Top 100 Nothing New Quotes
#1. The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.
Daniel H. Wilson
#2. King Solomon says in Proverbs that there is nothing new under the sun.
James Joyce
#3. There is nothing new under the sun, just new people doing the same things.
Mario Diana
#4. The critics have been writing me off for 20 years. That's nothing new. As far as I know I still have plenty of fans and sell lots of records. Do I care what critics say about me? No, and I don't read reviews.
Madonna Ciccone
#5. Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.
David Hume
#6. The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
Andre Gide
#7. The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer.
W. Edwards Deming
#8. There is nothing new under the sun, not even Manet.
Jules Breton
#9. Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids? ... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else's hand, or many people's hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
Ai Weiwei
#10. Some people say there's nothing new under the sun. I still think that there's room to create, you know. And intuition doesn't necessarily come from under this sun. It comes from within.
Pharrell Williams
#11. Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.
Don Cornelius
#12. When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say.
Anonymous
#13. When you get as old as I am, you kind of believe there's nothing new under the sun, but there's always a fresh way of looking at something. That's why I love working with young people. They remind you of things you used to know and have since forgotten.
Jacki Weaver
#14. Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.
Frank Herbert
#15. When we say that Jesus Christ was produced without sexual union, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended to heaven, we propound nothing new or different from what you believe regarding those whom you call the sons of Jupiter.
Justin Martyr
#16. FDR created today's 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There's nothing new about the Obama Narrative. It is the FDR Narrative on steroids. It is intended to lead to greater statism and political gain.
Arthur C. Brooks
#17. It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
Bobby Jones
#18. I met a girl, Doc."
He let out a light laugh. "You meet girls every day, Connor; this is nothing new.
Sandi Lynn
#19. There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.
Antonin Scalia
#20. There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
Harry S. Truman
#21. I was more scared than I let on, but that was nothing new.
Tammara Webber
#22. I can focus on writing, or I can get lost in wonderfully fun but endless conversations and produce nothing new at all. I count on those people who enjoy my work to understand this.
Ken Wilber
#23. Christian leadership is a dead-end street when nothing new is expected, when everything sounds familiar and when ministry has regressed to the level of routine.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#24. All I heard was the blood rushing through my ears, and the distant rumble and crackle of the Lake of Fire. (And Khufu scratching himself and grunting, but that was nothing new.)
Rick Riordan
#25. I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on.
Gary Numan
#26. But history teaches us nothing new. And should I choose to look ahead, to what is yet to come, why, I see a future made most toxic, born on the day society sets the value of wealth above that of lives.' Sandalath
Steven Erikson
#28. - fear comes only when you don't have faith in the outcome. And boredom comes only when you believe there's nothing new worth learning. I simply can't understand how any of that will occur today.
Trish Mercer
#29. There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
Ramana Maharshi
#30. Nothing new has ever happened to aq son of Adam, she said. Everything has already been lived and everything has already been told. If only we listened to the stories.
Laila Lalami
#31. Be assured, there is nothing new in theology except that which is false.
Charles Spurgeon
#32. The Public School, he had long ago decided, was neurotic. It wanted a world in which nothing new came about, in which there were no surprises. And that was the world of the compulsive-obsessive neurotic; it was not a healthy world at all.
Philip K. Dick
#33. We talk about globalization today as if it's some great big new thing, that we've all just discovered. But there's really nothing new about it.
Jacqueline Winspear
#34. Risk-taking, trust, and serendipity are key ingredients of joy. Without risk, nothing new ever happens. Without trust, fear creeps in. Without serendipity, there are no surprises.
Rita Gelman
#35. I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived it and there's nothing new to discover. So, I'm unlikely to write a memoir.
Nick Earls
#36. But it's true, it's nothing new that decisions about what movies are to be made, and how they're to be made, and who's to be hired to do what, and whether you hire somebody to do their job, or whether you hire somebody to fill a position and you tell them what to do.
Jeffrey Jones
#37. The government is a functionary of the corporations - and there's nothing new about that. You can find people in the 1930s talking about the army basically working for Wall Street in all of these countries [it invades].
Henry Rollins
#38. The birth of the search engine, it's nothing new: it's essentially embedded in our literature; it's how ideas relate, how the mind makes connections. I mean, connections are made online through links, and within an algorithm, they're made through degrees of relevancy between different terms.
Joshua Cohen
#40. There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
Margaret Thatcher
#41. Kim's gripe with humans was nothing new. She, like the rest of the Guardians, put her life on the line every time she faced demons and was entitles to her own opinion. Sometimes I wish she would tall in love with a human. That would shut her up.
P.C. Cast
#42. There's nothing new about European anti-Americanism. To go to a dinner party of intellectuals in Paris in 1960 was like walking into a tiger's den with a piece of raw meat in your hands.
Charles McCarry
#43. New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#44. What I'm trying to tell people is that police brutality in the 'hood is nothing new. And the thing is that whether this guy, the cop killer in my song, is real or not, believe it, there are people at that point.
Ice-T
#45. Sometimes geniuses create nothing new, they organize already existing material into something completely useful in other ways
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#46. He was invaded by an unreasoning calm, which he interpreted as an omen that nothing new was going to happen, that everything he had done in his life had been in vain, that he could not go on: it was the end.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#47. The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.
Ben Katchor
#48. It's not that we like sad movies that make us feel like, 'Oh, my God, what a bummer.' We like emotionally moving experiences. It's nothing new. It's catharsis. It goes back to the Greeks.
