Quotes About Nostalgia

I think after you write something and you're finished with it, there is a sense of loss. That this is a world I can't really re-enter the way that I could when I was working on it. The covers of the book close it to the writer.

Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

As I was finishing high school, 'Fresh Prince' was, by far, out front. The generation before me, it may have been the Huxtables, but for me and my homies, Fresh Prince.

I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.

To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago's second city of garages was my young life's passion.

My father took me to buy fireworks, and now I'm doing it for my kids.

Growing up in Arizona, I love fireworks, shooting off bottle rockets and M80s.

A first love is something that lasts forever in your heart. It's something that marks you.

Emilio Estevez was definitely my first love.

If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.

I grew up on theater, and honestly, I'm trying to figure out a way with a family and kids and living in Los Angeles to get back to the stage because it is my first love.

When we grow up, we tend to forget our first crush, first love, as we move along. Only when you see something on TV or hear someone say something do you go back to those moments.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to try the retro style in the first place, because many musicians have left masterpieces in the genre, and I felt burdened by this.

My father used to be a fisherman, so it always makes me feel close to him when I am there on the water catching my dinner.

I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!

I've always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it's more when it fits in.

I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.

I miss everything that surrounds the club. I miss my colleagues, my friends and everyone who cares for Barcelona.

As far as hip hop, I ain't even gonna front, it was 'Rapper's Delight.' That was the first thing I heard where I was like, 'Whoa.' You take that beat and do something over it. I started collecting records after that, old records.

I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I'd sing for whoever's on the door, and they'd let me in. I used to think I was Nat King Cole back in the day, you know. So I'd sing something like, 'Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you,' and they'd let me in.

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don't know what happened to it. I don't know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever's got it, you suck.