Fred Schneider Quotes

One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.

As far as I know, no tapes exist from my years at 'T.J.'s.' I wish they did.

I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

I'm trying to get to a deep future, but in order to get to a deep future, I had to think about the deep past.

I do enjoy thinking about the past.

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.

Remember the past - and await the future.

The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.

The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when we who live in the present touch them, they are suddenly stretched taut and then they propel us into the future.

It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.

I keep my scrapbooks in the car. When I come to a stoplight, I start looking through my past. Sometimes I wish the red lights were longer.

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

I am not nostalgic for the past.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

I love that moment of, 'Remember when?' I love to waft.

I want to make sure people are connected with the future as well as the past.