#nos

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ↗

— Florence King

#disjointed #ephemeral #memories #nostalgia #true

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic. ↗

— Hu Shih

#confucius #humanist

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course. ↗

— Colin Hay

#coast #course #drums #father #guitars

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#ends #fist #man #nose #other

I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws. ↗

— Laura Lippman

#baltimore #being #being honest #beloved #better

Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound. ↗

— Alicia Witt

#better #get #grow #into #more

The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money. ↗

— Rick Wright

#big #control #else #everything #fact

I'm gonna do between 75 and 100 dates. A lot of it will be in Laughlin, Nevada; I'll be there for two weeks. And I'll work some casinos here and there, and the fair dates. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#casinos #dates #fair #gonna #here

We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past. The Last Generation ↗

— James Elroy Flecker

#literature #nostalgia #age

Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#humor #irony #medieval #middle-ages #nostalgia