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.

Edward Norton

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

Stephanie Plowman

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

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.

Eva Zeisel

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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.

Ann Rice

And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic and in this Savage Garden, these innocent ones belonged in the vampire's arms. A thousand other things can be said about the world, but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.

Dan Collins

This is a deliberation that has to do with aesthetic values and it has to do with property values, ... The board must carefully monitor all proposed building projects, whether they are modular or traditional stick-built.

Gary Warner

It's true we're not going to reduce the volume of traffic, but we can create an aesthetic identity along the road. We hope to beautify it and make it safer for pedestrians.

Vladimir Nabokov

For me, a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.

Shannon Michelle

They are doing so much building around here, and we do interior design and custom furniture. There are a lot more architecture and design firms, and a little bit more clean-lined furniture stores, so we thought that our aesthetic would work well here.

John Vanco

There's a large overlap between Larry's aesthetic and our programmingan awareness of the past, both the Waverly's and the neighborhood's. It feels personal and, on some level, homemade.

Jay Farrar

There's an immediacy and a starkness that's there. I think a lot of Leadbelly's arrangements and his use of the 12-string guitar were atypical, especially the 12-string, which showed his individuality. I guess he approached it that way because the 12-string was louder. Leadbelly and the punk rock aesthetic - maybe there are some similarities there.

Paul Rand

Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant.

Steven Soderbergh

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment ... but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.

John Savage

When you think about all these people looking to live here and the commerce and housing that entails, you've really got to do some planning.

Patricia Clark

We have seen a move on the part of the (Illinois Commerce Commission) and the state and the utilities to try to introduce competition into these industries, and for various reasons it hasn't really worked for any of them.

Michael Leunig

What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values and seeing through suburban mentality and normal community standards so that they can find some much-needed relief for their wilting souls.

Mark Jarvis

We're really at the start of the Internet commerce curve. It's a market we think we will dominate as we go forward. As more people use the Web, more people will be driven to our database.

Tom Courtney

This is actually a really big deal because in Amazon's earnings, about $24 million in gross profit comes from the commerce network,

John Hall

It really depends on the region you're in, what the commerce is in your area,

Jon Oltsik

This is the year that Linux gains critical mass. It'll be very important in big Internet commerce sites.

Michael Rowe

As far as Winchester is concerned, it creates a focal point for commerce and other activities.

Henri Pirenne

The Western Mediterranean, having become a Musulman lake, was no longer the thoroughfare of commerce and of thought which it had always been.