Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!

James Wolcott

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

Che Guevara

How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?

David Guterson

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

Agnes Varda

I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

Agnes Varda

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.

Charlie Chaplin

If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.

Bret Michaels

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

Most of us grew up with video games in the household, either the original Nintendo in the living room or hoarding quarters for that trip to the arcade. And as time moves on, that line of nostalgia will keep moving forward where 'Frogger' gets replaced with 'Street Fighter 2' or 'Resident Evil 4.'

David Duchovny

I feel nostalgia for the show in a way, ... I'd always wanted it to be a movie franchise. I never thought that when I felt the show ending or when I wanted to leave the show that it was the end of the show. I always thought that it was a natural for the screen. I'm happy to go back and continue it that way.

Jacky Ickx

Historic Grand Prix is a collective nostalgia in the discipline which becomes more and more hermetic to those who are not a part of it.

some great outdoor party songs, some big hits that will encourage in listeners a little nostalgia when the summer has passed, and the kind of tribal energy tracks that make people move!

I think it's become a tourist attraction, which kind of takes away the nostalgia of it, ... I don't like that it's become a tourist attraction and CBGB T-shirts are sold at Urban Outfitters and stuff.

I think people are buying out of early nostalgia and sadness. They are buying up things they loved about New Orleans.

Bill Vaughan

It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back

Elie Wiesel

The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.

Let's get on with the nostalgia at the end of the season.

Carson McCullers

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Edmund White

When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now.

Eduardo Galeano

A unipolar world - one with only one power - makes sure that this space almost disappears. In a multipolar world this space multiplies. Therefore, there is nostalgia for a multipolar world.

Abbie Hoffman

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

A. E. Housman

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

Agatha Christie

The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.

Pete Wentz

There are bands that I got into when I was 15, when I was mad at my dad and just wanted to be different. I don't think I'd give those bands half a chance now. But I hold some kind of nostalgia for them that I won't let go. Bands like Minor Threat and Black Flag.

Doug Larson

Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.

Doug Larson

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

William Gibson

I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.

Tomorrow's 30-year bond auction should attract large accounts and nostalgia buffs that have quietly politicked to get the bellwether back.

Elsa Peretti

A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary.

Steven Pinker

A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature.

Simone Signoret

Nostalgia is not what it used to be (La nostalgie n'est plus ce qu'elle etait)

Gregory Benford

Nostalgia is eternal for Americans. We are often displaced from our origins and carry anxious memories of that lost past. We fear losing our bearings.