Quotes About Nostalgia

I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the page with such an edge of desperation.

I remember lying on the floor of my room, staring at a black-and-white television for most of the '80s - watching 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' 'Silver Spoons,' Saturday morning cartoons, and 'Murder, She Wrote' while eating an insane amount of Stouffer's French bread pizza. I was sucked into it all.

I remember I'd come home from fifth, sixth grade, and I'd watch 'Saved by the Bell' and be like, 'I hope my high school experience is like that.' And it totally wasn't. It sucked.

I'm a sucker for a sad song.

I'm a sucker for movie reruns. Anytime they're on, I can't leave the house.

I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve.

I'm a sucker for 'When Harry Met Sally' and all that romantic stuff.

Nostalgic myself, I am a sucker for other men's nostalgia.

I'm a sucker for period pieces. There is always great opportunity for research and to delude yourself into feeling like you are in a different time and place.

I'm a sucker for sad disco pop.

I've always been a sucker for a dog called an Alaskan Malamute. It's like a little husky... my dad had one when he was younger.

I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.

I am a sucker for that childhood romance narrative.

I'm a sucker for a good country song.

I am a sucker for an old pair of Levi's and a worn-out shirt.

Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.

I have been playing this game since I was 7 years old, and to all of a sudden recognize that you're not going to do it anymore is hard.

I remember pogs and sticky hands. I remember both. I wanted to get into pogs. I remember it was, like, all of a sudden it was here, then gone.

I grew up on these long, drawn-out stories with four pay-per-views a year where things paid off. Everything was done for a reason. Then all of a sudden, I find myself in NXT and I get to play that out. I'm playing out my childhood.

I watch these old films in black and white, and suddenly the door opens, and there I am. The other day, I was wearing the most awful hat.

The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me.

I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very important and if they can reconnect with that day, reconnect with the people they were then, they can suddenly revive their emotions.

They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best.

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.