Alan Hansen Quotes

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.

Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.

When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.

I don't want to be one of those people saying, 'Remember when things were better?'

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.

I don't do nostalgia. The phrase 'the good old days' never passes my lips.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

The good old days are now.

The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure.

Hollywood must have been terrific once.

My children and their generation are not aware of the stardom I had enjoyed during my younger days.

I hate hype.

I am highly critical of myself. I am never satisfied with my work.

I think people like to have something to have a moan about.

Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

Margaret Weylin complained because she couldn't find anything to complain about.

I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

If there were nothing you'd still be complaining!

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

I don't appreciate many of the things that are said on social media.

Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.