Novelty Quotes

Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.

The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need to hype our films.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

I didn't want to be either the cre'me de la cre'me or a martyr. I'd rather be a novelty, especially in a democracy that doesn't understand the language I write in.

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true in all art.

Change, change,--we all covet change.

Human nature is fond of novelty.

As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side.

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me.

A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.

It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .

Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.

Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent.

There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself.

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

Novelties please less than they impress.

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

The religion of the corporate world is novelty. What is new is always right.

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.

Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.

Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

...their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.

What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood.

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.

Hopefully I never get hit with that stigma of being a novelty act. Since [my father] death in 1998 I've been doing a program called Sinatra Sings Sinatra.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty.

I'm a creature of routine, and I hate feeling incompetent, so I avoided novelty and challenge. Making an effort to push myself in that way has brought me surprising boost.

Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.

It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.

They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.

Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of being able to really do stuff hasn't worn off - I still feel like I'm making up for lost time.

True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.

Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was like a weird novelty act.

People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There is an insatiable appetite for affirmation.