Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

David Hume

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.

Denis Diderot

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

Anthony Zuiker

This won't be a novelty stunt where he opens the show up and disappears.

We're not going to get them just because they're a novelty item. We have to be responsible with our budget.

Edward Norton

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

Andre Maurois

Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.

Heinrich Heine

Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

Francois Rabelais

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

There's more to 'The Wizard of Oz' than just one movie. It's not just novelty cutesy things.

Ernst Mayr

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

Jessica Savitch

Being a novelty had its advantages.

Honore de Balzac

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

Eva Zeisel

Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

Madeleine M. Kunin

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

Pliny the Elder

Human nature craves novelty.

Pliny the Elder

Human nature is fond of novelty.

Ovid

Novelty in all things is charming.

Nicolas Chamfort

Change, change,--we all covet change.

Nicolaus Copernicus

The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the work which I had undertaken. . . . Astronomy is written for astronomers. To them my work too will seem, unless I am mistaken, to make some contribution.

Mason Cooley

The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.

Eric Hoffer

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

Wendell Berry

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

Terence McKenna

Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.