Quotes About Novelty

Intensity of experience is what we're looking for, I think. We know we won't find it at home any more, but there's always the hope that we'll find it abroad

Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.

I want people to surprise themselves. Instead of saying "Oh, god, didn't we already do this 17 times?"

There is no point of adventure if you have known about everything.I wonder how God deals with the situation, considering the boredom.

One nice thing about telling a clean joke is there's a good chance no one's heard it before.

So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense.

I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch.

I just don't feel good if I'm repeating myself.

I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

unfamiliar things least produces familiarity. Familiarity only gets closer to you when you open your doors to familiar things

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.

The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.

Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.

Who misses what they have never, ever even imagined?

You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences

The only way to be absolutely safe is to never try anything for the first time.

Don't live every day as if it were your last. Live every day as if it were your first.

A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice . . . The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself, and thinking about worship is a different thing from worshipping.

Everything on earth has happened before, nothing is new, but woe to the lovers who fail to discover a fresh blossom in every future kiss.

Respect the work that you've never done before.