Sentimental Quotes
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The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
Gary Clark Jr.
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Oh any sentimental person can cry at night, but when you begin to cry in the morning - to lie awake and cry in the morning-.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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I am not a sentimental person.
Jack Kevorkian
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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.
Virginia Woolf
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The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.
Freya Stark
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The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.
Octavio Paz
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Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.
Vivienne Westwood
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Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.
William Hamilton Maxwell
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I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.
Andrew Motion
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For sentimental reasons, she wanted the front license plate and the steering wheel to make a clock with.
Paul Williams The Temptations
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The grey skies always make my heart sentimental.
Joan Sebastian
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I am not a sentimental or superstitious person, so I don't have any pre-performance rituals. I am a very practical woman. After a performance I am always hopeful that I will lure someone home for a ritual of a more personal nature.
Vaginal Davis
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What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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I’m sentimental, but there’s nothing wrong with that.
Ornella Muti
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I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.
Ava Gardner
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One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant.
Georgina Chapman
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She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free.
Sarah Waters
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There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion.
William Ernest Henley
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My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.
Ernest Hemingway
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I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a rainy night? A hammock in a freshly mown backyard? A verandah overlooking the summer sea? Good choices, every one. But I have no doubt that they are all merely displacements, sentimental attempts to replicate the warmth and snugness of my mother's lap.
Michael Dirda
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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.
Karl Lagerfeld
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There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.
Jon Bon Jovi
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In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture, touchstones that are almost immediately nostalgic and sentimental no matter how old you are or what part of the country you are from.
Homaro Cantu