If I want to do song and dance, I will and I would like to but I don't want to do it… — Abhay Deol Copy Share Image
This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say… — Terence McKenna 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
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
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
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
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
“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
I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it… — Larry Hagman Copy Share Image
“Do you know novelty can not only keep us engaged, but also serve as a source of motivation? When we are exposed… — Jennifer April Copy Share Image
He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Putting on weight is easy all the way through. But after the first couple of weeks, the novelty wears off very quickly,… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't… — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it… — Thomas Hardy 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
“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
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
I'd say that the whole 'sitting on the Iron Throne' experience is intended to be a novelty for people who don't have… — John Bradley-West Copy Share Image
The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species,… — Ernst Mayr 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
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and… — Walter Lippmann 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“There was a change in both of us. We had lost a sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our… — Evelyn Waugh 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
“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
“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
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
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
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my… — Nicolaus Copernicus 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
I'm a creature of routine, and I hate feeling incompetent, so I avoided novelty and challenge. Making an effort to push myself… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image