Novelty is not necessarily a virtue.
Rita Mae Brown
41 quotes about novelty follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!
Why, on the theory of Creation, should there be so much variety and so little real novelty?
Charles Darwin
We'll have face painting and hula hoop games and other circus challenges, as well as novelty photo ops — things like that.
Leslie Brolin
Every innovation occasions more harm and and derangement of order by its novelty, than benefit by its abstract utility.
Legal Maxim
There's more to 'The Wizard of Oz' than just one movie. It's not just novelty cutesy things.
Stephanie Plowman
Sure, some people are going to see me as a novelty but I actually don't care about that stuff.
Scott Draper
It's not a novelty for them as much as it is in western North Dakota.
Chuck Keller
Blue trout are very rare. They're sort of a novelty.
Tom Greene
The novelty may worn off a little bit. They haven't had the best of starts. They don't have an owner yet.
Joshua Schwartz
He's distinguished himself in his career, but there's no novelty associated with him. We've had white men who've gone to Harvard and been at the top of their class and are smart.
Greta Van Susteren
After a month or so, the novelty began to wear off. So I, like, put up a poll to see who the next one should be about. There were about 12 people on my list. Chuck Norris wasn't there at all. But I got a lot of e-mails saying, 'Put on Chuck Norris, put on Chuck Norris.' So I did, and he won by a landslide.
Ian Spector
These are people who grew up in Britain, that are now attacking their own community, and taking other Muslim people into their missions and killing them ... a novelty we haven't seen in this country so far.
Peter Newman
Music is timeless. There's just a novelty to television that you can't compare to music. To try and rely on your television clout in the music industry is not going to take you very far.
Allan Reid
This won't be a novelty stunt where he opens the show up and disappears.
Anthony Zuiker
We're kind of hoping the novelty of us being there will carry the day, attendance-wise.
Larry Hanley
I don't mean finding 15 different ways to swing from a chandelier. But novelty in life drives up peoples sense of well being.
Linda Fisher
Sometimes that's easier to do. They get excited about it - it's a novelty. The ones you swim over and over again you don't always want to do that in back-to-back duals.
Judd Anderson
Ben is not a concern and not a thought in my mind, ... You say Ben's a novelty. I'm glad you think so. But we're in a punting competition, not a media competition.
Micah Knorr
The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
Thomas Griffith
It feels great. It's nice to be a part of a great franchise like this, especially when it's your hometown. I feel very fortunate to live out a dream like this, but it's my job now. The novelty has to wear off because I'm here to do a job and be part of something special.
Tom Fitzgerald
Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.
Stephen Jay Gould
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
Andre Gide
This merger is particularly challenging to review, not so much because of its size, but because of its novelty, ... It's difficult to grasp the impact on consumers in markets that have barely emerged.
Michael Powell
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
Carl Rogers
There's an innocence that has kind of gone away. Umm . . . the novelty factor hasn't been there for a while.
Charlie Sheen
It's a fad thing, a novelty -- it's like a pair of trainers, one minute they're in and the next minute they're out.
Suzanne Shaw
Early on in MTV's life cycle, the novelty of the video wore off.
Van Toffler
It's the second season, so the glamour and novelty has worn off.
Bob Gordon
It was the novelty using this building to promote one of the regions greatest assets.
Ann Worcester
The novelty is that we reveal a potential communication, involving the transmitter serotonin, between immune cells that is normally only found between neurons.
Gerard Ahern
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.
Jean De La Bruyere
It's one thing to have him as a novelty as a customer. It's another thing to have him as an associate.
Matt Epstein
It was more than a sideline thing or a novelty. It was a relationship.
Michael Leahy
We feel that the genre of African dance — it's not unlike the genre of French classical dance or modern dance — it's simply a genre. It's not a novelty. It's become one of the standard art forms of dance.
Vince Paul
What gets the mass media's attention are the novelty moments, when women are pitted against men, and that becomes news.
Michael Messner
Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
Irving Thalberg
Besides the novelty of this first season and the general inexperience of Indiana hunters with fall turkey hunting, there were several environmental events that influenced the harvest.
Steve Backs
It's starting to get a good solid brand reputation. It's not being seen as a novelty much any more.
Bob Tosterud
The novelty of waking up to a fax machine next to your bed going off in the middle of the night with an order from Japan wears off.
Naomi Bradshaw
In Japan, the novelty effect [of new models] is stronger than anywhere.
Hans Tempel
Most people will have a double take. It raises the novelty level and makes it somewhat more fun.
Edward Morrison
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