Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Carl Jung

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

David Hume

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Alfred Hershey

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

Anthony Hopkins

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Cornelia Funke

Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.

Ann Patchett

I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.

Krist Novoselic

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

Irving Babbitt

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

Andy Garcia

When I met him, he seemed to me a humble man who spoke through his music, and that's the way he's always been, ... He dedicated his life to his music and his art, which transcends cultures and even age.

Tony Hawk

I was a lot more cultured than the other kids in my high school. Because I traveled, I understood different cultures and had a more worldly view. Most of the people I went to high school with had never been outside of California.

Tracy McMillan

We have this false idea in our culture that if you haven't made it by 30, then you're never going to do anything interesting. My 40s have been the most incredible time of my life.

Brian Eno

Culture is everything you don't have to do.

Robert Galvan

Venezuela is serving as a model of respect for indigenous peoples and their right to culture, land and sovereignty.

Dave Douglas

OneBeat is one of the greatest initiatives in advancing the meeting of cultures worldwide.

Alan Watts

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

Alan Moore

All culture must have arisen from cult.

Alan Ball

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

China Mieville

I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.

Anushka Sharma

I'm paranoid about shopping. I get irritable. I find it tedious and taxing. People say shopping is retail therapy, but I need therapy after shopping.

Andy Grove

Only the paranoid survive.

John Green

If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.

Iain Banks

I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.

Howard Hughes

I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire.

Lou Gerstner

You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.

Roger Ebert

The Academy is paranoid about its image.

Sigmund Freud

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.