It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We can understand first of all that what is happening in the world of becoming, the world we all experience as beings,… — Terence McKenna 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
The more you're drowning in familiarity, the better the fun is. It requires less novelty to produce even more gratification. And it's… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 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
In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation. — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgement of his own works. On that which has cost him much labour he sets a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short… — Joshua Foer 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
Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
When I made 'Sleepwalk with Me,' many people asked me if was a novelty thing, a one-off. But this is the goal,… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
No manufacturer, from General Motors to the Little Lulu Novelty Company, would think of putting a product on the market without benefit… — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty. [Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
No man's thoughts are new, but the style of their expression is the never-failing novelty which cheers and refreshes men. If we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty. — Chris Robinson Copy Share Image
The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human organization… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
