Nostalgia Quotes - Page 20

• I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.

  Umberto Eco

  Passion, Aluminum, Pot

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.

  Mel Torme

  Music, Past, Jazz

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• I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was a great distortion of contemporary life. Photographers were interested only in certain things. A visually interesting place, people who were either very rich or very poor, and nostalgia.

  Martin Parr

  People, Interesting, Photographer

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• I have no sense of nostalgia. Tomorrow is what interests me.

  Francois Pinault

  Tomorrow, Interest

  "Lunch With François Pinault" by Jackie Wullschlager, www.slate.com. April 10, 2011.

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• Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

  Derek Walcott

  Art, Church, Village

  Derek Walcott, “From 'Omeros'”

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• It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. Eventually within the next quarter of a century, the nostalgia cycles will be so close together that people will not be able to take a step without being nostalgic for the one they just took. At that point, everything stops. Death by Nostalgia.

  Frank Zappa

  Fire, Ice, Two

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything with me is normal except when I pitch (in Fenway Park). When I pitch here it's a little different. There is a little more anxiety to go along with the nostalgia because this is the park I grew up with as a kid. This is the park I dreamed of playing Major League Baseball in and no other ballpark has that feeling for me. There are a lot more family and friends here than in my normal starts and I want to pitch well here.

  Tom Glavine

  Baseball, Kids, League

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• The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia

  Pete Hamill

  Fighting, Way

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