Quotes by Sentimental I am not a sentimental person. Jack Kevorkian sentimentalpersons Sentimentality is unearned emotion. James Joyce sentimentalitysentimentalemotion There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental. James Purdy sentimentalitysentimental If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you. James Taylor sentimentalselfthinking The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more. Jarvis Cocker sentimentalsadnesssong What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value. Jean Gebser condescension-andsentimentalfacts Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. Jean Cocteau sentimentalemotionart No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary. Jean Rhys sentimentalpracticepast A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman. Henry David Thoreau sentimentalwomenperception Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success. Henry David Thoreau adventuroussentimentalnatural I guess I get a little sentimental, but I'm so used to moving on and making myself stronger where that's concerned, otherwise I would just be a wreck! Jeremy London sentimentalstrongermoving We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it. John Banville sentimentaltoughartist Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics. John Banville sentimentalmatterfiction I don't know if I like being the sentimental favorite. John Elway sentimentalknowssports There is definitely a nostalgia, and I am very sentimental, so I don't begrudge people for having sentimental feelings towards vinyl. John Vanderslice sentimentalfeelingspeople We agree that language functions in a certain way so that we can understand each other; but within that are built all sorts of sentimental codes, codes of authenticity, codes of certain kinds of emotion. John Yau sentimentalemotionway There's a vintage which comes with age and experience. Jon Bon Jovi vintagesentimentalbirthday The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea. Joseph Conrad sentimentallooksideas Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment. Judith Ellen Foster sentimentalpartyaction ...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental. Judith Guest sentimentalemotionalweight«12345678»
