Novelty Quotes

271 quotes by 229 authors

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new… — Hannah Arendt
Putting on weight is easy all the way through. But after the first couple of weeks, the novelty wears off very quickly, and your body… — Christian Bale
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. — Simone de Beauvoir
An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties. — Pope Benedict XVI
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty. — Jean de la Bruyere
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. — Anthony Burgess
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. — Thomas Carlyle
I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect. — Nick Cave
I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them. — Dick Clark
Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to be successful, it… — Stanley Morison
Let's forget the novelties. If we prevail in prayer, God will do only what he can do. How he does things, when he does them,… — Jim Cymbala
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster… — Lewis Mumford
Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful. — Benjamin Disraeli
I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for… — David Hobson
We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things. — Mark Twain
For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has… — Thomas Huxley
Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them… — William Hazlitt
We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us. — W. Somerset Maugham
Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. — Samuel Johnson
The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops. Emergence results in… — Fritjof Capra

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