Milos Forman Quotes

I love nostalgia.

The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.

I shall now confess to you that none of those three trout had to be beheaded, or folded double, to fit their casket. What was big was not the trout, but the chance. What was full was not my creel, but my memory.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

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 have great memories.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

I'm not particularly fond of the past, but I do ramble on about it quite a bit.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

Seeing a time period captured in film, you know, it does make you feel nostalgic.

I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.

Do you remember we were sitting there by the water?

I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim.

The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.

I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

In a funny way, I like the past, I'm a very nostalgic person.

Remembrance of things past.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.

What does it remember like?

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.

You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.