Gayle Forman
#49. The message of [Fahernheit 9/11] is very weak and propagandistic ... We were used to such messages in the communist days. Everybody has open eyes and can understand that this is propaganda. It was a weak film that tells us nothing new.
Vaclav Klaus
#50. Does nothing new ever happen in this fucking country?
Brad McKinniss
#51. I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.
Layne Staley
#52. No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun ...
Nas
#53. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.
Paulo Coelho
#54. People die, and everything they've ever said just echoes around and around. There's nothing new. Only the same nonsense from their lives.
Lauren DeStefano
#55. I say that Roger Casement
Did what he had to do,
He died upon the gallows
But that is nothing new.
William Butler Yeats
#56. Logically there is nothing new to say about the New. Or maybe it's just a problem of articulating unfamiliar perceptions.
David Toop
#57. There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.
Ann Brashares
#58. I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.
Leo Tolstoy
#59. I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.
Fanny Kemble
#60. If there is nothing new on the earth, still the traveler always has a resource in the skies. They are constantly turning a new page to view. The wind sets the types on this blue ground, and the inquiring may always read a new truth there.
Henry David Thoreau
#61. I'm not running, I'm not planning on running, and I've got nothing new on that story.
Mitt Romney
#62. The value of a sentence is the personality that utters't, for nothing new can be said by any man or woman.
Joseph Conrad
#63. So there is nothing to be afraid of. And yet I am afraid, afraid of what my words will do to me, to my refuge, yet again. Is there really nothing new to try? I mentioned my hope, but it is not serious. If I could speak and yet say nothing, really nothing?
Samuel Beckett
#64. Nothing is original. It says it right there in the Bible. Ecclesiastes:
That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun.
Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of previous ideas.
Austin Kleon
#65. It is my belief that one of the most exciting things about the World Wide Web is that they allow minds, as Spock might say, to meld. The transfer of consciousness through a variety of mediums is nothing new.
Frederick Lenz
#66. Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.
James Mattis
#67. Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.
Ramana Maharshi
#68. This is nothing new. It has proved meritorious because we have gathered significant information on bad guys and only on bad guys over the years.
Saxby Chambliss
#69. In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very well indeed for the entertainment of everybody else.
Simon McBurney
#70. But the worse you express yourself these days the more profound people think you
though that's nothing new.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#71. STOP looking back!!!! When your past calls do NOT pick up!! it has nothing new to say.
Joseph Simmons
#72. There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.
Henry Rollins
#73. Oh honey, there's nothing new on this earth when it comes to what men and women do in the dark. First love is when you learn. So you've learned that love can open you up like spring sun on a wee primrose. Good. Remember that. You know how to love.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#74. Total?" I called. He looked up alertly, then ran over to me, small pink tongue hanging out. Total?" I said when he was close. "Can you talk?" He flopped down on the grass, panting slightly. "Yeah. So?" Jeezum. I mean, mutant weirdos are nothing new to me, you know? But a talking dog?
James Patterson
#75. No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done
Nas
#76. Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad - yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there's nothing new in it. Just a golden color. What the hell, right? When people start playing with color, you know they're played out.
Vaclav Smil
#77. No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.
Ian Rankin
#78. The lead story on MSNBC was the news that there was nothing new to report in the Gary Condit story. So remember when there is nothing new to report, MSNBC will be the station not to report it first.
Jay Leno
#81. I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when Im lonely I need the noises of destruction When theres nothing new.
Nick Lowe
#82. I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
Camille Claudel
#83. Goodbye, my friend, goodbye
My love, you are in my heart.
It was preordained we should part
And be reunited by and by.
Goodbye: no handshake to endure.
Let's have no sadness - furrowed brow.
There's nothing new in dying now
Though living is no newer.
Sergei Yesenin
#84. There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#85. There is nothing new under the sun.
Anonymous
#86. I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.
Freddie Mercury
#87. It's an utter, utter necessity to renounce war forever. And nothing new can be built until this is done.
Benjamin Creme
#88. There are too many remakes, too many reimaginings. Nothing new, and that's always a bad sign. They remade 'Frankenstein' 26 times between 1930 and 1970, so it's not a new phenomenon.
Drew Daywalt
#89. Everything new is on the rim of our view, in the darkness, below the horizon, so that nothing new is visible but in the light of what we know.
Zia Haider Rahman
#91. We see that humanism has become for many a polite name for a vocal, aggressive, influential crusade against religion in the name of social and moral advance. There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods" [Genesis 3:5 KJV].
Billy Graham
#92. I have seen the Future, because there is Nothing new under the Sun
Kaizen Kobe
#93. Any day you walk down a street and find nothing new but nothing missing counts as a good day in a city you love.
Kathleen Rooney
#95. Life in the auntring, or for a settled man, is repetitive, as I said; and so it can be dull. Nothing new happens. The mind always wants new happenings.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#96. Charity fundraisers are nothing new to me. In the past, I have taken part in ski races for hospitals, walks for breast cancer, and long distance bike rides for geriatric care.
David Sax
#97. Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
Anthony De Mello
#98. Critics of the Wall Street protesters claim that they have old ideas, nothing new, and they're never going to work. Wait a minute., that sounds like this show.
David Letterman
#99. Wheresoe'er I turn my view,
All is strange, yet nothing new:
Endless labor all along,
Endless labor to be wrong:
Phrase that Time has flung away;
Uncouth words in disarray,
Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet,
Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
Samuel Johnson
#100. There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.
Martin Luther King Jr.
