Novelty Quotes

Novelty Quote of the day

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.

I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

Far, far from the clergy be the love of novelty!

The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.

Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure.

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.

The new is not a fashion, it is a value.

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

All I'm saying is that I understand if the novelty's worn off and you want to get off the carousel ride now before it kills you.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.

Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

You always have to be very aware that the audience is extremely ruthless in its demand for newness, novelty and freshness.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

When you meet a new friend, the world has more light in it, doesn't it? Things become more spontaneous, and more full of laughing and freedom and novelty.

Chance is the only source of true novelty.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview.

We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.

I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.

The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.

What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly...timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.

Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of novelty

I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary entertainments.

I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.

Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.

Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is to be held tight to; and if novelty is profane, antiquity is sacred.

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.

Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!