Novelty Quotes
271 quotes by 229 authors
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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
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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
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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
— Anthony Burgess
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
— Thomas Carlyle
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I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect.
— Nick Cave
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I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.
— Dick Clark
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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
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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
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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
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Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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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
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We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.
— Mark Twain
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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
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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
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We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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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
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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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