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
It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I made novelty records generally, and novelties tend to wear off after a while. — Bernard Cribbins Copy Share Image
Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary. — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“For the beginner, novelty is anything that hasn’t been encountered before. For the expert, novelty is nuance.” — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores… — Wallace Stegner 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
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
Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“what has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one… — Anonymous 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
Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
Turns out that people who try new things, go new places, learn new skills, etc. are happier. This can be tough, because… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I didn't have time to lose it. I didn't have time to lie down in the corner shop and scream and beat… — Jenny Valentine Copy Share Image
New revelations regarding faith or morals ... have always been abhorred and challenged in the Church ... Hence, the Sovereign Pontiffs, the… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
No it was not the novelty, and it was not the danger and the adventure (although these had their charm). It was… — Pauline Gower Copy Share Image
“Grandmaster games are said to begin with novelty, which is the first move of the game that exits the book. It could… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Are we on the tail-end of a generation that is enamored with the novelty of these devices and will younger people coming… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony. — Ilyas Kassam Copy Share Image
“They are curious, embracing novelty, protean in behavior as well as in body” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch. — Anthony Marais Copy Share Image
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
