An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
The value of kitsch exists in its novelty and in its connotations to more legitimate counterparts. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“The pleasure of novelty is by its very nature more subject than any other to the laws of diminishing returns.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything. — John Roberts Copy Share Image
And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty. [Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin — Bill Watterson 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
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
At the other end of the spectrum, George Gideon Oliver King Rameses Osborne, the fourteen-year-old novelty Chancellor and future baronet of Ballentaylor… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors? — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Habituation is indeed a fact of human psychology. That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans. — Virginia Postrel 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
“when something breaks the cause-and-effect pattern we've come to expect — when we encounter something outside the norm — we suddenly become… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
“The only people who really think they have seen something new are those whose experience is limited or whose vision can't penetrate… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs… — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
Our prayers at this time are prompted by the fact that the Governor of Illinois today is signing into Illinois law the… — Thomas J. Paprocki Copy Share Image
We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes… — Thomas Carlyle 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
If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise,… — Terence McKenna 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
Film is more of novelty, because I've done so much theater over many years. I'm in love with making movies. Also, I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
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
Hopefully I never get hit with that stigma of being a novelty act. Since [my father] death in 1998 I've been doing… — Frank Sinatra, Jr Copy Share Image
Life purpose may be shifted from achieving a 'steady state' (an equilibrium between desires and plausibilities) to the excitement of running after… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide… — Ivor Novello 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
It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
While some artists hunt for more groundbreaking ideas, A Hawk and a Hacksaw finds novelty in tradition, proving that what's new depends… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Exotic novelty. My statement to [people] is always, well, set this picture in your home town, is it still an interesting picture?… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
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![“when something breaks the cause-and-effect pattern we've come to expect — when we encounter something outside the norm — we suddenly become aware of it again.[lxxii] Novelty sparks our interest, makes us pay attention, and — like a baby encountering a friendly dog for the first time — we seem to…” quote by Nir Eyal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/07e/nir-eyal-1258_first-time_when-something-breaks-the-cause-and-effe_454730.jpg)
![“Hopefully I never get hit with that stigma of being a novelty act. Since [my father] death in 1998 I've been doing a program called Sinatra Sings Sinatra.” quote by Frank Sinatra, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/418/frank-sinatra-jr-2-31186_father_hopefully-i-never-get-hit-with-that-stig_2052776.jpg)
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