Throwback Quotes

Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that’s when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past.

A lot of it came from seeing how kids responded to the character. They would dress up and some would reenact the sketch in its entirety and it got us thinking about those Halloween specials we’d see on TV as a kid, and we just thought ‘David Pumpkins’ would work perfect for sort of a throwback nostalgic Halloween special.

Amazingly, I’ve been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I’ve been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.

The metamorphosis of people is so interesting. I guess that’s why everybody loves before and afters, throwback Thursdays, and all that kind of thing.

I’m trying to be a throwback player and only stick with one team.

I have tattooed on my hand the silver throwback mics from back in the day. My father used to have one of those when he’d lead people at the YMCA doing the cha-cha slide.

J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday.

Each time I think I’ve created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it.

To me, throwback means I’m a smart player. I know how to play the game. I’m very skilled. I do a lot of things that other people don’t do.

There’s reality shows and things like that and I think ‘Parenthood‘s kind of a throwback to what we used to have back in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. People want to see this again, and I feel like it’s just a solid, good show.

Midsomer’ is a throwback to the old detective tradition, in which everything happens in the head of one man. Everything depends on his intuition and experience.

The Meatbats are a throwback band.

I don’t think Ed Miliband has the courage of his convictions. He’s scared he’ll be painted by the rightwing press as a throwback to the time of the ‘big state.’

The great thing for me about ‘The Resurrection of Gavin Stone‘ is it’s a throwback to the old fashioned Hollywood movie that you can watch with your family, has a message, and is funny and entertaining. They didn’t call them faith-based movies; they just called them good movies.

In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the airport served only two carriers, Western and Bonanza. Passengers could catch regional flights to San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and that was about it.

Lauryn Hill‘s always been a hero of mine. And Bruno Mars, Janelle Monae and Adele, those are the current artists I would reference in terms of who‘s been able to do really amazing pop records with really cool, organic throwback elements of soul in there as well.

I enjoy watching Chris Matthews a lot. He reminds me of a throwback to the older school kind of pundits like Tim Russert.

The society in ‘The Handmaid‘s Tale‘ is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.

Maybe I was just born in the wrong era, man. I’m a bit of a throwback to the days of black and white movies. Those guys back then, they had a certain kind of directness about them. A lot of the screenplays, the plots were very simplistic – they gave rise to a type of anti-hero that maybe I suit better.

It’s difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn’t matter if you’re talking vampire movies or ‘Dawn of the Dead‘ or ‘The Thing’ or ‘Escape From New York.’ Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.

I’m tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.