Quotes by Novelty For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me. Abigail Washburn novelty chinese-music chinese The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty. Alfred North Whitehead metaphysical novelty creative We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors? Ambrose predecessors novelty catholic Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable. Andre Maurois attraction novelty Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. Anthony Burgess novelty fashion men Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity. Aphra Behn novelty curiosity The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome. August Bournonville novelty dance beautiful A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other. B. F. Skinner novelty culture hands Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty. Baltasar Gracian novelty risk losing There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself. Ben H. Winters novelty detectives littles The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. Benjamin Disraeli novelty reading age Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful. Benjamin Disraeli novelty beautiful beauty I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past. Berthe Morisot extremes novelty past I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin Bill Watterson hobbes novelty song It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power. Blaise Pascal novelty deception deceiving There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past. Carlos Fuentes variation novelty past Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite. Charles Caleb Colton novelty may giving Novelties please less than they impress. Charles Dickens impress novelty please Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life. Charles Stross novelty motivation joy One picture and one win cannot right a million wrongs. It's a step in the right direction.We have to get to a point where a movie like "Moonlight" winning [Oscar] or Barry Jenkins being nominated and winning, you know, for a screenplay or being nominated for best director - that it's just commonplace. They shouldn't be a novelty. Cheo Hodari Coker novelty winning steps 1234567»