From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.” — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
A neglect of one's sentimental education early in life could bear the most unfortunate fruit. — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person. — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
The things I tend to do best are the things that are the most overtly emotional, whether it's sentimental or whether it's… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“Sentiment has never been unpopular except with a few sick persons who are made sicker by the sight of a child, a… — Oscar Hammerstein II Copy Share Image
The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a… — Nancy Sinatra Copy Share Image
Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
One that we can admire aesthetically and participate viscerally in. So the goal here, and we've had some early, small screenings, what… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share Image
“You angel, you have written. [...] Please, in all this muddle of life, continue to be a bright and constant star. Just… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element "Past" must be retained to sponge up and absorb… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
There are dangers in sentimentalizing nature. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect. It is no accident that… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless… — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
“The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...Not yet dry behind the ears, not old enough to buy a beer, but old enough to die for his country. He… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
I hope that I state your case fairly: One of my great fears is misrepresenting you, even to myself, now that you… — Michael Arditti Copy Share Image
Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Yeah, I'd say there's probably about a couple of hundred people I admire - but that has nothing to do with what… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I'm sentimental about Jesus on the cross. Jesus was a Jew, and also I believe he was a catalyst, and I think… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of the heart,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image