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Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: 'Open Bar.'
— William E. Geist
Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia. — Zeena Schreck
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia. — Zeena Schreck
I'm not a nostalgic person: I never look back; I always forget.
— Carine Roitfeld
I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.
— Michael Tippett
Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.
— Barry Lyga
I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?
— Julie Burchill
I can hardly keep track of the things I don't know, but every now and then comes an ignorance that makes me nostalgic.
— Erri De Luca
Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.
— Thalassa Cruso
His boredom was like a nostalgia for the whole world. He was homesick for everywhere but here.
— Christopher Isherwood
My style was nostalgic and involved pearls and penny loafers, always with the pennies in them.
— Mia Sara
There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.
— Joe L. Wheeler
And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.
— Rosemarie DeWitt
I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.
— Frederick Wiseman
The nostalgic is never a native but a displaced person who mediates between the local and the universal.
— Svetlana Boym
Is it possible to be nostalgic about old fears?
— Peter Ackroyd
Anything you think is wrong with your body at the age of thirty-five you will be nostalgic for at the age of forty-five.
— Nora Ephron
I am not a nostalgic person.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That's why it's called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry.
— Mithun Chakraborty
One day you will be nostalgic for today.
— Lang Leav
And though I am not nostalgic for what we did have, I am hopeful about life being filled with everything we didn't.
— Chelsea Fagan
We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.
— Nina LaCour
Aberystwyth (n.)
A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for. — Douglas Adams
A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for. — Douglas Adams
I truly hope the future will bring me something to feel nostalgic about, because there's really nothing much so far I can remember fondly.
— Elliott Smith
Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar ...
— William Faulkner
The nostalgic is looking for a spiritual addressee. Encountering silence, he looks for memorable signs, desperately misreading them.
— Svetlana Boym
When you've lived through the golden age of photojournalism, there's no point in being nostalgic.
— David Burnett
The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.
— Kate Christensen
Never look back; you may only find what you left or let you go.
— Stefanos Livos
Nostalgia can be more painful than a surgeon's knife.
— Anurag Shourie
Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down.
— Craig Kilborn
I'm again a twelve-year old dreamer, a girl fascinated by an ancient piano and with Rona Lubliner's fingers.
— Victoria Avilan
I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.
— Walt Disney Company
The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'
— P. J. O'Rourke
From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.
— Simon Schama
Suddenly I was nostalgic for something I'd never known.
— Rick Riordan
We were, fair queen, /
Two lads that thought there was no more behind /
But such a day to-morrow as to-day, /
And to be boy eternal. — William Shakespeare
Two lads that thought there was no more behind /
But such a day to-morrow as to-day, /
And to be boy eternal. — William Shakespeare
Underwater madness slipping into a haze, drowning and choking in repugnant nostalgic thoughts.
— Karen Quan
I wanted to give 'Droptops' away for free because it doesn't sound like my album. It's way more like a nostalgic Cool Kids sound, but that's me too.
— Chuck Inglish
I've never been good at being nostalgic, and I've never been able to focus on sound without having a voice that's very here-and-now.
— Jenny Hval
To write, I need to remember, but I write to forget. I drink to forget, then get nostalgic when I'm drunk.
— Shoshaku Jushaku
All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.
— Annie E. Clark
My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign.
— Jonathan Lethem
There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
— Paul Simon
To be in the South in my first big job was very nostalgic. There is an energy to the way we do things in the South.
— Anna Wood
You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work at all.
— Elvis Costello
I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.
— Pierre Boulez
Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.
— Raymond Aron
It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back
— Bill Vaughan
I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change.
— Stacy Schiff
Elise asked what nostalgic meant, and Jewel said, It's where you think the past was better than it really was, only because the present sucks so bad.
— Hugh Howey
All couples get nostalgic about the start of their story.
— David Levithan
I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.
— Douglas Coupland
Most 'Monty Python' fans are, of course, baby boomers, who have long been a nostalgic lot and are growing more so as they totter toward old age.
— Terry Teachout
It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past.
— Robert Breault
[Nostalgic sentiments] are nothing other than the rosy illumination of a past that has been spared the shadows of the present.
— Georg Simmel
I'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
— Agnes Varda
I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.
— Lucy Grealy
Whenever I'm around people it causes me to feel nostalgic for the loneliness that drove me into their presence in the first place.
— Dov Davidoff
I've always had a talent for recognizing when I am in a moment worth being nostalgic for.
— Lena Dunham
Just like that, he's gone. Things can change so quickly. One second you're in the present, the next you're remembering the past.
— Janet Gurtler
If it was time that made me lost what we were, then i hate time ...
— Maira Zafred Marinho Mesel
We were together. I forget the rest.
— Walt Whitman
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
— J.G. Ballard
I'm a nostalgic guy.
— Kevin Connolly
I am not nostalgic for the past.
— Christian Lacroix
Looking at old photographs inundates you with a flood of nostalgic emotions! And you can't be sure where you want to swim in the deluge of memories!
— Avijeet Das
I am nostalgic of an era I never knew.
— Lana Del Rey
we always knew
that good times came
with termination contracts
even if we weren't quite ready
to sign it. — Sanober Khan
that good times came
with termination contracts
even if we weren't quite ready
to sign it. — Sanober Khan
If I were a doctor, I would diagnose his condition thus: "The patient is suffering from nostalgic insufficiency.
— Milan Kundera
I'm sure when I have a nostalgic, teary moment in 10 years time, I'll try to put the glasses when I was 10 on and cry to myself in front of the mirror
— Daniel Radcliffe
Books have a smell, for instance. One that gets better - more nostalgic - as the years go by. Does this gadget of yours have a smell?" "Nope,
— Stephen King
It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be
— Kristen Ashley
Publicity is in essence, nostalgic. It has to sell the past to the future... According to publicity, to be sophisticated is to live beyond conflict.
— John Berger
I'm not really a nostalgic person.
— Patti Smith
You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.
— Colin Greenwood
Rather than getting nostalgic ... embrace the new opportunities and challenges available to you now.
— Richard Branson
Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nostalgic for a simpler, slower time.
— Matt Ridley
I remembered his laugh, like a flock of crows taking off
— Maggie Stiefvater
If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome!
— John Oates
Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.
— Larry McMurtry
When I smell pho, I just automatically think of my mom. All these nostalgic feelings and memories come rushing through my head.
— Michelle Phan
I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
— David Bailey