Books Quote by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Great ideas are fish in a stream. Your pen/pencil is a spear. If you don't spear them, they'll swim on by. Be ready.

— James Scott

I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out…

— Paul Auster

Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the…

— Ogden Nash

I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash!...…

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.

— Paul Auster

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

— Wendell Berry

It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new…

— Samuel Johnson

Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.

— Daniel Kahneman

“In these days of faith-cures, and hypnotism, and telepathy, and subliminalities – why, the simple old world grows very confusing. But rarely, very rarely novel.”

— Walter de la Mare