Quotes About Novelty

Yet even the most hackneyed, shopworn science fiction or fantasy tale will feel startling and fresh to a naive reader who doesn't know the milieu is just like the one used in a thousand other stories.

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

The lure of seeing new places, different ways of life, has been almost irresistible.

A tale of manners, to be interesting, must either refer to antiquity so great as to have become venerable, or it must bear a vivid reflection of those scenes which are passing daily before our eyes, and are interesting from their novelty.

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

What the audience heard was like nothing they had ever encountered.

At the other end of the spectrum, George Gideon Oliver King Rameses Osborne, the fourteen-year-old novelty Chancellor and future baronet of Ballentaylor and Ballylemon - a man so posh he probably weeps champagne.

One could not see them without feeling it was the first chapter of a novel.

I've never done it before—I don't like doing things I've never done before.

understanding why we are susceptible to such illusions can provide insight into the risks of hyper-novelty.

novel levels of novelty, such as we are experiencing now, are a special danger. This means that what's needed today—and urgently—is a call to consciousness on a scale that we have not seen before.

True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.

To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

All good writing is like this. It is why a favorite book feels like an old friend and a new acquaintance at the same time, and the reason a favorite author can be a familiar figure and a mysterious stranger all at once.

If you don't like peas,it is probably because you have not had them fresh.It is the difference between reading a great book and reading the summary on the back

More than seven years were gone since this little history of sorrowful interest had reached it's close; and time had softened down much, perhaps nearly all of peculiar attachment to him,- but she had been to dependent on time alone; no aid had been given in change of place, or in novelty or enlargement of society.- No one had ever come within the Kellynch circle, who could bear a comparison with Frederick Wentworth, as he stood in her memory.

It may be easily believed that however little of novelty could be added to their fears hopes and conjectures on this interesting subject by its repeated discussion no other could detain them from it long during the whole of the journey. From Elizabeth's thoughts it was never absent. Fixed there by the keenest of all anguish self-reproach she could find no interval of ease or forgetfulness.

Conformity and monotony, even when they are embellished with a froth of novelty, are not attributes of developing and economically vigorous cities. They are attributes of stagnant settlements.

But he was sixty-two when I was, born, and the novelty of daughters had worn away long before.

I think you should go shopping first. I like when you bring all that kinky stuff home.

I actively pursue experiences that are unlike any others that I've experienced and cultures that I don't know and unfamiliar places and unfamiliar history and things like that.

Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented.

Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.