“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
“Novelty. Security. Novelty wouldn't be a bad title. It had the grandness of abstraction, alerting the reader that large and thoughtful things… — John Crowley 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
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
“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
We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I own a lot of novelty knitwear and I think some of it's quite fun. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty. — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
“We annihilate convention in order to experience the truth of otherness.” — Carolyn Chun Copy Share Image
Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life... I go… — Willy Ronis Copy Share Image
The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We live of novelty in science, so whenever you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that this cannot be… — Heinrich Rohrer Copy Share Image
Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
One picture and one win cannot right a million wrongs. It's a step in the right direction.We have to get to a… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Remember that introverts react not only to new people, but also to new places and events. So don’t mistake a child’s caution… — Susan Cain 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
Complexity is looking at interacting elements and asking how they form patterns and how the patterns unfold. It's important to point out… — W. Brian Arthur Copy Share Image
Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony. — Ilyas Kassam Copy Share Image
“God may not give that instant dollar bill your seeking, but it's in the little change He brings, that will add to… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary. — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
I made novelty records generally, and novelties tend to wear off after a while. — Bernard Cribbins Copy Share Image
What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image