When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. Read Summary
Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way. Read Summary
What I want back is what I was. Read Summary
I remember that as I was writing a poem on 'Snow' when I was eight, I said aloud, 'I wish I could have the ability to write down the feelings I have now when I am little, because when I grow up, I will know how to write, but I will have forgotten what being little feels like.' Read Summary
Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories. Read Summary
You've got to always go back in time if you want to move forward. Read Summary
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. Read Summary
The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever. Read Summary
A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly. Read Summary
It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist. Read Summary
With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children. Read Summary
My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston. Read Summary
I used to be a hot-tar roofer. Yeah, I remember that... day. Read Summary
I always cling to things that remind me of being a kid again. Read Summary
I always have felt that I was six years old. Read Summary
I'm sad to see celluloid go, there's no doubt. But, you know, nitrate went, by the way, in 1971. If you ever saw a nitrate print of a silent film and then saw an acetate print, you'd see a big difference, but nobody remembers anymore. The acetate print is what we have. Maybe. Now it's digital. Read Summary
Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past. Read Summary
I look at other people's lives, and some people feel like they're too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, 'cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn't have. So I still get them. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. Read Summary