Novelty Quotes · Page 5

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Charles Stross

“society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.”

— John le Carré

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

— Thomas Kuhn

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

— George Eliot

I love novelty workout pants. It means my workout kit is really bright and vibrant and out there.

— Poppy Delevingne

“We should not forego innovation, but reject novelty as the sole aim.”

— Carma Gorman

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

On average, the higher the novelty score a film had, the better it did at the box office. But only up to…

— Hannah Fry

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

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

When you're a kid, you think 'Oh, it's so great. I'm going to go to Hollywood. I'm going to go to Broadway.'…

— Reggie Lee

Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends…

— Edmund Burke

All I'm saying is that I understand if the novelty's worn off and you want to get off the carousel ride now…

— Jennifer Estep

The commercial flight thing, it just gets a little weird when you're standing in line and suddenly you're not just a guy…

— Johnny Depp

For too long, reporters for the big media outlets have been fixated on novelty, always moving too quickly onto the next big…

— Arianna Huffington

The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.…

— Fritjof Capra

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Night and day a picture of the showcase of the Lame Novelty Company and its gambling content would seem to appear before…

— John Scarne

Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the adjacent possible. We didnt stay in the caves. We didnt stay on the…

— Jason Silva

Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and…

— Plutarch

Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but…

— Dorothy Parker

Can you imagine in 2016 there is a discussion about #OscarsSoWhite? Is it a novelty we've just discovered that the whole production…

— Raoul Peck

The novelty business is astounding. We can't keep up with it.

— William Hanna

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

— Homer

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

— Edward Young

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!

— Edmar Mednis

“When you're young, everything carries a twin charge of novelty and infinite possibility”

— Rosie Thomas

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

— Denis Diderot

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

— Emile M. Cioran

We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.

— Pliny the Elder

“Time limits tend to turn everything predictable and mundane into a novelty.”

— Rhian J. Martin

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

— William James

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

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

— Corinne Maier

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

— Ben H. Winters

“And perhaps I understood it all wrong, but I understood it and that was the novelty.”

— Samuel Beckett

In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

— Kenneth E. Boulding