I used to go to some Harvard parties with my athlete friends, and they would introduce me as 'Winona, the Indian activist.'… — Winona LaDuke 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
“Time limits tend to turn everything predictable and mundane into a novelty.” — Rhian J. Martin Copy Share Image
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
I think phone cases will always be novelties, but there's always so many interesting phone cases I like phone cases and I… — Skrillex Copy Share Image
I would start off with a lively rag, then would come a ballad, followed by a comedy song and a novelty number,… — Sophie Tucker Copy Share Image
Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly… — Kenya Hara 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
People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
A man and a woman are new to one another throughout a life-time, in the rhythm of marriage that matches the rhythm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly...timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we… — William James Copy Share Image
