Quotes About Sentimental

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.

Estar enamorado es como pisar la Luna. Te crees que eres el primero, pero en 1969 por allí ya se paseó un tal Neil Armstrong. ¿Y qué más da? Cada cual tiene su luna. Cada cual es dueño de su propio universo sentimental. Por eso, el amor es único. No se puede vivir con él, porque te ahoga, pero es imposible vivir sin él, porque te mata.

La rebelión sentimental de las masas, el odio a los mejores, la escasez de éstos: he ahí la razón verdadera del gran fracaso hispánico

It's as though the inhabitants of the cities were outdistanced by the wisdom and the aspirations of the cities themselves. Things have a better feeling for the future than people do. People feel historically, i.e. retrospectively. Walls, streets, wires, chimneys feel prospectively. People get in the way of progress. They hang sentimental weights on the winged feet of time.

I'm a very romantic person.

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

I love being sentimental and remembering things. I literally am a sentimentalist.

Most of my rings are not expensive at all; they're just things that remind me of people that gave 'em to me. And they all have their own stories, their own meanings.

I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.

'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.

A lot of people say 'Boo'd Up' reminds them of '90s R&B. It has that feeling, which is why I think people take to the song so much.

I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.

I save her marked-up manuscripts as an unluckier husband might save love letters.

I think of myself as a softy. I think the 87th Precinct novels are very sentimental, and the cops are idealistic guys.

I'm incredibly cheesy. I'm all about happy endings and all of that.

It is as futile and dangerous to aim at making of society one large family, as sentimental socialism seeks to do, as to aim at making of it one large team, as positivist socialism seeks to do.

Historians of the sentimental school have sometimes regretted that royalty became absolute, while at the same time rejoicing that it installed plebeians in office. They deceive themselves. Royalty exalted plebeians just because it aimed at becoming absolute; it became absolute because it had exalted plebeians.

I'm not what you might call sexy, but I'm romantic. Let's put it that way.

When did "sentimental" become a pejorative barb? I do not at all share the notion that a piece of music, or a poem, or a film that bypasses the brain and aims straight for the heart . . . should automatically be heaped with scorn. I think it is symptomatic of a sad and dangerous impoverishment of spirit.

I'll be seeing you in all the old familiar places that this heart of mine embraces all day through.

I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!

As a reader, when the writer gets sentimental, you drift, because there's something fishy going on there. You recognize a moment that's largely about the writer and the writer's own need to believe in something that might not in fact exist. As a reader, you think, 'Where did the story go? Where did the person I'm reading about go?'

Though a fine writer, Scott Spencer will forever be associated with a cheesy, sentimental film starring the vapid box-office draw Brooke Shields.

Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.