Novelty Quotes - Page 5

Can you imagine in 2016 there is a discussion about #OscarsSoWhite? Is it a novelty we've just discovered that the whole production machine is dominated by only one type of human being, excluding women, excluding gays, excluding minorities? This is not new.

Human nature craves novelty.

We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.

Man naturally yearns for novelty.

Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.

Novelty in all things is charming.

I would, however, question the implication that there is some novelty in this beyond modalities [of Mikhail Bakunin], which naturally change as institutions change and develop.

The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.

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

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

They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.

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

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. When sometimes I am reminded that the mechanics and shopkeepers stay in their shops not only all the forenoon, but all the afternoon too, sitting with crossed legs, so many of them - as if the legs were made to sit upon, and not to stand or walk upon.

As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility.

If one had to single out the most revolutionary novelty furnished by Qumran, its contribution to our understanding of the genesis of Jewish literary compositions could justifiably be our primary choice.

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

What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?

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

Hopefully I never get hit with that stigma of being a novelty act. Since [my father] death in 1998 I've been doing a program called Sinatra Sings Sinatra.

What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood.

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

Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.

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.