Newness Quotations

As the fashion carousel spins ever faster, the concern is that, while the stream of newness never runs out, there's going to be a good deal more crash and burn among designers in the future.

The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

Everyone who's in America spends the first few years not experiencing it. The person is frightened by the newness of the place and doesn't see things. Her emotional universe becomes the entire universe. And then when she thinks of home, her distance in space can seem like a distance in time.

My position in the family turned out to be a lucky one; I bore neither the brunt of my mother's newness to parenthood nor the force of her middle-aged traumas, as my younger sister, Ruth, did.

We're getting better at some stuff and there's a will to win. I think in the beginning they were in the backseat watching the Big Ten. ... There was a newness about the Big Ten that they had to understand. Now, we'll see if they understand.

Maybe they will not have the same traditions. The newness and the changes during the holidays, that will probably dredge back up why they aren't home.

Newness drives sales. Today there is more newness in the market than in the last five years. There is a faster turn in trends driven by the industry.

Right now I am kind of addicted, ... but when the newness wears off I think it won't be as bad. At first you get all these new friends and after that it's like 'what do you do now?'

On the economic front, deflation is hurting companies. Mall traffic across the U.S. is down for the last 21 months, there's a lack of fashion newness out there. The average price that teens are paying for an item is down, and it's difficult to see profit pick up in 2003.

If I nurture the newness while I have it, perhaps, I won't lose it at least not for something less. And if I nurture what I keep, perhaps, I won't miss what I have lost.

He couldn't tell one good risotto from another good risotto. It was the scene. It was the newness of the restaurant.

It brings some newness, some freshness. Any time a change is made, the newness of the teammates, everybody is on their P's and Q's a little bit. I see our guys helping the new guys and explaining things to them. That's good. That's a bonding thing that helps pull those guys together.

L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things. But Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom's family was one of the early families in California, so there's history going back to the 1840s or '50s.

I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.

Mike had his mind made up Saturday, but we didn't know until Sunday. Until I went out there and took the first snap, you don't know. I might have just gone, 'I can't do it.' Once the newness wears off and the toughness wears off, 'I just can't do it.' And I was probably as immobile as I've ever been. I couldn't do anything.

We believe all four of these locations represent excellent opportunities to extend and expand the Bloomingdale's brand, which is synonymous with contemporary fashion, newness and a broad assortment of upscale merchandise, ... We will be intensifying Bloomingdale's presence in Boston, Washington, D.C., and southern California.

There is not one trend, not one kind of taste happening, and that's a good thing. That is not to say there was a shortage of newness in colors, ornament, subtle details.

They're a huge attraction but they don't necessarily, after the first year or two, pay their way, so to speak. To some degree, as the newness wears off, even your corporate sponsors start to kind of fade away.

It's great to be back. It's fun, at a different sort of chapter in my life, to be able to sit here not so stressed out by the newness of it all.

Their sales are terrible and their efforts to come up with newness that appeals to consumers and brings them back into the stores are failing. There's absolutely no indication that they have found a road back to health, and while they have very little debt, they do have too many stores. With that kind of a background, it's not difficult to envision a bankruptcy in the foreseeable future.

The industry has come back strong due to the combination of newness and comfort.

The market was striving for newness and someone to bring a new concept and invention. We shook the industry up from the big boys who had had the market to themselves. We got lots of PR, invented products and took a market share.

Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

New things are always ugly.