Sentimental Quotes

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.

I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.

I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems which are sentimental.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

I like kind of varied songs, not just the same song all the time. And I thought things like "Too Sentimental" is a different thing for us, but it works and we love the way they all came out. There's definitely varied songs on there.

In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level.

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

I'm not terribly sentimental.

I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.

What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

On the set I make jokes I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light.

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental.

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.

I'm a sentimental guy.

I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.

I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.

I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.