Throwback Quotations

Lauryn Hill's always been a hero of mine. And Bruno Mars, Janelle Monae and Adele, those are the current artists I would reference in terms of who's been able to do really amazing pop records with really cool, organic throwback elements of soul in there as well.

I have a home phone number, and I like it! It's like a throwback already.

In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the airport served only two carriers, Western and Bonanza. Passengers could catch regional flights to San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and that was about it.

I like when people have Western style, but it's throwback Seventies-ish. I like pearlsnap shirts and a bow-tie like the KFC man.

It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.

In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it.

J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday.

Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that's when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past.

Would people still use the same demeaning language talking about European gypsies or immigrants? It is fundamentally an old, 19th-century throwback to the idea that that these people are somehow like our ancestors, or backward. It conveys that they are somehow not as intelligent as we are; that they haven't progressed as far as we have. It is fundamentally a colonial mentality.

The Meatbats are a throwback band.

Sean is such a hard nosed hockey player and his style really makes him a throwback because of what he can do on the ice. I love Sean, he has been a great player for this program.

I don't know when's the last time Miami had a terrible season and looked terrible on the field. But that first half, that might have been a throwback to that time.

Hawk is a special guy. He's a throwback to an old-time football player and just a quality individual.

He's easily one of the top two players who have played here, if not the best. Not just because of athletic skill but what he brings to the game. He's a hard worker every day. He goes home late, does it in the classroom. He's kind of a throwback to the 1960s, when most all kids were like that. He reminds me a lot of how I used to approach the game.

He's a throwback pitcher from the day. The game's changed quite a bit since then, but I can still learn. If you think you know everything that's when you'll be sadly mistaken. If I can take some input that he has and apply it towards what I'm doing out there and use it, then that's a good thing.

He's a throwback kid. These days, every kid has a cell phone, but he doesn't.

He's a throwback kid. He has consideration for others, respect for others and is caring. He's not going to use foul language around adults. He'll be the first to help with the luggage. I look at him as an old-school guy.

I think it was just a throwback weekend. We're back to our originals. But it was neat that the guys did appreciate it.

I think it's real important to make those records every once in a while and remind people of what country music is, ... The roots where it came from, where we got what we have. This is sort of a throwback to Dolly, George Jones, Merle Haggard. That's my favorite kind of music. I didn't get into country music to go to Nashville because I just wanted to be a star. I went there because I had such a passion for that kind of music.

I think this is a throwback World Series to the pitching-heavy days. Honestly, I think the two best teams are playing, and you can't always say that. I think this looks like a long World Series.

The recent missions carried out by the SDF significantly deviate from the minimal limitations for the purpose of self-defense. This is not a throwback to the past.

The recent missions carried out by the SDF significantly deviate from the limitations for the purpose of self-defense. This is not a throwback to the past.

This was an important win for us. In our standards, this was like a throwback game defensively. So, it was what we needed. I think this team needed this win.

Those who have seen this particular piece of rough animation say that it is 'simply stunning'. A wonderful throwback to the sort of films Disney used to make.

Everybody talks about Lifetime being the first fusion band, but it was really sort of a throwback to what was going on when I started out in Boston.

As the astounding vastness of the universe becomes obscured, there is a throwback to a vision of a universe that essentially amounts to earth, or one's country, or state or city. Perspective becomes myopic.

There's reality shows and things like that and I think 'Parenthood's kind of a throwback to what we used to have back in the '70s, '80s and '90s. People want to see this again, and I feel like it's just a solid, good show.

These are wild animals and shouldn't be held captive and used as production machines. Fox hunting and all it involves is a throwback to the past. It doesn't have a place in modern society.

These attempts by the Russian state and religious leaders to suppress the right to protest are a throwback to the bad old days of czarist and communist totalitarianism. No amount of threats and intimidation by the mayor of Moscow, the Chief Mufti or the Chief Rabbi will halt the gay freedom struggle in Russia.

a throwback to the players of old. They are not afraid to play with pain.

They see me as, as one of those throwback fighters. When I enter the ring, I am coming in there to fight. And that is what this fight is all about. It is going to be a fight to where everybody is going to get their money's worth and they are going to get to see a great fight.

It's a throwback to see women still in these subservient roles. They were part of the future, which was nice, but they were still getting coffee.

It's a bit of a throwback to an old trick.

It's almost a throwback concept. They're very clean stores. They're wholesome; very much focused on comfort food. They have very much a family orientation; a good mix of families and young kids.

It was a classic, a throwback to the old days. This is our postseason. For us to get there and get to that second season, these games are enormously important.

It was a classic, a throwback to the old days, ... This is our postseason. For us to get there and get to that second season, these games are enormously important.

They wrote a great character and it's been fun playing a guy that loves America, loves his job, believes in doing the right thing. Doggett has a lot of codes that he lives by and I think it's a throwback character. I believe in a lot of things Doggett believes in.

I think my jab has a lot to do with having a throwback trainer in Virgil,

He's unbelievable. Just great stuff. Competitive. He goes out for the seventh inning and strikes out the side. That shows you he's definitely a throwback guy. He didn't look to go out of the game there. ... There's no telling what he can do.

He's like a throwback the way he can serve and volley. He puts shots away, and him and William (a sophomore), I've never had a 1 and 2 that talented, they're just so talented for being so young.

He ain't gotta be flashy. That makes you appreciate him more. I think he's an old-fashioned throwback type. He just goes out there and gets it done.

For the last several years politicians of both parties have learned the best way to handle a problem like this is to bare their souls. Cheney is a throwback to another era.

All that stuff was fun, but I'm glad we didn't rethink the show. It is what it is, a throwback that isn't like anything else out there. It has that deliberate, artificial feel to it. It's something from the soundstage era. People haven't seen that for a while, so it seems fresh. It came along at the right time.

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.

Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.