Obsolete Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (O) Quotes

"Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can`t send away for it in a catalogue. And I`m afraid it`s becoming obsolete."

- Rosalind Russell

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

- Ronald Reagan

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

- Catherine Deneuve

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

- Charles Schumer

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

- Dr. Seuss

Electronics today is a series of struggles. It`s satellite versus the iPod, satellite versus high-definition radio. That`s why it`s critical for satellite radio to get a foothold in the next three to five years. If it doesn`t, some other technology will render it obsolete.

- Russ Meyer

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

- Kim Elizabeth

Restocking fees are more prevalent in consumer electronics because the merchandise tends to become obsolete very quickly.

- Edward Fox

If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don`t blame the women`s movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.

- Betty Friedan

Adults are obsolete children.

- Dr. Seuss

One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

- Tammy Bruce

The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

- Aberra Deressa

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

- Ahmad Smith

Anything on paper is obsolete!

- Alan McGlade

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today`s kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

- Ali Alatas

I can`t say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn`t make a lot of sense in the long range.

- Ali Dakkak

I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.

- Allan Gregg

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

- Amanda Leahy

New technology is useful, but it`s inefficient and ugly; it knows it`ll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.

- Andrew Frank

Although Edgeworth in the preface justifies much of the work, he must admit that a sizable portion of it is already obsolete. There is scarcely any value in the essays on money, and also in the part about the work on catallactics.

- Andy Hadfield

((IDG) -- Bob Taylor recalls taking the wind out of the sails of a secretary who had just gotten a brand new, top-of-the-line IBM typewriter. It was 1972, and Taylor was heading up a lab at a then two-year-old research facility that was working on a small interactive computer.) She was showing the typewriter off to a group of six or seven people, and I walked over and hit a couple of keys and said, `You know, we`re going to make this thing obsolete,` ... And everyone just looked at me like I was crazy.

- Anne Sekel

We haven`t made any decisions, but in my opinion the building is obsolete as it relates to the vision for the downtown development of Wickenburg. It has worked well in the past, but will probably be replaced with more suitable retail or office space that will better promote pedestrian traffic in the area.

- Arnie Burchianti

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

- Peter Drucker