“It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.”
Nostalgic feeling
Nostalgic Quotes — page 54 of 136
“Sometimes the Warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once.”
“Well, when people ask where I'm from, I usually say the Midwest, because that covers both homes, in a way. Obviously I was born in Omaha, but when people say, "Where do you come from," we'll say Milwaukee. I mean Jennifer was certainly born in Milwaukee, and that's where I spent a big chunk of my adult life, so we usually say we came here from Milwaukee. That's usually how it's referenced is we're from Milwaukee, yeah.”
“I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.”
“There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.”
“[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, " Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.”
“No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.”
“I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.”
“I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.”
“I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?”
“In my little town, Sighet, which is in Romania, Hungary-Romania, but a real shtetl, a little [Jewish] village - and we began with the Chumash [Pentateuch], probably at age four.”
“The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.”
“Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!”
“An altered look about the hills; A Tyrian light the village fills; A wider sunrise in the dawn; A deeper twilight on the lawn; A print of a vermilion foot; A purple finger on the slope; A flippant fly upon the pane; A spider at his trade again; An added strut in chanticleer; A flower expected everywhere.”
“Sailor Moon' was my favorite cartoon of all time, and I'm still kind of obsessed with it. I own all the DVDs to watch it at home.”
“You always are changed when you come back from summer camp.”
“Harry Potter's like Santa Clause: something you can't see but wish was real so badly that you end up believing in it.”
“I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.”
“My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked I didn't know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time.”
“My roots are in my record player.”