#sentimental

On the set I make jokes I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light. ↗

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#away #being #between #difference #driver

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#folly #injustice #just #makes #neither

I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#i #sentimental #think #try

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#romance #romantic #sentimentality #love

There are some things that don't change much. I find the smell of a dish, or the way a certain spice is crushed, or just a quick look at the way something has been put on a plate, can pull me back to another place and time. I love those memories that seem so far away, yet you can hold them and carry them with you, even forget them, and then, with a single taste or hint or a smell, be chaperoned back to a beautiful moment. ↗

— Tessa Kiros

#falling-cloudberries #foodie #sentimental #beauty

The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#challenges #enjoys #far #his #loves

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#rubs #sentiment #sentimentality #way #wrong

I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems which are sentimental. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#hesitation #i #poems #saying #sentimental

I am not a sentimental person. ↗