I think a lot of times when people talk about merchants, it’s almost a nostalgic look back at the time where the world moved at a very different pace, and information was very different.
You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. When you go back to Britain, everybody is just running everything down. It’s like whatever the opposite of a hug is.
What we see is what they’re trying to sell us. It’s not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it’s less expensive than new material.
To get nostalgic about other people’s music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future. I have no patience with that kind of attitude, whether it’s on radio or among friends.
I started finishing ‘Nostalgic’ while trying to graduate at the same time. I graduated from high school, got my diploma, and my life just started when I completed ‘Nostalgic 64.’
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.
Well, ‘Problematic’ was the opposite of a show that was nostalgic and a light fluffy look at life. We were literally trying to kick a hornets’ nest, and I don’t know how effectively we did or didn’t do that.
When a lot of people watch these Victorian-era shows, they’re in love with the costumes, the romance, the whole sweep of it all. But there is nothing nostalgic about ‘The Knick’ at all.
I am just pitifully nostalgic. I can’t help but roll my eyes at myself frequently. I mean, I still shoot black-and-white film. And I am constantly reminiscing about the ‘good old days.’ I’m 28 years old. There haven’t even been that many ‘good old days.’ But still, I love to look back.
I’m incredibly nostalgic for the ’80s, because I think that’s when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.
There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that’s what a parent’s tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.
I guess that’s always the mystery of music. It’s like why does this song make me feel so grey or why does it make me feel sad or happy or nostalgic and so I’m most fascinated by breaking that down in my music.
My favorite is ‘The Last Coyote.’ I’m not saying that’s the best book I’ve written; I hope I haven’t written my best book yet, but that one was the first book I wrote as a full-time author, with my full-time focus. I have a nostalgic feeling about it.
I go back to things that are nostalgic for me – Michael Jackson, the Beatles, Britney Spears, Stevie Wonder.
When I was growing up in the eighties, there was a real nostalgic streak for the fifties. Look at ‘Back to the Future.’
I remember watching ‘Quantum Leap’ when I was a kid with my family, so I think that’s fun and nostalgic.
I have a thing for major 7ths. They’ve got a very mournful, nostalgic quality to them.
I’m a nostalgic guy.
I am not nostalgic for the past.
The blues is so expressive – nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It’s a nuance-filled thing.
I love nostalgic pop music. The ’80s especially, to me, is the greatest era of songs. I just love the ’80s so much.
Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood – the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody solicitous will bundle me into a car and drive me to the nearest briny horizon.
I remember when ‘Nostalgic 64’ first dropped, and it became popular, Shady wanted to sign me at one point.
There seems to be a real taste for the fantastical these days. People like to get back into their imaginations. Maybe there’s something a little nostalgic about ‘Grimm’ and the fairy tales that they grew up with. And it’s a very unique approach to the procedural side of things.
I’m very nostalgic – and I don’t care.
I’m not nostalgic for my glory days in college. It was lame for me. Probably because I had no friends.
And I did feel there was an album to be made about winter that can make you feel the way Sinatra and Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline make me feel – warm, nostalgic and comforted.
There’s a fun, nostalgic aspect to Legos – people connect to the art on a different level. But it’s also a medium that lets me design anything I can imagine. I especially enjoy creating curvy forms using rectangular pieces. Up close, you notice the sharp angles, but when you back away, the corners blend into curves.
Seeing a time period captured in film, you know, it does make you feel nostalgic.
We were taking some photos one day in front of one of these old antebellum homes, and one of us said the word. And we all kind of stopped and said, ‘That could be a name!’ … It just feels kind of country and nostalgic.
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
There’s a nostalgic aspect to the ‘Iron Man’ franchise for me.
I’m someone who is very sentimental and nostalgic and attached to the homes I lived in, and I think moving is a traumatic experience.
I think people are always nostalgic for a time about 20 years before they were born.
If we are indeed nostalgic for the weight of clock time, it is worth remembering that the standardized time that most of us know has only been around since the mid-nineteenth century. It was invented for the railroads.
St. Lucia in South Africa is this exotic place where you might go on vacation, and it evokes this nostalgic, hazy vibe.
Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down.
I love to look back, but I don’t want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I’m trying to get that electricity.
I’m not sure whether it counts as a talent, but I love playing ‘Magic: The Gathering.’ It’s mathematical and intellectually challenging, and makes me feel nostalgic for when I played as a kid.
For a very long time, loyalists were often left out of patriotic American histories of the revolution. Or they were caricatured as upper-class Tory reactionaries, or – rather like the Jacobites – made the subject only of nostalgic antiquarianism.
From the very beginning, history wasn’t content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.
Brazil is strewn with ruins of projects – refineries, power plants – begun but never finished. Most of this investment never landed in places or industries that really meshed with the trajectory of the global economy. This wasn’t state-of-the art industrial policy. The projects seemed curiously nostalgic.
An underexplored reason why nostalgic art is worthwhile is that it influences the way the past is remembered.
Seven’ is this kind of nostalgic, emotional folk song.
I’m terribly nostalgic, but I’m with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It’s a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.
Wisconsin will always be home to me in a nostalgic kind of way.
I don’t feel like a very nostalgic person. I think about the past much more clinically. When I look back and wonder, ‘Why was I doing that? Was it a waste of time?’ I don’t beat myself up. Instead, I say, ‘I’m so glad I did that, because now I really know what matters to me.’
I remember Geauga Lake. I remember Six Flags. I remember going to the mall. I hung out there. These big, grand places that served as pinnacles of the community were not only institutions or places of commerce. They were communal spaces where a lot of people went and shared good memories. These are very nostalgic places.
I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.
It’s very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I’ve already experienced and moved forward from. It’s like seeing an old girlfriend – awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.
Nostalgic myself, I am a sucker for other men’s nostalgia.
I know it’s hard to blame the time, but there’s a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that ‘Superman Returns’ was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don’t think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer.
I always have been and will remain someone who loves real, 3D, substantial books. And I don’t believe that it’s a wistful, nostalgic interest like vinyl collectors. It’s not the same thing.
Watching ‘Mahabharat’ and ‘Mahakali’ on screen after so long really got me nostalgic! It was honestly wonderful and an emotional moment to relive those memories from both the shows I have been part of while watching their very first episodes all over again.
I’m definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.
My music is nostalgic. The early Neil Sedaka songs are always catchy and very singable.
I’m a deeply romantic person, nostalgic to a fault.
Suddenly, we are putting ourselves as the next dinosaurs. It’s rather dark; we have narrowed our dreams. It is time to restore our visions. And so it’s not a nostalgic idea; it is based with this unconscious need to restore a kind of dynamic for tomorrow.
