Quotes About Sentimental

Thank you for the dear past.

Give me homesickness. Flash. Give me nostalgic childhood yearnings. Flash.

He stopped watching the movie a few years later when he realized he didn't watch it because it was sort of corny, or they got the facts wrong, or it marked how far he had come, but because watching it made him sad, and a nutjob part of him sought out that sadness.

The only true way to expand your world is to inhabit an otherness beyond ourselves. There is one simple word for this: empathy. Don't let them fool you. Empathy is violent. Empathy is tough. Empathy can rip you open. Once you go there, you can be changed. Get ready: they will label you sentimental. But the truth is that the cynics are the sentimental ones.

Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.

I am sentimental,' she said. 'I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.

Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.

His brown eyes would roam around the various sentimental and artistic bric-a-brac present, and his own banal toiles (the conventionally primitive eyes, sliced guitars, blue nipples and geometrical designs of the day), and with a vague gesture toward a painted wooden bowl or veined vase, he would say Prenez donc une des ces poires. La bonne dame d'en face m'en offre plus que je n'en peux savourer. Or: Mississe Taille Lore vient de me donner ces dahlias, belles fleurs que j'exècre.

Dobbiamo distinguere tra sentimentale e sensibile. Un sentimentale può essere, nelle ore libere, un autentico bruto.

Why not the Victorians and their sentimental grief-wreaths woven from a loved one's hair?

This cookbook, Lydia knew, was her mother's favorite book, and she leafed through it with the adoration of a devotee touching a Bible.

It's all very true! It's a weakness to be so affectionate, but I can't help it.

The cricket is a small, black, ambulatory noise surrounded by a sentimental aura. On occasion it lives in the open fields, but its favorite habitat is behind a couch or under a bookcase in a room where somebody is trying to read.

The things you loved as a boy, you want them around you when you're an old man. The Marvins, Black River, Dreamgarden.

didn't know how I could bare to part with them, seeing them clean.

So a new element darkled in their already darkling mood: a somber, deep-rooted bitterness which would grow and grow until it would make of them—those who survived—the tough, mean, totally cynical infantry fighters which their leaders fondly on sentimental grounds already believed they were, and which all of them, everybody, hated the Japanese for being.

One of my favourite items is a very old jacket - it was my mum's uniform from when she was working 15 or 20 years ago.

Strangely enough, my favorite airport is Logan Airport in Boston - but largely for sentimental reasons. My first real summer job was working as a journeyman for the airport's resident maintenance crew - a small army of union electricians, plumbers, and carpenters.

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

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.

I think jewelry is beautiful on all women and I think it's sentimental - and Disney is sentimental. It's subtle and it's low-key and it's just a sweet reminder of sweetness.

Men are less sentimental than women. No man has ever seen the movie THE WAY WE WERE twice, voluntarily.

In matters of state, one has to be full of sentiments, but one can never be sentimental.