Best Novelty Proverbs
271 Novelty quotes by 227 unique authors
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In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
— Alanis Morissette
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A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.
— Edward Norton
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The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance…
— Jean Piaget
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Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.
— John Polkinghorne
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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when…
— Marcel Proust
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
— Carl Rogers
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America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
— Will Rogers
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Being a novelty had its advantages.
— Jessica Savitch
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Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard to marshal, the…
— James Wolcott
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Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.
— Helen Fisher
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Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing…
— Tony Kushner
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I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in that 'the flames…
— Dave Barry
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We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
— Mikhail Lermontov
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There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord;…
— Dorothy Parker
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They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when…
— James M. Barrie
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There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.
— Carlos Fuentes
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The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion…
— Michael Pollan
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Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is…
— Steven Pinker
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Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one may to exclude…
— C.S. Lewis
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Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon…
— Francis Bacon
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what has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.
— Confucius
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Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength…
— Thomas Hardy
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