Novelty Quotes
-
What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?
-
When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.
-
For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
-
Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.
-
The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the work which I had undertaken. . . . Astronomy is written for astronomers. To them my work too will seem, unless I am mistaken, to make some contribution.
-
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
-
Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.
-
Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.
-
We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.
-
We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.
-
I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect.
-
Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.
-
Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.
-
The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.
-
Above all, beware of platitudes, i.e., word combinations that have already appeared a thousand times.... As a general rule, try to find new combinations of words (not for the sake of their novelty, but because every person sees things in an individual way and must find his own words for them).
-
We so love all new and unusual things that we even derive a secret pleasure from the saddest and most tragic events, both because of their novelty and because of the natural malignity that exists within us.
-
Novelty always sparks ideas.
-
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 she is worse than a weak woman who has never any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. She has never had practice in making the best of such a condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new.
-
The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.
-
Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.
-
Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty.
-
We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
-
A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.
-
Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.
