Quotes About Nostalgia

Nothing is like it used to be, lady," he said. "The world is almost rotten.

He was four or five.

He didn't have any use for history because he never expected to meet it again.

Quelques détails s'en allèrent, mais le regret lui resta.

I was a huge Rick Astley and Bananarama fan.

I came up in the '80s and '90s - there was no engagement with the fan base.

There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.

I played everything, but the games that kept me up and night and tickled my fancy were the larger role-playing games like 'Ultima.'

I think I'd just like to get in a time machine and travel and never come back. The '20s would be an incredible place to be, dressing up in tuxedos with fancy cars. That sounds incredible.

I never came out to the Hamptons when I was younger - it was always a fancy and exotic place.

My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.

I spent my childhood all over the country. In certain parts where I grew up, films were this fantasy world.

When I was a kid, for me, the '60s seemed so far away. But I was actually born in the late '60s.

When I was child, I was intoxicated by celebrities, showbiz and theatre, but from a child's perspective, where they seem far away.

If you're looking for light entertainment, you can't get much lighter than 'Bye Bye Birdie,' a flyweight farce about the coming of rock n' roll to small-town America.

My dad is a farmer, so I used to love watching 'All Creatures Great and Small' - that's where I got most of my death and drama.

People are getting away from the whole album experience, it's true. I think that's sad. Maybe I'm just saying that because I'm an old fart. But I can't help it - albums are what I grew up with, and I still love them.

I am fascinated with times past.

I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.

I've always been fascinated with the '60s in general.

The Bruins have become so much more to me than some boyhood fascination.

If I'd been an actor in the 1940s, I would have been in fashion.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

'As I Lay Dying,' I reread that often. That's the first work of Faulkner's that I read that so amazed me and that I responded to emotionally and viscerally. I admired it so much, and I think that's why I keep rereading it.