Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Nostalgia Quotes
FitnessHistoryMusicNostalgiaPersonal Experience I was part of Jazzercise class. It was an aerobics routine accompanied by loud music, sounding quite awful to me. Jazzercise was popular in the '80s and '90s.
HardshipNostalgiaSimple Pleasures I used to live on one candy bar a day - it cost a nickel. I always remember the candy bar was called Payday. That was my payday. And that candy bar tasted so good, at night I would take one bite, and it was so beautiful.
AddictionNostalgiaVideo Games I bought one of the first Nintendo systems and brought that home, and we were playing 'Legend of Zelda' at the time, and it was addicting, and I was playing it for hours and hours and hours.
AnticipationChangeEmotionImpermanenceNostalgia The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
GenreHuman StoriesIntrospectionNostalgiaScience Fiction It seems like the reason that I miss the science fiction from the late '70s and '80s is that at that period, they really were doing interesting, introspective human stories that just happened to take place in science fiction settings.
ChildhoodDreamMemoryNostalgia I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
AppreciationBridgeNostalgiaTradition Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.
Essence of BeingIdentityInnocenceNostalgiaRebellion Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
CinemaCultural ImpactInnovationMemoryNostalgia I'm coming from a small town in Quebec where, at that time, there was no Internet, and the way to be in contact with movies were those American fan magazines like 'Fantastic Films' and 'Starlog,' and I still remember the shock, the impact of seeing the first frames, the first pictures coming out of 'Blade Runner.'
ArtAspirationCreativityNostalgia Some of the styles of dance in 'La La Land' I wish I had spent time on when I was a kid.
BelongingChildhoodHomelandNostalgia I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
ExpressionIdentityMusicNostalgiaStyle I always had a very specific way or style of singing that definitely felt like it was something from an older time.
HappinessJourneyLossMemoryNostalgia That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
ChoiceFilmLossNostalgiaTechnology I think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be - it's gone. It's going to be gone.
ArtCreativityMediumsNostalgiaTechnology Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.
ArtistryCreativityInnovationNostalgiaPhotography I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
ExperienceMemoryNostalgiaReflectionSignificance Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.
EmotionJoyMelancholyMemoryNostalgia When I think of the 1980s, the only color that comes to mind is a brown, yellowish color. I guess it's coming from my life experience, and it's melancholia and sadness and a bit of joy.
CinemaCultural CommentaryFilm CritiqueNostalgiaViolence in Media I just sort of feel like John Hughes movies are perfect, but they're missing violence. If they just had some violence, they'd be perfect.
AdventureExplorationFulfillmentNostalgiaTravel Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.
BelongingCommunityIdentityNostalgiaTerritoriality Growing up in Highbridge was real. Me and all my friends, we never really went to any other places in the Bronx but Highbridge. We always just stayed in Highbridge. It was like territory, to be honest, because Highbridge is like a town.
CompanionshipDreamsEveryday LifeImaginationNostalgia This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I'd call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I'd take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor's room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good.
AgingHubrisIronyNostalgiaSelf-awareness Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
ChildhoodCreativityNostalgiaPassionPerformance My love of performing goes way back. My mom got me on 'Romper Room' when I was five - it was my favorite show. But they couldn't control me. I would run up and smack the camera, and I'd jump around and do my little flips and routines. I wish I could get that tape now.
Cultural MixingFamily and HeritageMusic EvolutionMusic InfluenceNostalgia My pops and my mom started playing Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers and all these people, but at the same time, they always had Snoop on right behind it in the same mix.
CreativityHumorNostalgiaPop CultureSurrealism But I did 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.' They made a cereal out of it, so once you've had a cereal, it doesn't get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.
CreativityFutureInnovationNostalgia I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
CelebrationExperienceMusicNostalgiaYouth As kids, we were at concerts like Michael Jackson every weekend. My first concert was Earth, Wind and Fire.