I'm not going to get too sentimental, like those other sticker valentines, 'cause I don't know if you are loving some body.… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
The sentimental view of anything is apt to be ridiculous, but I feel that I have been unusually sensitive to the issue… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“I am not sentimental about kids. Little monsters, most of them, who don’t civilize until they are grown and sometimes not then.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Though a fine writer, Scott Spencer will forever be associated with a cheesy, sentimental film starring the vapid box-office draw Brooke Shields. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Do not think that your crying and complaints can force Jesus to become sentimental and then give Himself out so cheaply. — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
There is definitely a nostalgia, and I am very sentimental, so I don't begrudge people for having sentimental feelings towards vinyl. — John Vanderslice Copy Share Image
I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around. I get sentimental… — Nghi Lam Copy Share Image
Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
There was a guy called Carlos Thompson, who was I think Argentinian, and he was doing a series called 'Sentimental Agent'. That… — Diana Rigg Copy Share Image
While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Literature is an aspect of story and story is all that exists to make sense of reality. War is a story. Now… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The heart is… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“ABOUT SENTIMENTALITY IN LITERATURE: "Sentimental fiction is a kind of pablum: Excessive amounts can spoil the appetite for reality, or at least… — Alice Simpson Copy Share Image
I've gotta be honest, it is a little of a mystery to me. I consider myself very sentimental, very sensitive, but obviously… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
Mistaken regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human life tend to… — Madison Grant Copy Share Image
“My own kind. I'm not sure there's a name for us. I suspect we're born this way: our hearts screwed in tight,… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Well, I'm just a really sentimental person, and I just get leveled by things so easily, like from films, to personal interactions,… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it. — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it. — Grimes Copy Share Image
Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists. — Jack Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I get very sentimental, I get very nostalgic, and when I live in a place, I instantly put down way too many… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
On the set I make jokes I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way. — Gamal Abdel Nasser Copy Share Image
Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
Love is not a sentimental attachment to a human being; love is a mode of conduct that comes from the heart. — Ma Jaya Copy Share Image
I wanted to do music that was a little more sentimental, emotional, and serene - completely different from the party music I… — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
MEMORY'S SO TREACHEROUS. ONE MOMENT YOU'RE LOST IN A CARNIVAL OF DELIGHTS, WITH POIGNANT CHILDHOOD AROMAS , THE FLASHING NEON OF PUBERTY,… — Paresh Markandeya Copy Share Image
irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness. — Mary Astor Copy Share Image
