Sentimental Quotes - Page 2

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

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.

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

If you really think back to the great writers, there's a lot of happiness in Tolstoy; there's a lot of love, there's childbirth, and there's dances. And likewise in Shakespeare and even Cervantes, there's a lot of celebrations of the positive manifestations of life. Technically, I found it harder to do, so that's kind of a good late-life challenge - without getting sentimental or chirpy.

The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In the moment, you have to pee, your arm itches, or what people are saying strikes you as melodramatic or sentimental, and it's hard not to smirk. You have a sense of what this type of situation should be like - for one thing, all-consuming - and this isn't it. But then you look back, and it was that; it did happen.

Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage.

I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.

I'm all sentimental. I've probably been ruined by romantic movies, but I really do believe in love. I've experienced it, I've had it, so I know it's real.

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.

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

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

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

A good nude photograph can be erotic, but certainly not sentimental or pornographic.

I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the ’90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.

I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

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

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.

There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.

It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.

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.