148 quotes found
“I miss that world from the safe distance of memory.”
“There is no cause for nostalgia save the good and life-enhancing nostalgia for the present.”
“That was the danger of nostalgia, Drizzt realized. One often remembered the good of the past while forgetting the troubles.”
“Nostalgia is best cured via horse whipping.”
“Peter is suffering from an attack of nostalgia, she knows the symptoms. She mustn't join in otherwise she'll be swept away too, drowning in a quicksand of the past.”
“Nostalgia for the 20th century brain helps nobody.”
“It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past.”
“Long gone was the cheery welcome of the seaside hotelier, replaced by a weary nostalgia for the good old days.”
“Which one of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?”
“Apocalyptic saucer cults have started to spring up all over America. One small group, which has been receiving messages from outer space via Lake City housewife Mrs. Marian Keech, becomes the subje...”
“Rocket Fever Grips Nation's Teenagers' cheers on enthusiastic newsreel, reflecting the nation's sudden reversal in attitude following the successful launch of Explorer-I into Earth orbit. Rather th...”
“Whether the Eisenhower administration has underestimated the American people's interest in space exploration or Truman never full appreciated MacArthur, the Soviet Union's Sputnik program has creat...”
“The existence of flying saucers is unlikely to be verified by an accumulation of facts and figures, dates and times, which, if anything, tend to dull and distract the creative intelligence, obscuri...”
“The public's abiding fascination with flaying saucers, C.G. Jung suggests, 'may be a spontaneous reaction of the subconscious to fear of the apparently insoluble political situation in the world th...”
“Reported sightings of UFOs are tailing off. With public interest declining and subscriptions dwindling, NICAP and APRO start to compete with each other over membership. The open-minded middle groun...”
“If parents start to fear that monsters may have been let loose in their children's bedrooms, it may be because their children are the monsters. Consider what kind of world they are growing up in. I...”
“We will never understand our world until we have come to terms with its future: it is the age in which we live. The Cold War depended upon internal division in order to maintain itself. Behind its ...”
“These were the kids who would take LSD for recreational purposes, who relied upon tape recorders to supply the weird studio effects their music required and who could repeat the cosmic wisdom of th...”
“I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.”
“I slept that night in the room I used to have when I was a little boy, with the summer wind blowing in at the windows, bringing the smell of the ripe fields. I lay awake and watched the moonlight s...”
