Quotes About Nostalgia

McCullers is one of those rare writers who remembers what childhood is like. Not incidents, which anyone can recall, but states of mind, which are so difficult to recreate.

I always thought it would be nice to have a Christmas number one. If nobody remembers you for the rest of the year, they'll remember you at Christmas.

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance.

I am a very close friend of Sanjay Dutt and people still remind us of our film 'Vaastav.'

I always cling to things that remind me of being a kid again.

Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children.

With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.

If you were to look at an old 'Betty Boop' cartoon or an 'Out of the Ink Well' animation, there are many things about 'Adventure Time' that really remind you of that, even though it doesn't look like any of those cartoons.

People have a lot of strange relationships with food. There's a lot more going on there than just, 'Oh, these crullers remind me of my childhood.' We have a darker and more complex relationship to food.

I have to remind myself that it may never be this good again.

I like finding things that are on the fringes and sort of half-forgotten, and to remind us of those things.

All the time I see things that remind me very much of the 1930s.

I don't need to be reminded that I was on 'Friends.' I remember - some of it, anyway.

I liked 'Z Cars' - just hearing the music got me going! 'Coronation Street' was massive in our house. My mum used to say Ena Sharples reminded her of Gran, which she wouldn't have been happy to hear!

I think 'Badlands' is my favorite movie because it reminded me of where I was from.

I used to go round to my granddad's house on a Saturday morning, and we'd sit and eat our porridge and watch re-runs of 'Steptoe and Son' on BBC Two. I thought it was hilarious - and Rag 'N' Bone Man sounded like a blues name to me. It reminded me of people like Sonny Boy Williamson and Big Mama Thornton.

When I was preparing for '1994,' the song for Deena and Sam was 'Fast Car' by Tracy Chapman. I just really love that song so much, and I think the lyrics really hit home and reminded me of their dynamic.

When I started to use fewer ingredients in my cooking, I was reminded of the uncomplicated flavours of my childhood.

'True School' is one great big reminder. It's a reminder to everybody in that middle school bracket that was in school when playing hard to get was out.

Pop music is a constant reminder of what you were doing at the time, it holds all sorts of memories.

Despite living in an increasingly digital world, there are a few things I still like to keep as physical reminders. So every time I see an exhibition, I make a pit stop at the museum gift shop to buy a postcard of something that inspired me.

I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.

I did more sessions than I remember doing. There were a lot of things in the Seventies that I played on that people keep reminding me about.