Nostalgic Quotes

You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work, at all.

The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments are terribly serious-think of Cervantes!

When we're afraid we shoot. But when we're nostalgic we take pictures.

I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and the rest of them just rats or meaningless people.

For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story.

You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.

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.

Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.

You can't compare eras. But drivers of each era adapt to the needs and climate of their time. There are good and bad points to every era of the sport. I'm not really nostalgic about the past.

I don't think of myself as a particularly nostalgic person.

Nature inspires me because it's so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic.

There's a lot of fiction from that period that we're nostalgic for.

Usually, we have some of those nostalgic moments like, "Oh my god, I can't believe we survived that day," because filmmaking is such a wild roller coaster ride.

I am not nostalgic for the past. And for me, being a museum curator was a childhood dream.

You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.

A lot of people in their 30's get nostalgic for their teen years. Then they get jobs in TV, become bitter and jaded and prematurely old. Then they turn their nostalgia into great television.

I'm of course nostalgic for Barack Obama all of a sudden.

I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the cultural conversation and popular musicians had this absurd level of authority.

Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.

Whenever I'm around people it causes me to feel nostalgic for the loneliness that drove me into their presence in the first place.

In a funny way, I like the past, I'm a very nostalgic person.

I'm nostalgic and I do think about a "what if."

I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.

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

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.

I think you can only be nostalgic for something you've lost.

I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.

I'm not a nostalgic person. I'm not nostalgic about much of anything.

I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

I'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!

I'm really nostalgic for Malibu area because I've spent so much time there. People don't think of California as having a history.

I've always had a talent for recognizing when I am in a moment worth being nostalgic for.

I think people are always nostalgic for a time about 20 years before they were born.

I like being nostalgic and maybe crying a little bit.

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.

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.

I can see how some people get sentimental about how we used to do things in 'the good old days' but in a way I just think they are being nostalgic for the way they were brought up.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.

I'm not really a nostalgic person.

Is it possible to be nostalgic about old fears?

[My muse] feels nostalgic for Japan, and, perhaps strangely, for the pioneer days of America.

And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.

I was nostalgic even as a young man. Preferred listening to Opera not Bing Crossby.

It's nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people's lives. A lot of people who come to my show are real nostalgic for the '80s.

I just hope the film [Aquarius] doesn't feel overly nostalgic because too much nostalgia for me leads to depression. I think Clara is very pragmatic.

I was obsessed with The Sound of Music. I always feel nostalgic watching it.

I am always nostalgic being in New York. Every neighborhood represents something to me. I lived here until I was 60 years old or so. So it was my life.

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.