Quotes About Nostalgia

I have been hooked to cinema since childhood. I am like a typical Indian villager who had no other source of entertainment while growing up.

I'm from a typical middle-class family in Delhi, with one of the most down-to-earth childhoods.

I'm from a typical middle-class family and I grew up in a place without a theatre.

After about fourth grade, I do remember borrowing my mother's old portable Olivetti and typing stories out on the back of photocopies of journal articles.

I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.

I remember seeing Sugar Ray Leonard, Mike Tyson, and the old films of Sugar Ray Robinson.

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

I remember having a Mike Tyson T-shirt back in the day that I used to sleep in. And there some things that Tyson did along the way that I wasn't too psyched to associate myself with. But back in the day, just as a fighter, what a dream that was to watch and root for him.

My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on 'Punch Out.'

When Mike Tyson was only 18, his managers used to market him on posters, reminding you that if your grandfather had missed Joe Louis, or your father Muhammad Ali, don't you miss Tyson.

I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell of the dust as you bump along in a Land-Rover. I go back there often.

Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.

Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.

You look back and you remember the good, the bad and the ugly.

I romanticize. I live with the ghosts of Elvis and Frank Sinatra. It seems so glamorous. They were American men who don't exist anymore. But there are ugly things about them, too.

I used to look at the outfits that I wore when I was 11, and I was like, 'That's really ugly.' I mean, I just thought I was the coolest kid ever and actually wasn't.

My hair was long - in my high school year book, I looked like an ugly David Cassidy.

When I look back to my infancy many images come to mind, beautiful and ugly.

In the old days I never thought about money - but then, of course, the clothes were so ugly in the '80s there was nothing I wanted.

I never thought I'd be able to go back to Ukraine.

The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - it was a cardboard table with a linoleum top - and sing.