Top 430 Novelty Quotes & Sayings

Human nature craves novelty.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops. Emergence results in the creation of novelty, and this novelty is often qualitatively different from the phenomenon out of which it emerged.

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure.

Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is to be held tight to; and if novelty is profane, antiquity is sacred.

Man naturally yearns for novelty.

Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation in the biosphere.

I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.

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

Magazines in the traditional sense were aggregators of novelty. A good magazine was a lot of novelty, stuff you've never heard of before, clearly aggregated by people who have been able to travel further and dig deeper than you have been able to do. And that used to be really an important source of stuff for me. And now it is less important because the Internet has eaten it all up. But my Twitter feed as an aggregator of novelty is like... I don't know what I would do if it became any more powerful, I would have to start reining it in somehow.

Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.

Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation.

The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.

Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.

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

Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.

A lot of guys get slammed pretty hard. I do think there's a tendency with women performers to just sort of write them off. The "Flavor of the Month" kind of thing. Or as a novelty, because I do think women in bands are still considered a novelty, or a little confection.

Novelty always sparks ideas.

We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.

On average, the higher the novelty score a film had, the better it did at the box office. But only up to a point. Push past that novelty threshold, and there's a precipice; the revenue earned by a film fell off a cliff.

The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.

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.

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

Being a novelty had its advantages.

In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions of fixity absurd. Incongruously enough, however, when we allow ourselves to fully accept uncertainty, to embrace and cultivate it even, then we actually can begin to feel within ourselves the presence of an Absolute. The person who cannot welcome ambiguity cannot welcome God.

Finally the novelty came. These days it seems to be normal to play novelties somewhere in the ending. Apart from just being the novelty, this move is also very strong. It is most probably that Radjabov found this natural improvement over the board, as he spend more than an hour, if I am not mistaken. But it could be that he was just trying to remember his own analysis (can you imagine how much he has to remember??).

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

Novelty in all things is charming.

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy.

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

Human nature is fond of novelty.

Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

The novelty business is astounding. We can't keep up with it.

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.

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

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

The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.

A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.

As a rule, I think people in L.A. are interested in any writer who brings a different skill set and experiences. There's an attraction to novelty and to anyone whose writing isn't based in screenwriting. I had that novelty.

Novelty is the universal cry - novelty by hook or by crook! It is an exceedingly common mania among people of inordinate wealth to exact incessantly new or so-called new dishes.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty.

I'm not a novelty act from the '80s in most parts of the world.

Turns out that people who try new things, go new places, learn new skills, etc. are happier. This can be tough, because novelty and challenge also bring frustration and irritation - but if you can push through that, novelty and challenge can bring enormous happiness rewards.

If you can make something that looks new - novelty is exciting.

Chance is the only source of true novelty.

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.

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

My first song was Hula Hoop Song, in 1955. It was a novelty song. I had to find someway to reach out and it was with a novelty song. Now, all of my recording obligations have been taken care of. I made 14 albums for Warner Brothers. Five for United Artist before that.

The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.

I'm a flash in the pan: a novelty.

There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself.