Novelty Quotes · Page 6

Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty.

— Chris Robinson

I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.

— Bil Keane

If you can make something that looks new - novelty is exciting.

— Gaspar Noe

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

— Edward Norton

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

— Wendell Berry

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

— Mark Twain

For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.

— Ian Bogost

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.

— Daniel Kahneman

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

— W. Somerset Maugham

They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever…

— Anonymous

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

— Madeleine M. Kunin

“No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work…

— Greg Carlson

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

— Jill Lepore

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of…

— Derren Brown

I would start off with a lively rag, then would come a ballad, followed by a comedy song and a novelty number,…

— Sophie Tucker

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

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

— Fritjof Capra

The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

One picture and one win cannot right a million wrongs. It's a step in the right direction.We have to get to a…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

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

— Arianna Huffington

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

— John Scarne

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

Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.

— Terence McKenna

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Let hearts marvel, let minds be amazed, and let limbs tremble at the novelty of it!”

— Scott G. Bruce

And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty. [Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.]

— Ovid

I own a lot of novelty knitwear and I think some of it's quite fun.

— Gyles Brandreth

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.

— Will Rogers

“There’s nothing new. The novelty lies in being yourself.”

— Haresh Sippy

I wasnt interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.

— Tom Baker

Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.

— Tim Jackson

Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.

— Fernando Pessoa

I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin

— Bill Watterson

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

— Robert Bresson

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

— Kenneth E. Boulding

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

— Samuel Beckett

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty.

— George Leonard