Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality. — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Detachment, lack of sentimentality, originality, a lot of things that sound rather empty. I know what they mean. Let's say, "visual impact"… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
If spirituality is not religion or cynicism or sentimentality or narcissism, then what is it?... we can confidently say... that spirituality is… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity; it means honesty; it… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their… — Francis C Farley Copy Share Image
Human beings really are this virus upon the earth, and the earth's running a fever, you know? If you step away from… — Eef Barzelay Copy Share Image
“You don't want to think about it, but there's an ethical limit to what anyone should have to endure. You can't just… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“The pastoral Left, religious Right, and everywhere in between were afflicted by a resurgent sentimentality and desire for immediate gratification incompatible with… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning.… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I'm not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don't think you get a true picture of people without… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“The deceits which her spinster's sentimentality has practiced on her original good judgment are legendary and colossal; she has this way of… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
If you're striving for strong emotion and strong sentiment, and you're authentic with it and honest with it, then you're on the… — Lasse Hallstrom Copy Share Image
The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that… — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
“For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to… — Adrian Carton de Wiart Copy Share Image
“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion… — Anonymous 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
Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with… — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
In the reading and writing life, delight, for me, is where the mystery lies. Easy enough to figure out how scenes of… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart.… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and… — Benjamin Mkapa Copy Share Image
Larry Colton’s Ordinary Joes are just like us, yet they endure what we could never imagine, and are ennobled in ways they… — Ron Shelton Copy Share Image
Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Alexia had found pregnancy relatively manageable, up to a point. That point having been some three weeks ago, at which juncture her… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Time must not go on if you don't want it to. We have the complete freedom to live the way we wish,… — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
I believe that people want the scent of love, more than anything else. And I don't mean sentimentality, I don't mean mush.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of… — Bal Gangadhar Tilak Copy Share Image
Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I was not exploiting any real individual's story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
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