Seeking Novelty Quotes

Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.

All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.

I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.

It seems like people have to get their thrills somehow.

I just want to keep trying to surprise myself and I want to keep challenging myself.

I guess there's a part of you that always wants to try something a little bit different than what you’ve done before.

I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler

I'm just always looking for something that I've never done, or something that feels unique and special. A lot of it is gut and what you emotionally connect with, and that can be a variety of different things.

You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

I crave attention and adventure.

I would say that it is a trait by which Americans, searching for things which are different or new, seem to recognize the gift that people may have that cause people do to things.

I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

When you're a connoiseur you look for interesting rather than good.

Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.

I've been a big fan always of getting my camera in different places and trying to seek the unusual vantage point.

Sometimes I just wonder if I'm being led by variety. If one film leads me down one path, sometimes I just want to turn around and head the opposite way for the next project. I hope that's not the case, but sometimes I suspect that.

But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.