Novelty Quotes · Page 7

The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.

— Adam Grant

“The pleasure of novelty is by its very nature more subject than any other to the laws of diminishing returns.”

— C.S. Lewis

The value of kitsch exists in its novelty and in its connotations to more legitimate counterparts.

— Carrie Brownstein

Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.

— Angela Duckworth

We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.

— Mikhail Lermontov

Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.

— John Roberts

Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

— Irving Thalberg

“True novelty is that which does not grow old, despite the passage of time.”

— Muriel Barbery

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late…

— Margaret Laurence

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

— Anonymous

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former…

— Samuel Johnson

A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of…

— Helen Rowland

Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of…

— Richard Leakey

Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have…

— Garry Kasparov

For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for…

— Thomas Huxley

Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir…

— Gary Krist

A lot of guys get slammed pretty hard. I do think there's a tendency with women performers to just sort of write…

— Nina Gordon

You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your…

— Terence McKenna

This is precisely the reason for the dissatisfaction of some, who end up sad - sad priests - in some sense becoming…

— Pope Francis

Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short…

— Joshua Foer

In a few hours, I’m going to be banished to the surface, my belongings raffled off as novelty items and my living…

— Kim Harrison

I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life... I go…

— Willy Ronis

The biggest novelty of 2013 will be new leadership in China. Very little is known about the views of the new leaders…

— David Miliband

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Time limits tend to turn everything predictable and mundane into a novelty.”

— Rhian J. Martin

“When you're young, everything carries a twin charge of novelty and infinite possibility”

— Rosie Thomas

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

— Denis Diderot

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

— Emile M. Cioran

“Animals like novelty if they can choose to investigate it; they fear novelty if you shove it in their faces.”

— Temple Grandin

We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.

— Pliny the Elder

Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!

— Edmar Mednis

The religion of the corporate world is novelty. What is new is always right.

— Corinne Maier

There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself.

— Ben H. Winters

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

— Iris Murdoch

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

— Anthony Burgess

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

— William James

I love novelty workout pants. It means my workout kit is really bright and vibrant and out there.

— Poppy Delevingne

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

— Thomas Kuhn