Archaic Quotes

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

Life, Art, Everyday

Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy... until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France.
Francois Hollande

Nothing, Person, Him

This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.
Beth Ditto

Woman, Idea, Social

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

Art, Spiritual, Why

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.
Andrew Bird

Words, Meaning, Guess

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.
Dee Hock

Mind, Room, Furniture

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
Philip Guston

Society, Alone, Heart

The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people's radar, and for good reason. It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go 'round and 'round.
Billy Gibbons

Music, Good, Different

What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.
Philip Kaufman

Time, Words, Almost

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
Bridget Riley

Spiritual, Values, Painting

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

Change, Sex, Action

In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to appear both arcane and archaic.
Thomas Harrison

Age, History, Experience

The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.
Larry J. Sabato

Life, Change, Respect

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

Attention, Turn, Industry

Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes in a small percentage of homes in random areas.
Jim Rash

Technology, Small, Makes

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