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.
My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.
I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.
It may sound amazing to people today, but Rodgers and Hammerstein were considered by – how can I put it? – the sort of opinion-making tastemakers and everything to be ‘off the scale as sentimental.’
Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.
I was actually born in Baltimore! Although I moved away when I was quite young and consider Chicago to be my hometown, Baltimore is sentimental to me, and I still keep in touch with family friends I knew as a little girl.
We artists love to talk tough, but we’re just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.
‘Little Women’ has interesting gender connotations. There are generations of women who love the book. But there are a lot of men who think it’s sentimental, gooey stuff.
The blues is so expressive – nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It’s a nuance-filled thing.
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.
Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
For me, jewelry is a true investment. It’s sentimental and it’s meaningful.
You know you are grown sentimental when you start counting the cygnets on the duck pond in the park to be sure none has perished since you counted last.
I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
You get sentimental on the road. I’d see a horse with its foal and a tear would come to my eye.
I become so sentimental on planes: I could be watching ‘Bridesmaids’ and start crying.
My books are all fantastically sentimental.
I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We’re afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, ‘What a jerk!’ It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.
The Russians are a very sentimental people.
I’m sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby’s unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life.’ But Valentine’s Day leaves me cold.
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
A director must push his actors to the utmost limit to get everything possible out of each scene – without being corny or sentimental or going overboard.
The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.
I get very sentimental, I get very nostalgic, and when I live in a place, I instantly put down way too many roots.
I’m sentimental to a fault.
When I’m driving past the place I used to work, or when I’m driving past the comedy studio where I used to take photos in exchange for classes, or when I’m driving past the yoga studio I used to clean on the weekends – it’s not that far removed from me yet. I get very sentimental over things like that.
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.
I mean, I think I’m pretty sentimental.
I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle Seymour made, a brass grotesque he mounted on a marble base. And my grandfather’s shaving cup is there, used to store pencils and pens.
Sentimental is not bad, but it’s probably the most likely to go awry. It’s the hardest to do and not have it end up being ‘Forrest Gump’ or something. Maudlin – I just don’t want it to be maudlin.
I am not a sentimental person.
I’m a very sentimental guy; I’m a very nostalgic guy.
I think that in some cases, I’ve made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.
In film, it’s very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard sentimentality as emotion. It is not. Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue – but I would argue it nevertheless – that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music – both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing – is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
Part of me really wants to believe that hope is entirely available to all of us. We don’t have to embrace it. It would be sentimental and silly to say that we all need it, but it is absolutely available to all of us.
Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me… as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it’s one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you’re gay.
I don’t think it’s good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.
I think a lot of writing, or a lot of young writers, especially, hold themselves back unnecessarily because they’re so upset about the idea that they might be sentimental or so concerned about being criticized that way or even being that way that they just shy away from any strong expression or emotion.
I’m a real soft, sentimental guy who dreams up decapitations.
I always say that I don’t want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn’t be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.
I have a Keurig coffee maker, which is really kind of a luxury. It was given to me by an ex. I realized when I’m feeling sentimental, I’ll gently, tenderly press the button. Then when I remember he dumped me, I punch it.
I think probably I’m quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I’m very embarrassed by sentiment. I’m very embarrassed by corniness.
Some people would say again that my attitudes are cold and cerebral; I suppose if you’re thinking about American sentimental movies, I suppose they would be.
Some kind of clutter is difficult – letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers – but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I’m always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter.
I wanted to do music that was a little more sentimental, emotional, and serene – completely different from the party music I was doing.
I have a group of friends that I’m pretty sentimental about.
Whenever I come here to Ilocos, I get sentimental because I always remember that as a child, I would ride a bike with my father in Paoay near where they were shooting ‘Panday.’
I don’t have sentimental attachments to characters at all.
Well, I’m just a really sentimental person, and I just get leveled by things so easily, like from films, to personal interactions, to memories, to music.
In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.
There is a certain sentimental vibe in my home town of Manchester, which you would sort of expect.
I ain’t got a credit card, a mobile phone or a computer. Call me sentimental. I think that’s a whole world of trouble I ain’t got no business setting foot in. And you know what? It feels good.
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