Quotes About Exotic Places

#1. When I think, where did I laugh the most, where did I eat the most, where did I just feel good all the time, I would say making the Bond movie 'Die Another Day.' To be part of such an iconic franchise and to travel to exotic places - that was the most fun I ever had.

Halle Berry

#2. I don't need exotic places to be stimulated. Out of familiarity comes nuance. The more you revisit a subject the more you're like to discover.

Ray Metzker

#3. You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.

Ken Jennings

#4. I am always at home even when I am traveling to exotic places because this world is my home.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Is there a certain type of drama you like?" Kate whispered. Carswell twisted his lips up in thought. "Adventure stories, I guess. With lots of exotic places and daring escapades ... and swashbuckling space pirates, naturally.

Marissa Meyer

#6. Libraries are fascinating places; sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of traveling to distant lands.

Umberto Eco

#7. My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

Tony Judt

#8. Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the handsome prince, travel to exotic places, and take the leap that almost always had a happy ending.

Teresa Mummert

#9. Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... On steamer chairs topside or poolside, in the lounges, everywhere you see men and women with their noses in books, devouring them for hours.

Garrison Keillor

#10. First Globals are ready to go anywhere, experience everything, and work and live in exotic places, and for them, family life takes priority over work life and a flexible, diverse, collaborative, fun learning environment is key.

Susan Scott

#11. Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see.

Floyd Skloot

#12. Most people will actually tell you, traveling to those exotic places is enjoying life, but really they are spending away and whining away their lives.

Sunday Adelaja

#13. As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.

Sam Ewing

#14. Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#15. knowing how the mind works isn't going to change how your mind works. Even

Alan Deutschman

#16. We don't have to go to wild places to find wildlife. A surprisingly wide range of species can be found in our sities and towns, from familiar animals like the raccoon to more exotic ones like the mountain lion.

Roger Tory Peterson

#17. One of the more sophisticated and accepting things about Europe, when it came to difficult decisions regarding sexual identity, was that the Europeans were so used to sexual differences that they had already begun to make fun of them.

John Irving

#18. Even the wisest man grows tense
With some sort of violence
Before he can accomplish fate,
Know his work or choose his mate.
Poet and sculptor, do the work,
Nor let the modish painter shirk

William Butler Yeats

#19. Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.

P. J. O'Rourke

#20. I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to the most exotic faraway places I possibly can, only to find the closest things to me when I get there.

Aleksandra Mir

#21. At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

Daniel Craig

#22. My writing is called exotic or avant-garde because I write about rural places. Has it really come to this, that if you write about the country you are avant-garde? How did this happen? Modern agriculture and spaces are still so relevant.

Sarah Hall

#23. 'The Tudors' was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time.

Annabelle Wallis

#24. Collect adventures and experiences to reminisce about ... go to far places, meet new people, eat exotic foods, enjoy all varieties of women, look on unfamiliar landscapes, see new things.

Gary Jennings

#25. Books that take us to an exotic place and never let the grit of that place get under our fingernails...are far less successful. One leaves the places of the book and never feels like one's really gotten one's imaginative passport stamped.

Andrew Lazo

#26. We were two halves to a whole. Water, the mother of creation. Land, the father who supported it. We were forever joined, our souls tethered. In this moment, the truth came to life: Whether the gate closed or not, I would never be whole without this man by my side.

Denise Grover Swank

#27. I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard.

Richard Bode

#28. The joys of life can be found anywhere. Far places only offer exotic ways to suffer.

Dean Koontz

#29. The romantics were prompted to seek exotic subjects and to travel to far off places. They failed to realize that, though the transcendental must involve the strange and unfamiliar, not everything strange or unfamiliar is transcendental.

Mark Rothko

#30. With all the risk and danger television sprays at us each day like tear gas, it occurs to me they should simply open each evening's show by saying, "Welcome to the Channel Two News; we're very surprised you made it through another day.

Thom Rutledge

#31. It's for the hamster that I'm gonna buy! This is so perfect!
(after opening a hamster wheel at Christmas)

Gerard Way

#32. The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.

Peter Agre

#33. All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#34. I visited many places,
Some of them quite
Exotic and far away,
But I always returned to myself.

Dejan Stojanovic

#35. To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively.

E. O. Wilson

#36. Our terminal decline into old age and death stems from the fine print of the contract that we signed with our mitochondria two billion years ago.

Nick Lane