Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally. — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life. — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
“Let hearts marvel, let minds be amazed, and let limbs tremble at the novelty of it!” — Scott G. Bruce Copy Share Image
I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge… — David Hobson Copy Share Image
If one had to single out the most revolutionary novelty furnished by Qumran, its contribution to our understanding of the genesis of… — Geza Vermes Copy Share Image
sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need… — Arin Paul Copy Share Image
Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
We have a disturbing cultural appetite for novelty, and it seems to me wrong each new laureate should dislodge the ideas of… — Louise Gluck Copy Share Image
“And even when the apparatus exists, novelty ordinarily emerges only for the man who, knowing with precision what he should expect, is… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February… Spring is too far away to… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't… — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Other people--grandparents, sisters and brothers, the mother's best friend, the next-door neighbor--get to be familiar to the baby. If the mother communicates… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“All European writers are ‘slaves of their baptism,’ if I may paraphrase Rimbaud; like it or not, their writing carries baggage from… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“And we were in our thirties. Well into the Age of Boredom, when nothing is new. Now, I’m not being self-pitying; it’s… — Phoef Sutton Copy Share Image
“So it was that the Red Tower put into production its new, more terrible and perplexing, line of unique novelty items. Among… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Women hock their jewels and their husbands' insurance policies to acquire an unaccustomed shade in hair or crêpe de chine. Why then… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
