Quotes About Nostalgia

Je pouvais alors pleurer les yeux ouverts, contemplant ce monde perdu que la force de l'hallucination ressuscitait. Quand on me retrouvait, on me demandait la nature de ce chagrin et je répondais : « C'est la nostalgie. » Bien

Natsukashii definisce la nostalgia felice - risponde -, l'istante in cui la memoria rievoca un bel ricordo che la riempie di dolcezza. I suoi lineamenti e la sua voce esprimevano dispiacere, perciò si trattava di una nostalgia triste, che non è una nozione giapponese.

Toda nostalgia es nipona. No hay nada más japonés que languidecer sobre el propio pasado y sobre su anticuada majestad y vivir la fluidez del tiempo como una trágica y grandiosa derrota. Un senegalés que echa de menos el Senegal de antaño es un nipón que no sabe lo que es. Una chiquilla belga llorando a causa del recuerdo del país del Sol Naciente merece la nacionalidad Japonesa por partida doble.

I have a real weakness for Generation One Transformers. Only Generation One. I loved them as a kid, and I will, when I have the money, search occasionally for the toys that I could not afford but deeply desired as a child.

When I get back to Derry I always enjoy a good fry-up that my mum makes. That's my big weakness. I also eat too much chocolate.

One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money - putting a price on your childhood - is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can't put a price on them.

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it.

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.

Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man.

It was a great childhood. We weren't especially wealthy or anything, but I felt I had a kind of safety and freedom.

His name was Fred Rogers. He came home to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, once upon a time, and his parents, because they were wealthy, had bought something new for the corner room of their big redbrick house. It was a television.

Everything in that era of the 1930s was built to last - cars, buildings, weapons. There was so much passion in everything that was created. The design on vehicles, the costumes, it's like a different world.

I wear modern... vintage.

I think a fragrance is more of a signature than even what you wear - something you'll remember more down the road than a shirt.

I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.

I always wear my dad's shirts.

I only wear vintage clothing. I'm pretty obsessed with things in the '60s, like fashion and music, too.

Both my grandmother and mother used to wear the Red Roses cologne, and when I was 21 or 22, I smelled the same scent on a friend of mine.

I remember watching 'In Living Color' at my grandmother's house in Chicago and Kris Kross came on the screen. I felt I was a part of them because I used to wear my pants backwards and cut holes in my baseball caps to let my ponytail stick through.

I'll always cling to these little girl dresses at vintage shops, and I can never wear them because they're so tiny!

It was not appropriate for me to wear anything like a bustier or to be sexy. It was big hair and hoop earrings and jean jackets.

One of my favorite things about working on 'Glory Daze' is getting to wear amazing '80s outfits coupled with fabulously over-the-top hair and makeup. My wardrobe usually consists of colorful sweaters, denim skirts, high-waisted shorts, crop tops, dangly earrings, jean jackets, and, of course, panty hose and shoulder pads.

I'm such a huge fan of Gap! My mom used to dress me in Gap overalls that I would wear all the time, and now the idea of bringing my son into that tradition is so ironic and full-circle for me.