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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story. [...] This is early days in… — Peter Bradshaw 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
“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
[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
That's how the Germans are… The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working… — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I have a little bit of a pet peeve about how the middle class is depicted in movies. I feel like they… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
I think, when I'm writing, I have a more clinical view than I do when I'm reading. I like pretending to be… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Some of them [family names] have sentimental value for some reason or another, some of them just sound beautiful. Some of them… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which… — Flannery O'Connor 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
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
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
“It was not a particularly good body, he’d be the first to admit, but one or two bits of it had sentimental… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For remember, my sentimental friend, a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved… — The Wizard Of Oz Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in science fiction, and I like new things. I've never been a really sentimental person. — Dave Davies Copy Share Image
“You're not sentimental?' 'No, I'm romantic-- a sentimental person thinks things will last-- a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“His being there was stirring up a lot of memories she'd have been happier to leave as sentimental sediment. Not that they… — Diana Killian Copy Share Image
“sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
That's what 'Sex Education' really nails - female solidarity without being too sentimental. — Aimee Lou Wood Copy Share Image
Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental. — Don Adams Copy Share Image
If You Become Too Sentimental It Is Hard To Lead A Life, And If You Become Too Practical It Is Hard To… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
I'm someone who is very sentimental and nostalgic and attached to the homes I lived in, and I think moving is a… — David Lowery 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