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Quotes About Novelty

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
~ Laurence Sterne
I CAN'T WAIT TO GO TO SCHOOL. THIS WILL PROBABLY BE A ONE-TIME-ONLY FEELING.
~ Charise Mericle Harper
Savor the imminent weirdness of the day.
~ Charles Baxter
Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.
~ Charles Dickens
My thirst and passion from boyhood... has been for poetry — for poetry in its widest and wildest sense — for poetry untrammelled by the laws of sense, rhyme, or rhythm, soaring through the universe, and echoing the music of the spheres! From my youth, nay, from my very cradle, I have yearned for poetry, for beauty, for novelty, for romancement.
~ Lewis Carroll
Don't worry, it only seems kinky the first time.
~ Author Unknown
I've never been skydiving, but I have zoomed in on Google Earth really fast.
~ Internet meme
One very important element for me to make a movie is, it has to be unique and different from any other.
~ Stephen Chow
For me, novelty matters; uniqueness matters.
~ Ayushmann Khurrana
In 2009, novelty toymaker Maxfield & Oberton released Buckyballs, sets of curiously powerful magnetic marbles that became the most popular cubicle toy since the Rubik's Cube, selling more than 2 million units in 15 countries.
~ David Sax
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.
~ Marilyn Hacker
The unknown is always interesting.
~ Michael Ovitz
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
~ Anthony Burgess
Women of the world crave excitement.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
~ Madeleine M. Kunin
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
~ Walter Lippmann
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
~ Richard Adams
Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.
~ Tim Jackson
Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. She has never had practice in making the best of such a condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new.
~ Thomas Hardy
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
~ Thomas W. Higginson
I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.
~ Gus Van Sant
I'm not normally very adventurous with food.
~ Bethany Mota
I kind of like not knowing how to do something - it's more exciting.
~ Jeffrey Tambor
I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.
~ David Coverdale