Quotes About Sentiment

Though it was composed of shortening, corn syrup, colourings and other unwholesome ingredients, with a shelf-life so long it became the punchline of many jokes, for many the Twinkie was the taste of childhood. It was Proust's madeleine for the junk-food generation.

People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

I had a slight feeling of babysitting as we walked soberly along together using all our old phrases, making all our old jokes, not quite feeling all our old fondness.

The deepening slump was evident not only in government statistics but also in what we were hearing from business and community leaders around the country.

There was also substantial sentiment at the meeting in favor of holding our fire until we had a better sense of how the Lehman situation would play out.

so I wasn't particularly happy about the comments.

commentary focused on the unfairness of bailing out Wall Street (a sentiment with which I agreed) rather than on what would have happened had we not acted.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.

I was never binary remain or leave. I was very much of the sentiment, and still am, that it was about remain, reform and review. The U.K. actually has a very powerful place in Europe.

When I like something, I wear it into the ground, then really regret it.

I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.

There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.

I get homesick.

We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it.

I am a hopeless romantic.

I used to buy things for every hotel room or every place I lived in to make it feel like home.

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

I am a huge romantic at heart.

I'm a huge fan of romance as a concept.

The actual stuff my family owned, those boxes under my stairs, I can't quite bear to look at. I like other people's things better. They come with other people's history.

I jammed a floppy blue teddy bear under my head, then felt guilty and returned him to the foot of the bed. One should have allegiance to one's childhood things.

No one saves an e-mail, because it's so inherently impersonal. I worry about posterity in general. All the great love letters – from Simone de Beauvoir to Sartre, from Samuel Clemens to his wife, Olivia – I don't know, I always think about what will be lost—

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.