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Quotes About Novelty

Nil sub sole novum [...] Qualsiasi azione, nella pienezza del tempo, sprofonda nel nulla.
~ Donna Tartt
I suppose I was only a little depressed, now the novelty of it had worn off, at the wildly alien character of the place in which I found myself: a strange land with strange customs and peoples and unpredictable weathers.
~ Donna Tartt
Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord; Count to ten, and man is bored. With this the gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it?
~ Dorothy Parker
Monday Night Football started in 1970, and when it started, it was something extremely special because sports had not been aired in prime time. So, it was a novelty, and a lot of people thought it wouldn't work, and, of course, it worked spectacularly well.
~ Al Michaels
That was her life, Rey reflected: a succession of anxious moments, interrupted only by the novelty of occasional panic.
~ Alan Dean Foster
He somehow saw that to her being drunk had its whole long sentimental history, whereas to him it was a freakish novelty.
~ Alan Hollinghurst
In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
~ Alanis Morissette
I really look forward to that opportunity to be a student and discover things. That keeps it interesting for me. And I sometimes get easily bored, and there are still some things I wanna talk about instead of repeating something.
~ Edward Zwick
Everything's so, like, saturated nowadays. So if you wanna, like, make an impact, you gotta do something different. Do something new.
~ Tierra Whack
I decided to leave England because I wanted to try something new.
~ Aaron Mooy
It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.
~ Dario Argento
He's thinking about me because I'm a novelty, that's all." "I don't think that's the reason," Shaun said. I glared at him. "Trust me, Shaun, a lot is going on here that you don't know about." "Tara told me he kissed you." I frowned at Tara. "You told him?" "Well, yeah. I tell Shaun everything. He's my boyfriend." "I'm starting to hate that term. 'My boyfriend.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Life becomes boring when things fall in place the way you intended!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
It's weird, I grew up in California, and I've only surfed, like, once.
~ Riley Keough
New money is something fun to celebrate if you never had it.
~ G-Eazy
Life will be interesting only when there is an element of surprise in it.
~ Hamsalekha
I always like to come with stuff people don't expect me to. I like the element of surprise.
~ Da Brat
Life's supposed to be an adventure, a surprise!
~ Anton du Beke
I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.
~ Alexandra Fuller
You'd be surprised how inspired you'll be when you go into a different store than the one you normally go to for gifts.
~ Phoebe Cates
I want to be surprised by life... I think that's more interesting.
~ Robert Lepage
I always wanted to write a book that ended with the word Mayonnaise.
~ Richard Brautigan
If you push novelty of language and metaphor far enough, you can end up with a new way of seeing.
~ Richard Dawkins
The plot thickens," he said, and wished he hadn't said that because it sounded like something from a bad detective novel. "I think we have a suspect." That didn't sound much better. "My house has just exploded, by the way." At least that was novel.
~ Kate Atkinson