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Quotes About Obsolete

The 'smoke-filled room' as political reality is now as dead as Prohibition.
~ Theodore H. White
The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or whether it be obscured or disfigured, as is the case with sinners; or whether it be clear and beautiful as is the case with the just.
~ Thomas Aquinas
I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a lot of kids. There were schools just for these kids. There was a whole world that doesn't exist anymore.
~ Christopher Walken
University lectures are an obsolete practice inherited from the Middle Ages when books were scarce. Students should read, not listen. To swallow instruction from a lectern is like sipping through a straw. Lectures pander to the vanity of the lecturer and stimulate conflict between academics.
~ Virginia Woolf
Unutacak kadar eskide ve galibada kald? hepsi.
~ Latife Tekin
Behind them, empty bookshelves. Bird has never seen books on them, but there they stand, fossils of a long-gone era.
~ Celeste Ng
One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
~ Tammy Bruce
An old dream with a shiny new veneer. It's fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometimes adopted and stylized in an attempt to ghoulishly preserve it. These are the days of second-hand fantasies and antiquated hysteria. ("The Chymist")
~ Thomas Ligotti
It's fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometimes adopted and stylized in an attempt to ghoulishly preserve it. These are the days of second-hand fantasies and out-of-date distractions.
~ Thomas Ligotti
An old dream with a new veneer. It's fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometimes adopted and stylized in an attempt to ghoulishly preserve it. These are the days of second-hand fantasies and out-of-date distractions.
~ Thomas Ligotti
Cash is going to be killed. It will be nostalgia.
~ Tyler Winklevoss
We did some soul-searching. Was the cable industry obsolete? Was it an opportune time to get out? Our conclusion was that if you rebuilt your system with this new fiber-optic coaxial hybrid - which we now call broadband - the glass was half full, not half empty. We could compete.
~ Brian L. Roberts
I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.
~ Kent McCord
If Meekmahan ever came to the Hardy compound, I would tell Meekmahan, face-to-face, 'You'll fade away and classify yourself as obsolete! Obsolete!'
~ Jeff Hardy
I don't write political music. Political music is immediately obsolete.
~ Krzysztof Penderecki
One odd result of allowing super-enhancements could be that children will become like iPhones: a new version will come out every few years with better features and apps. Will children as they age feel that they are becoming obsolete? That their eyes don't have the cool triple-lens enhancements that are engineered into the latest version of kids? Fortunately, these are questions we can ask for amusement but not for an answer.
~ Walter Isaacson
You people don't know what the truth is! It's there, just under the bullshit, but you never look! That's what I hate most about this fucking city-- Lies are news and truth is obsolete!
~ Warren Ellis
The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
~ Charles Lamb
I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
John Stuart Mill in 1848: "It is commerce which is rapidly rendering war obsolete, by strengthening and multiplying the personal interests which act in natural opposition to it.
~ Lawrence Freedman
We're not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We're not even the Next-New-Thing Generation. We're the Soon-to-Be-Obsolete Kids, and we've crowded in here to hide from the future and the past. We know what's up – the future looms straight ahead like a black wrought-iron gate and the past is charging after us like a badass Doberman, only this one doesn't have any letup in him.
~ Tim Tharp
A Truer, Grander Vision "You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." —
~ Pam Grout
that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone.
~ Patricia A. McKillip