Quotes About Nostalgia

I don't write diaries and things like that, but I have a fantastic memory. I call that like a magic carpet. I can really concentrate and travel back in the past I don't know how many years from now and evoke that space if I wanted.

Food is so heavily connected to memory.

My favorite song is Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' because my brother used to sing it to me as loud as he could. Annoying then, favorite memory now.

For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

My favorite memory from school was going to football games with my friends. We always had so much spirit and dressed up to go to the games, even though our team was pretty bad.

I'm happy with the Byrds as a good memory.

I love playing in Chicago. It's the memory lane hometown, which is really nice.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.

My greatest inspiration is memory.

I have that memory of dancing on my father's feet to all the music my parents used to listen to.

Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.

I've always wanted to throw a party where everyone comes with their mother's meatloaf. Everybody could evoke their mother's memory through her meatloaf.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.

I always try to write from memory, and I always try to use memory as an editor. So when I'm thinking of something like a relationship or whatever, then I'm letting my memory tell me what the important things were.

I'm just lucky. I do have very clear memories of childhood. I find that many people don't, but I'm just very fortunate that I have that kind of memory.

I grew up around the Luxembourg Gardens, so I guess that is my best memory.

I have a good flavor memory.

I saw footage of Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley just hanging out together in Memphis when they were young guys getting started at Sun, listening to records together. That was beautiful to me.

I like to go back to Memphis, where I started it. I might sit in the hood for three days just putting myself back there.

The first movie that ever scared me, I feel like it wasn't a scary movie. I feel like it was 'Dennis the Menace' or something.

My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.

If I could go into a time machine and be in my 20s again and do 'Flora the Red Menace,' I would. That was always the one. I mean, have they done that? I don't think so. No one's done that show. That was sort of a dream role of mine.