Quotes About Novelty

There is a need for wisdom in art. Shock, surprise, novelty, and innovation helped to grab attention but are not substantial in themselves.

Give me the new thing and give it to me now. I don't want that old thing - I've seen it, heard it, bought it, slept with it, loved it, but now I'm bored with the old thing and I'm gagging for the new stuff.

oddness or novelty (qualities which usually give value to anything)

And you know what people immediately start looking for, five minutes after they arrive someplace new? You know what's on their minds? I'll tell you: How are they gonna get laid, and where are they gonna find some mind-altering substances.

I tore open a bag of truffle chips---really truffle-flavored potato chips---that cost $3.95: a novelty I'd never buy on my own. I shook them onto a small plate and the scent of truffles, at once earthy and faintly metallic, filled the air. That scent always triggers a free-floating longing in me, the ache of a bittersweet memory, but with no specific memory attached. (Did such poignancy make the chips worth twice as much as the Lay's?)

Everything is strange the first time you do it, Moth. Second time makes it normal. Third time it's boring.

There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last

Druga ?wie?o?? to nonsens! ?wie?o?? bywa tylko jedna - pierwsza, i tym razem ostatnia.

In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly accepted backdrop for thrilling scenes of adventure in private life. Nowadays, history moves at a brisk clip. A historical event, though soon forgotten, sparkles the morning after with the dew of novelty. No longer a backdrop, it is now the adventure itself, an adventure enacted before the backdrop of the commonly accepted banality of private life.

The formal innovations of the great masters always have a certain discreetness about them; such is true perfection; only among the small masters does novelty seek to call attention to itself.

The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor.

Il n'existe aucun moyen de vérifier quelle décision est la bonne car il n'existe aucune comparaison. Tout est vécu tout de suite pour la première fois et sans préparation. Comme si un acteur entrait en scène sans avoir jamais répété. Mais que peut valoir la vie, si la première répétition de la vie est la vie même?

Acaso todo lo que no sea una loca carrera en pos de un desenlace final es aburrido? Cuando masticas este magnífico muslo, ¿te aburres? ¿Tienes prisa por llegar al final? Al contrario, quieres que el pato penetre dentro de ti lo más lentamente posible y que su sabor no se acabe nunca. Una novela no debe parecerse a una carrera de bicicletas, sino a un banquete con muchos platos.

?ovjek sve proživljava prvi put i bez pripreme. Kao glumac koji igra predstavu bez ikakve probe. Pa koliko onda vrijedi život ako je prva proba života ve? život sam? Život je zato uvijek sli?an skici. Samo, ni skica nije prava rije?, jer je skica uvijek nacrt za nešto, priprema za sliku. A skica koja je naš život je skica nizašto, crtež iza kojega ne slijedi slika.

I love to run and I have some tips to keep it fresh and novel. I rarely use the same route twice. That keeps things new.

I love moving. I love new houses. I'm always looking for somewhere else.

We can never possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

T]he creativity of the human creature is such that genuinely new realities are regularly brought into being.

There was that sense of abandoning the familiar for the unknown that characterizes all journeys made for the first time.

HAVE YOU EVER BITTEN REDHOT ICE CUBE? THAT'S CURRY.

To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar health is invariably fascinating. Next to love, it is the one thing which solaces and delights.

It's always nice for the judges and the audiences to have something a bit different so they don't always see and hear the same thing.

Doing the same thing day in, day out. It's just so boring. I like to jump from different things.

Within the sports world, I think it'd be cool to go be part of a baseball game or basketball game - just something different to see what that feels like.