A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a… — Betty White Copy Share Image
I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice,… — Helen Thompson Woolley Copy Share Image
Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The soul's a sort of sentimental wife, That prays and whimpers of the higher life. — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Are you apathetic toward the saccharine goodness evangelized by sentimental, superstitious fanatics, but equally bored by the intellectuals who worship at the… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
I can see how some people get sentimental about how we used to do things in 'the good old days' but in… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
In matters of state, one has to be full of sentiments, but one can never be sentimental. — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist. — Anonymous 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
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only… — Jean Gebser Copy Share Image
A good nude photograph can be erotic, but certainly not sentimental or pornographic. — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
[London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. ...Think about it. There's escaping from the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image