#sentimental

I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#because #bit #child #drew #ever

The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#disney #exist #get #kind #know

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#any #going #how #i #me

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality. ↗

— Marc Webb

#ferment #into #sentimentality

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. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#another #argue #bell #both #clock

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#i #i think #into #performances #possible

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

— Michael Haneke

#i #into #involved #jokes #keep

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

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love. ↗

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#another #believe #dread #fear #i

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