I am sentimental,’ she said. ‘I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A lot of people hate heroes. I was criticized for portraying people who are brave, honest, loving, intelligent. That was called weak… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
We agree that language functions in a certain way so that we can understand each other; but within that are built all… — John Yau Copy Share Image
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Winnowing is more like a trip to the confessional...transparent & vulnerable without being sentimental. These songs have elements that are more like… — Bill Mallonee Copy Share Image
Today, I defined 'sentimental' to myself as a feeling about the idea of a feeling. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a softy. I think the 87th Precinct novels are very sentimental, and the cops are idealistic guys. — Evan Hunter 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
I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does. — Victoria Beckham Copy Share Image
Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression… — Helen Lynd Copy Share Image
I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Think not because you are now wed That all your courtship's at an end. — Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza 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 am not a very sentimental man; and the best sentiment I can think of is, that if you collect the signatures… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical,… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
When I see sentimental scenes, I get emotional and tears start flowing from my eyes. — Ali Copy Share Image
What we try to do with all of our albums, is live out our musical fantasies in the most honest fashion we… — Michael Hutchence Copy Share Image
I think it's doubly important, now that we see so many people failing. When the norm is an anti-hero, there's a serious… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
