Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Shubin

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.

Octavio Paz

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.

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.

The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.

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.

Cynthia Payne

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

Seamus Heaney

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.

Gary Jennings

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.

Bob Weir

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