Quotes About Past

In past reality show, I have had love connections.

All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.

It is going to be an experiment of how it works, and I see I have all reasons to believe that it will work fine. But it's a short time. And we also have pushed the envelope here a little beyond what has been done in the past.

One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it.

I write - so it would seem - to recapture, to preserve and return to the past, though I might just as easily be writing to forget and put that past behind me.

In the past, I've been lucky enough to receive some high praise, but when the experts have a go, I'm usually not particularly interested in what they have got to say.

Before you can challenge a received narrative about the past, you should be expert in its established contours.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.

I recently read a collection of stories called 'Boondock Kollage,' by Regina Bradley. The stories follow multiple characters through the South, through the past and present. I loved reading that book: the first time I read the opening story, I was breathless and incoherent.

I wanted to really delve into the idea of reckoning with difficult things in one's past - and celebrating the joyful things, and honoring the stories that have made me who I am.

There have been albums I've recorded in the past that have had success, and then there have been ones I've had extreme faith in, and they ended up as commercial failures.

My past has been recorded, it's been videoed. It's been exploited all over the Internet.

I've almost never played the 'Smiths' records, once they've gone out. I was always like that and probably always will be.

You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.

I don't think one can recreate the magic of old films.

Nearly everyone I know seems to have a well-developed theory as to why this country is past redemption, or almost, and every theory seems almost right.

In the information age, you can study all you want and discover the past in order to rediscover the future.

With devotion at the center of your awareness, you don't have to refer to your past in order to make a choice of how to respond or react in any given situation.