Nostalgic Quotes - Page 5

• I labored for eight years thinking that I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.

  Jeff Kinney

  Children, Book, Writing

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• I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships. Twelve- to 20-year-olds are maybe the largest economic force in the US movie business. I'm not a very nostalgic person - but I enjoy a good story.

  Harrison Ford

  Thinking, Years, Games

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The nostalgic notion of the family orchards is lovely - all that wholesome fruit for our forebears to sit on the back steps biting into - but basically we were growing it to drink.

  Barbara Holland

  Lovely, Growing, Biting

  Barbara Holland (2008). “The Joy of Drinking”, p.2, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• For any American who had the great and priceless privilege of being raised in a small town there always remains with him nostalgic memories... And the older he grows the more he senses what he owed to the simple honesty and neighborliness, the integrity that he saw all around him in those days.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Honesty, Memories, Integrity

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• The Sunnis continue to see themselves, possibly for nostalgic reasons, as the most influential group and want a stronger central government - quite unlike minorities in other countries. The circumstances here are far more complex than many people in Washington imagine.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Country, Government, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I've never been good at being nostalgic, and I've never been able to focus on sound without having a voice that's very here-and-now.

  Jenny Hval

  Voice, Focus, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I love listening to old records to keep nostalgic feeling; it allows me to not lose the love for hip-hop.

  Rakim

  Hip Hop, Feelings, Listening

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Bush administration made us nostalgic for ... well, any other time in history.

  Hal Sparks

  Administration, Made, Wells

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• I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.

  Douglas Coupland

  Ideas, New Ideas, Happenings

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I don't remember things initially when listening to music. Like, I don't remember where I first heard a song, I don't have nostalgic attachment to a song in that it reminds me of such and such a time or place. I think I probably did experience that somewhat when I was not a full-time, professional musician, but I don't think music works that way for people who are in it constantly.

  Stephin Merritt

  Song, Thinking, Attachment

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• I'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.

  Agnes Varda

  Memories, Mind

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

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• We live here and now. Everything before and in other places is past. Mostly forgotten. What could, what should be done with all the time that lies ahead of us, open and unshaped, feather-light in its freedom and lead-heavy in its uncertainty? Is it a wish? Dream-like and nostalgic, to stand once again at that point in life and be able to take a completely different direction than the one that has made us who we are?

  Pascal Mercier

  Dream, Lying, Past

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• I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had led me to live in a parallel world of pure invention, shut inside my solitude. Naturally, it was precisely for that purpose that it was made and that was why I took pleasure in it, but I wanted to regain body and roots.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Roots, Solitude, Purpose

  "Batons rompus". Book by Jean Dubuffet, pp. 34-35, 1986.

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• Is it possible to be nostalgic about old fears?

  Peter Ackroyd

  1992 English Music, ch.1.

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• Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.

  Raymond Aron

  Political, France, Utopian

  Raymond Aron (2011). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, p.31, Transaction Publishers

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• Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.

  Richard Ford

  Art, Children, Real

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• I do not want to write beyond this point, because those days when I studied relentlessly are nostalgic to me; and on the other hand, I am sad when I think how I have become increasingly preoccupied with matters other than study.

  Hideki Yukawa

  Writing, Science, Thinking

  Hideki Yukawa (1982). “Tabibito”, p.207, World Scientific

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• In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's life, of surfaces and locomotion, usually seems too dangerous and demanding to live through with any confidence.

  Jonathan Raban

  Cities, Community, Badges

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• When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Careers, Sometimes

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• It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past.

  Robert Breault

  Past, Way, Nostalgia

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• I lived in upstate New York until I was ten years old and we moved overseas. I have a lot of nostalgic memories of that part of the world, and I love going back there by writing the Lakeshore books.

  Susan Wiggs

  New York, Memories, Book

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• I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.

  Mark Gatiss

  Disease, Nostalgia, Caught

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• Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Museums, Innovation

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Barrington Nevitt, Harold Adams Innis (2005). “Marshall McLuhan: The argument: causality in the electric world”

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• I’ll put it out there: I am scarred by the nostalgic indicipherability of my own desires; I an engulfed by the intimidating unknown, pushed through darkness and dragged down by the irretrievable past sweetness of my memories.

  Anne Sexton

  Memories, Past, Darkness

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• People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

  Robert Wyatt

  Thinking, People, Wish

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