On average, the higher the novelty score a film had, the better it did at the box office. But only up to… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful… — Andre Maurois 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
“Emma was just like any other mistress; and the charm of novelty, falling down slowly like a dress, exposed only the eternal… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“As the unexpected becomes ordinary, the spotlight shifts once again to land where your brain thinks it will get more informational bang… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the adjacent possible. We didnt stay in the caves. We didnt stay on the… — Jason Silva 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
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 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
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
In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
“A bit o' bread's what I like from one year's end to the other; but men's stomachs are made so comical, they… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires… — James Buchan 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
“An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously… — William James 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
“Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong.” — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be either the cre'me de la cre'me or a martyr. I'd rather be a novelty, especially in a… — Joseph Brodsky 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
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
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
“Youth is marked by a breathtaking novelty that diminishes with each year of age - until life becomes a delusive struggle to… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in… — Alfred North Whitehead 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 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)
![“Exotic novelty. My statement to [people] is always, well, set this picture in your home town, is it still an interesting picture? Or is it just exotic? Would I care about this same picture minus its exoticism?” quote by Sam Abell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f18/sam-abell-7768_care_exotic-novelty-my-statement-to-people-is_1058392.jpg)
