Quotes About Novelty

the subject is increased by the fact that while we have to deal with novel and strange facts, we have also to use old words in novel and inconsistent senses.

When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to see something that I don't know. I want to be surprised and stimulated to think about something. I want the magic. I want to be in a situation of uncertainty; that's what excites me.

I think the relationship between social-dominance orientation in people and the extent to which they're made uncomfortable by ambiguity and novelty is really important. Better a stable world that's familiar, in which I'm doing pretty poorly, than dealing with all the ambiguity of a changing world.

College is an environment designed to encourage openness - the ability to think of things in novel ways and entertain unconventional beliefs.

I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.

I don't really have an average day, and that works for me. If I knew what I had to do ahead of time, I would be so depressed. I love the unexpected. I love change. I love things being thrown at me.

If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed.

There's a danger in anything that is unfamiliar. That's the world we live in.

No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.

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.

The Spring I seek is in a new face only.

How comedic are squirrels? We don't have squirrels in Australia. The first time I saw a squirrel was at a meeting at Disney.

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

Animals like novelty if they can choose to investigate it; they fear novelty if you shove it in their faces.

Every novel is brand-new. It's never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it's merely the latest in a long line of narratives—not just novels, but narratives generally—since humans began telling stories to themselves and each other.

The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

A new challenge, to me, is really exciting.

You always have to have new. You have to keep feeding the audience's appetite for new faces and new talent.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

Every game is a new game, and anything can happen.

It's more interesting to see new people on the screen when you go to the cinema. I don't want to see the same old faces.

It's always fun when you get to go somewhere new and you get to meet new people and get new experiences.