Sentimental Value Quotes

• My wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn't just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure.

  Bill Bailey

  Beautiful, Guitar, Vintage

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Romantic, Thinking, Romance

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.231, e-artnow

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• What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.

  Jean Gebser

  Condescension And, Facts, Sentimental

  Jean Gebser (1985). “The Ever-Present Origin”

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• Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Sentimental, Emotion

  Jean Cocteau (1926). “A call to order: written between the years 1918 and 1926 and including Cock and harlequin, Professional secrets, and other critical essays”, Haskell House Pub Ltd

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• I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.

  David Nicholls

  Believe, Book, Reading

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• Some of them [family names] have sentimental value for some reason or another, some of them just sound beautiful. Some of them are because of people that are meaningful to us in our lives. So it's hard to say which one we'll pick. Sometimes they say you have to see the child before you decide. So maybe when we see her we'll make a last-second decision.

  John Legend

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Children

  "John Legend Has His Dad Jokes at the Ready". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. January 14, 2016.

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• I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.

  Christopher Fry

  Travel, Men, Light

  The Lady's not for Burning (1949) act 1

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• 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.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Letting Go, Daughter, Nuts

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• Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

  Krist Novoselic

  Sentimental, Poet, Raised

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