What novelty is worth the sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
“In these days of faith-cures, and hypnotism, and telepathy, and subliminalities – why, the simple old world grows very confusing. But rarely,… — Walter de la Mare Copy Share Image
I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge… — David Hobson Copy Share Image
If one had to single out the most revolutionary novelty furnished by Qumran, its contribution to our understanding of the genesis of… — Geza Vermes Copy Share Image
The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need… — Arin Paul Copy Share Image
sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
We have a disturbing cultural appetite for novelty, and it seems to me wrong each new laureate should dislodge the ideas of… — Louise Gluck Copy Share Image
“And even when the apparatus exists, novelty ordinarily emerges only for the man who, knowing with precision what he should expect, is… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Being up on something is a way of dismissing it. To espouse any point of view is a danger - it might… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy!… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“A new man is like a new toy. Fresh and interesting. Almost intriguing. It's like when you get a new car. Everything… — Jeanette Michelle Copy Share Image
There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. When sometimes I am reminded that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Our consumer-oriented economy wouldn't survive without economic growth. The whole mechanism depends on invention and insinuation of novelties, arousing new wants, seduction… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“We should not forego innovation, but reject novelty as the sole aim.” — Carma Gorman Copy Share Image
Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was… — Aya Cash Copy Share Image
To build and strengthen new connections, the brain needs the challenge of fresh and unusual stimuli. … There's a lot of evidence… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Novelty implies risk and therefore demands high margins, which does not fit with the retailer’s value proposition. And” — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
...their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That's only one thing… — William Gibson 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
A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time,… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a… — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty:… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. I am the first one to… — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
