Novelty Quotes

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful - it is 'life threatening'.

Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.

No manufacturer, from General Motors to the Little Lulu Novelty Company, would think of putting a product on the market without benefit of a designer.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.

Scenes must be beautiful which daily view'd Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years.

The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.

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

I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought.

For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.

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

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.

A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking.

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.

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.

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.

Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.

Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

It is the custom on Africa to always produce new and monstrous things. [Fr., Afrique est coustumiere toujours choses produire nouvelles et monstrueuses.]

The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment- an American, lost in Pakistan, singing a German hymn in Swahili.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

Being a novelty had its advantages.

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty. [Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.]

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains.

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

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

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

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

There are three things which the public will always clamour for, sooner or later; namely: novelty, novelty, novelty.

All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy.

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

When people screamed novelty the first time around talking about an ugly video and stuff I was really insulted because, hold on a minute, everyone you see in the video are real life.

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

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.

We live of novelty in science, so whenever you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that this cannot be done, that it is not interesting and so on.

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess.