Quotes About Novelty

What's brilliant is having the opportunity to come to a piece of work with no preconceptions.

The greatest thing about 'New Girl' is that you never can predict what is next!

As soon as things become predictable, they become boring.

Young people like things that are fresh and new. If something does seem fatigued, or derivative, they're going to let you know.

I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.

I always look for a challenge and something that's different.

It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.

One of the things we're really proud of is that every single task is different, even if there are similarities. You never know what's coming up next.

Chilli ice cream doesn't taste bad. But I wouldn't eat it again.

I've never, ever tasted beer.

My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits, anyone can find something new to science, and if it's truly novel, the entire edifice of science might have to be restructured.

Mr. Fitzgerald is a novelist and Mrs. Fitzgerald is a novelty

Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

Daily Law: Contemplate any feelings of uncertainty and even discomfort and hold fast to them. Amid such uncertainty your dormant sense of wonder will begin to stir, and things will start to appear novel and surprising as they did when you were very young.

A high incidence of 7R, associated with impulsivity and novelty seeking, is the legacy of humans who made the greatest migrations in human history.

You don't look strong enough to trouble nobody around here.... We grow our own troubles--it would be a novelty to have some we ain't already used to.

A man can only do a given thing so many times with freshness and spirit--then, no matter what it is, it becomes like an office task. I enjoy cards and whoring, but even cards and whoring can grow boresome. You tup your wife a thousand times and that becomes an office task, too.

En gang må jo være den første, ikke sant? - Jeg trodde nesten jeg var for gammal til det. - Til hva? - Til at noe er første gang.

I enjoy Mr. Verne's work," she went on brightly. "He writes of such exotic places. But you've seen all that sort of thing in person. I suppose it's nothing to you." "Of course. Giant squids. Cannibals. Every day.

She tasted like sunshine. And until this second I didn't know that sunshine tasted like anything.

Yet the presence of death always refreshes experience thus--that is its function: to help us deliberate on the novelty of time.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

Chance is the only source of true novelty.