Quotes About Novelty

Be grateful for anything that still cuts. Dissonance is a beauty that familiarity hasn't destroyed yet.

The novelty of hospital visiting was being slowly replaced by the fatigue of hospital visiting.

It never ceased to surprise the Cokers how willing nightclub patrons were to pitch in behind the scenes. For the novelty of it, rather than altruism. They loved a disaster.

Nostalgia for what's new: The French probably have a word for that.

Why write a novel if it was going to offer more or less the same experience someone could get by turning on a television?

Considering we'd had the same guys in our class since kindergarten, Rafe's novelty factor alone would have had the girls tripping over themselves. He was the hottest ticket in town. And he knew it.

Strange as it may seem, horror loses its power to frighten when repeated too often.

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

In America, as Mark Twain observed, nothing is older than our habit of calling everything new.

America, as Mark Twain observed, nothing is older than our habit of calling everything new.

The biggest novelty of 2013 will be new leadership in China. Very little is known about the views of the new leaders - who will rule the country for ten years. But we do know they're the first generation of Chinese leaders who have spent the majority of their lives in a China 'opening up' to the rest of the world.

in Ecclesiastes 1:9-11 "There is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything new of which one might say, 'See this, it is new?' Already it has existed for ages which were before us. There is no remembrance of earlier things; and of the later things which will occur, there will be no remembrance among those who will come later still.

The other things you don't think about are the opposite things, the things that aren't part of your background, that fall so far outside your personal experience that you don't give them a second thought.

I'm more of a one-time reader. There are so many good books waiting to be read, I'll never go back and read one twice.

I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other systems have been tried and found wanting. Let this one be tried—if for nothing else, for the novelty of the thing.' Vivekananda

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

Timpul, pur ?i simplu, trecuse pe deasupra, cu cortegiul lui de nout??i ?i de prefaceri, ?i aruncase asupra eviden?ei un fel de v?l de obscuritate.

Incongruous shiny new video-game parlor.

He considered each and every second as if he'd never encountered one before, as if the time it kept was a permanent surprise.

is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines, goulags, parataxes, non-senses, or paradoxes, and who turns this into the glory of his novelty, into his promise of change?

And he is an actual grown man. The adult male of the species- a bit of a novelty in my experience.

Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance.

I recommend that people try new stuff or take new fitness classes all the time. It's important to mix up your routine, not only for your body, but also for your mental state.