because they are archaic, but section 329 (the ban) manages the stunning achievement of being both undemocratic and archaic at the same time.

This is not some archaic branch of evolution. This is our branch of evolution. This is our wrist. This is the evolution of our neck.

If you're no longer growing together, you have to part ways and go on. I think that 'death do us part' is an archaic aspect of marriage. It's not really applicable. I think about my grandparents who were married for 60-odd years, but they hated each other. That was the custom then, and I don't really think that's the healthiest approach.

Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.

The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather than places to enter.

It's an archaic process. It can be done with more rapidity, in a better pricing environment, skipping the third party in toto. I wish I could figure out a way to short seat on the Exchange.

The business model - where books can be returned, and where a 50% sell-through is considered acceptable - is archaic and wasteful. Writers get small royalties, little say in how their books are marketed and sold, and simple things like cover and title approval are unheard of unless you're a huge bestseller.

It only sounds archaic if people aren't having a good time,

The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.

her archaic and stereotypical notion that men shouldn't have access to her perspective.