Novelty Quote by John Wyndham Download Open image ““novelty is a wonderfully short-lived thing.”” — John Wyndham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Novelty
“True novelty is that which does not grow old, despite the passage of time.” — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“For the beginner, novelty is anything that hasn’t been encountered before. For the expert, novelty is nuance.” — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“Good or bad, it’s the little surprises that keep life interesting.” — Tadahiko Nagao Copy Share Image
“People, of course, like to think that they are special -- that's exciting. It's disappointing to discover otherwise.” — J. Richard Gott III Copy Share Image
“I love to explore new and strange things in detail. This habit reduces element of surprises in my life.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“My tendency to get kind of bored quickly and not just accepting the monotony of the status quo, the continual monotony of the single… — Laird Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Life is nothing short of a phenomenon. In every sense life is mysterious and unfathomable.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“It was simply one of those things that remain as an “exceptional but interesting” episode in life.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“ We derive our greatest pleasures not from novelty but from familiarity.” — Raymond Radiguet Copy Share Image
I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“But he survived, that radio announcer. His ship and five others out of the flotilla of ten came through, a bit radioactive, but otherwise… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“You will have experienced, perhaps, that feeling of being relieved of a weight that you had not properly realized was there?” — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“We have both been given the same wish to survive, We are all, you see, toys of the life-force. It made you numerically stronger,… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely, then, He must… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“Personal honesty takes time to assert itself - if it is ever allowed to.” — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's? — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me an odd view to take - rather as if one should protest that one didn't LIKE the idea of dying… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?" "Yes darling” — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“Sophie dear,' I said. 'Are you in love with him - with this spider-man?' 'Oh, don't call him that - please - we can't… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“It was all conveyed by the nicest, almost indetectably refined blend of sympathy and bitchiness...” — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life. — Charles Stross 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, very rarely novel.” — Walter de la Mare Copy Share Image
Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen at first… — Carl Rogers 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, the state… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
