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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The religion of the corporate world is novelty. What is new is always right.

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

I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect.

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

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

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

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

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

Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.

For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me.

I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin

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

For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.

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

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

The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.

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

I love novelty workout pants. It means my workout kit is really bright and vibrant and out there.

The value of kitsch exists in its novelty and in its connotations to more legitimate counterparts.

If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

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

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

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

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

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty.

Maybe they're not 'books,' but 'Acme Novelty Library' and 'Eightball' are two comics I can't get enough of.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

To take women's equality from novelty to norm, we need to change narratives at a societal and individual level.

Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.

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

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

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

Habituation is indeed a fact of human psychology. That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans.

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