Quotes About Novelty

Answer to Job : 601 was an anticipation in the grand manner, but everything still hung in mid air as mere revelation that never came down to earth. In view of these facts one cannot, with the best will in the world, see how Christianity, as we hear over and over again, is supposed to have burst upon world history as an absolute novelty. If ever anything had been historically prepared, and sustained and supported by the existing Weltanschauung, Christianity would be a classic example. XII

Things never happen the same way twice.

This magician's trick of shifting the units of measure from money to time is the core novelty of what the philosopher Frédéric Gros calls Thoreau's "new economics," a theory that builds on the following axiom, which Thoreau establishes early in Walden: "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

In addition, the more unusual or creative your system, the better. This will reduce tedium, inject some novelty into the process, and lead to the establishment of stronger mental connections.

The first is that most of these technologies are still relatively new. Because of this reality, their role in your life can still seem novel and fun, obscuring more serious questions about the specific value they're providing.

Whoever looks from inside knows that everything is new.

Men loven of propre kynde newefangelnesse.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

my philosophy of raising kids is kind of extreme. I think you should keep a baby around for a few days after it's born—until the novelty wears off—and then you put it in a big cardboard box with all the best books of Eastern and Western civilization. Then you bury the box and dig it up again when the kid's eighteen.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

Essentially they were those who had not adapted themselves to what had once been called the Atomic Age, in the days when atoms were a novelty. Actually, they were the Simple-Lifers, hungering after a life, which to those who had lived it had probably appeared not so Simple, and who had been, therefore, Simple-Lifers themselves.

I apologize for being the voice of reason here, but this sports fan has almost zero interest in seeing women dunk a basketball. It's a nice little novelty act that has a very short life span.

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before.

I love new restaurants; I love trying out new foods.

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes, they go looking for more like it - until they get tired of it again.

You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.

I don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice.

I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.

I really don't want to make the same film twice, so I am conscious of going after material that is significantly different to anything I've done before.

Every time I get something that's different than the last thing, I get excited. I don't want to play the same thing, every single time.