Quotes About Nostalgia

When I was a boy I remember the women, how they dressed, how they behaved, what was important to them at the time. Like Lee Marvin and Gloria Grahame in The Big Heat.

Back then, a few doilies and napkins were all that a lot of women had. In the little house where I grew up, the pillowcases my grandmother embroidered were the only things of beauty.

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy. But, I think I look too jewish for the prairie.

The beautiful 1940s women were a strong influence for me.

I think women secretly yearn for the return of John Wayne and don't even know it.

Gentlemen do not carry a cane or a hat? No gloves?""Gentleman may still wear them, but I'm afraid the problem is that there aren't many left.

Women do not admit to the past, they mourn for past even less. They grab from each moment anything they can reach.

It's weird that I'm putting my old green and gold jersey, and I'm moving on to the cardinal and white. I'm a Stanford Cardinal.

I've seen 48 Stanley Cups in my life. I was about six or seven when I started going to games with my dad.

In Filey, you eat early to prepare for the highlight of the evening: social intercourse of a kind one thought relegated to Stanley Holloway monologues.

The musicals that I loved, growing up - many, many. 'Singing in the Rain,' of course, is a classic, I love 'Meet Me in St. Louis.' I love 'Funny Face,' Stanley Donen's beautiful movie. It's really countless for me.

When you're a kid you always played to win a Stanley Cup in the streets or on the outdoor rinks, and when you do it for real, it's a pretty cool moment, it's something that I'm always going to remember.

I honed in on a great time, the Motown era, the '60s and '70s. That type of music has always been a staple in my life.

My first car was a little white Volkswagen City Golf. They've just been discontinued in South Africa, but they were the staple first car for most of my peer group. It's the most entry-level four-door four-seater that Volkswagen ever made. I named him Doug. I don't know why.

I'm a 90s child and I have grown up on a staple diet of David Dhawan films, Baazigar, Rangeela and Dil Chahta Hai.

Growing up I really loved Mazzy Star, The Cranberries, Fiona Apple, Everything But The Girl. I listened to a lot of really random things too that I would find by myself. I would find Minnie Riperton albums that I would fall in love with, also, a lot of old country records.

When I'm playing 'Rock Band,' I'm like, 'Man, someday, later on in life when I'm a famous rock star...' Which gets a little harder to convince myself of as I reach middle age, but it still happens a lot.

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

I wasn't ready for 'Bright Star' to end when it did.

Like a lot of my experience in seeing 'Star Wars' movies multiple times is really just to relive that feeling of being a kid.

Between the ages of 8 and 12, all I wanted to read were 'Star Wars' books.

'Star Wars' is my heart. I love it.

For me, when I was growing up, everybody I knew was a 'Star Wars' kid.