Quotes About Novelty

left. If you drive to work or school along the same route every day, intentionally vary the way you go, exploring different streets and unfamiliar territory. This sounds simple, almost innocuous. But when we do a familiar task in a novel way, we stir a fresh awareness.

It's always special to come to a new club.

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

Never been here before. It's like something on the top floor of a luxury high-rise casino in Atlantic City, where they put semi-retarded adults from South Philly after they've blundered into the mega jackpot Hiro Protagonist - Snow Crash

What makes one man's life more interesting than another's? In general, I should say that we find unpredictable or novel things more interesting.

The automatic waffle machine emitted a piercing electronic beep, signaling it wanted to be turned over. Seamus reached out and flipped it. The Four were standing at the complimentary breakfast bar of their hotel in Coeur d'Alene. None of the others had ever seen an automatic self-serve waffle machine before, and so Seamus was giving them an impromptu demo of the best that America had to offer. "I'm

The solution, she elaborates, is for couples to do novel and exciting things together (to release dopamine and get the romance rush)

A novel is a letter you write to someone you don't know.

Men intrinsically do not trust new things that they have not experienced themselves.

My point is that first loves always make sense because you don't know any better. Everything is a first and any warning bells are drowned out by the sheer novelty of it all.

Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.

What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant;

Sono questi gli effetti dell'amore, dell'infanzia, della gioventù, della gioia. La novità della terra e della vita c'entra per qualche cosa. Nulla è incantevole come il riflesso colorante della felicità sulla soffitta. Tutti abbiamo nel nostro passato una soffitta azzurra.

To a world situation that appears entirely novel to you, there ought to correspond an entirely new conception of socialism.

Me & Mik. I've never been part of an ampersand before.

Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful.

A book that one has not read yet is always more exciting than a book one has memorized.

Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart.

I'm just floating along in this state of elation because all of life's normal responsibilities and irritations are gone. It's like a sheet of blue-lined paper, the kind you write on at school, but with the lines suddenly missing. No structure. Nothing is predictable. Everything that might happen now is new.

I did not see the appeal of a wife. We had never had one before. She would not be half as interesting as our buffalo.

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.