He thinks everything sentimental is tender, everything…

“He's like everybody else in television. And Hollywood. And Broadway. He thinks everything sentimental is tender, everything brutal is a slice of realism and…

— J D Salinger

[Hunt for the Wilderpeople] people seem to be just finding it hilarious in Sundance. I would think that judging on the feedback I get;…

— Sam Neill

I love being sentimental and remembering things. I literally am a sentimentalist.

— Noah Centineo

Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.

— Walker Percy

I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental.

— Gus Van Sant

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

— Anonymous

Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in…

— Ed Koch

It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is dealt with…

— Charles Baxter

Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how…

— Jess Walter

Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

— Fernando Pessoa

“Happiness is…tender puppy kisses on my nose...”

— Terri Squires

“It was funny, she was thinking, how something that had seemed sentimental and important, and even more - almost sacred - could turn into…

— Rona Jaffe

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

— Jon Bon Jovi

Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on…

— Sylvia Plath

The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.

— Andre Malraux