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.

Lucy Lawless

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.

Charlotte Bronte

While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!

Tim White

They may have been small brained, but they stuck around a long time, fully half of our zoological family's 6-million-year existence on the planet.

Gary LaGrange

Thirty percent of the port is no longer in existence as we knew it Aug. 28.

Randy DeHoff

There was nothing in existence when they started working on their application.

Jim Marchiony

There will be a section for every sport that ever fielded a varsity team, whether it's still in existence or not. Every sport -- men's and women's -- will be represented.

Rick Costa

This leave has been in existence for as long as I can remember. This is not anything new.

Phillips Brooks

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Chris Hadfield

Spacewalking trumps everything. Viscerally, it is a phenomenal place to be; to be able to glance right and see the world, glance left and see the universe, and realise for a moment that you're holding on to your known existence with one hand. That's the thing.

Steve Ballmer

It's hard to invent a new thing, and it's just as hard to invent another new thing.

Frank Gehry

For me, every day is a new thing.

Olivier Megaton

I like to discover new things.

Vincente Minnelli

I learn new things all the time.

Urs Fischer

You basically only discover a new thing once.