Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shashi Tharoor

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?

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.

Brad Holland

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

Bob Weir

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

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.

Ann Nocenti

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.

Hankus Netsky

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.

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.

Peter Reith

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

Michael Essien

I don't know why (Lauren) should make out I elbowed him on purpose. All I was doing was protecting the ball... For me, it was not even a foul.

John Simmons

He was just protecting us. That showed us that he'll do what it takes to protect us.

Jonathan Safran Foer

When we talk about protecting our right to have guns, we are talking about protecting our right to shoot bullets. So what is it that's so important to shoot at?

Kurt Knauff

We're treating it, where we weren't treating it before. We were just protecting her.

Larry Mullen

I'm thinking he thought he was protecting them.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m protecting her. (Wulf) From? (Chris) Daimons. (Wulf) Big bad ones. (Cassandra)

Veronica Roth

You promised you wouldn't tell her," she says, pointing at me. "What happened to protecting her?" "I changed my mind," I say. Tris laughs, harshly,"That's what you told him, that he would be protecting me? That's a pretty skillful manipulation. Well done.