Top 100 Quotes About Exotic
#1. I was an exotic bird traversing an earth ravaged by humanity's poverty of spirit. I
Paulo Coelho
#2. I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name.
Patrick Stump
#4. I don't believe the greatest views in the world are great because they are vast or exotic,' she said. 'I think their power comes from the knowledge that they do not change. You look at them and you know they have been the same for a thousand years.
Helen Simonson
#5. And he's wearing some exotic cologne that makes me want to eat him.
Ellen Hopkins
#6. I took many trips down to New Orleans trying to experience the city as deeply as possible. I'm from Detroit so New Orleans seemed very exotic to me.
Ruta Sepetys
#7. 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
#8. People generally complain that they're overburdened by responsibilities, forgetting that they chose to have those responsibilities. No one makes you work like a dog in order to live in a nice house, put your kids in nice schools, drive a smart car and go on exotic foreign holidays. It's up to you.
Mark Barrowcliffe
#9. You're beautiful," Archer murmured, his husky voice rolling over my skin. He reached up with his other hand to touch the blue streak in my hair. "You're like a creature from some exotic land that no one has discovered yet.
Nina Lane
#10. I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.
Alexander Wang
#11. Wherever there is disaster, the newsman is there. If he cannot find disaster, he searches for the odd and the peculiar, the exotic and the unfamiliar. His photographs, seen by millions, make momentary events and strange occurrences all over the world our common property.
Beaumont Newhall
#12. I cook a very exotic Hyderabadi rice dish called Hyderabadi biryani, which takes an entire day to cook, and the last time I cooked it was multiple years ago, but someday I'll cook it again.
Satya Nadella
#13. Well, I'm certainly not Ragnor Fell the exotic dancer.
Cassandra Clare
#14. I do feel a kinship with anthropology or ethnography, although when you hear those terms you think of something exotic. Generally, photographic anthropology has that taste of the faraway or undiscovered place. But my anthropology has more to do with what's in my reach.
Ari Marcopoulos
#15. Happiness does not come in large incomes or the most exotic home, it comes in small doses of a great self esteem which can be built upon the strengths of an individual.
Nicholas A. McGirr
#16. I've always liked American actors particularly. Because that was my first impression. I was very enamoured of America when I was a kid because we were surrounded by American soldiers during the war, the accent was very strange to me, it was very exotic and very captivating.
Anthony Hopkins
#17. An exotic birthplace on its own is not informative of anything.
Italo Calvino
#18. Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.
John Grierson
#19. I knew Catholics existed, with their saints and candles and rosaries, and all their other exotic ways of being wrong.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#20. had the strength of will not to allow them to fall. "Those men may wish to bed me, my lord, seeing me as exotic and strange,
Bethany M. Sefchick
#21. To be exotic, on the other hand, one had to think not just outside the box but outside the world of boxes.
David Sedaris
#22. If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
Salman Rushdie
#23. As soon as I came to L.A., I was told that I was exotic. I'd think, But I'm from Miami! I'm as American as a cheeseburger!
Genesis Rodriguez
#24. Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#25. The need to find comfort in the dark. And it was a comfort, being next to her. So I just stayed there, hearing her breath move in and out, sounding like the tide of some exotic sea.
Matt Haig
#26. Without the real enjoyment afforded by hospitality, mindless entertainment fills the vacuum, substituting fantasy for reality. The sophisticated replaces the simple, and the exotic and the expensive become the desirable sources of pleasure.
Mitchell Kalpakgian
#27. Use familiar words-words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary, and no advice is more difficult to accept. When we feel an impulse to use a marvelously exotic word, let us lie down until the impulse goes away.
James J. Kilpatrick
#28. We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.
David L. Katz
#29. In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize that we were living in Bible Belt farming country miles from civilization. Buckley seemed impossibly exotic.
Malcolm Gladwell
#30. Of all the exotic aromas and experiences from my sojourn in Ethiopia, it's the frankincense I miss most.
Cathleen Falsani
#31. If you look back at history, the various Maharajas of the Indian empire actually helped support a whole British industry. The royalty in those days ordered exotic cars in huge numbers.
Mark Shand
#32. Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.
Marie Brennan
#33. People's view of exotic or Asian women are changing. It's much nicer to hear 'She's pretty' than 'She's pretty - for an Asian woman.'
Sung Hi Lee
#34. Indeed, everything that is currently being said about America's diverse Muslim population - that they are foreign and exotic and un-American - was said about Catholic and Jewish immigrants nearly a century ago.
Reza Aslan
#35. He was some exotic planet and I was his favorite satellite But he's no planet, just the final fading light of an already dead star.
Nicola Yoon
#36. I'm interested in finding whether or not there is a really massive, what we like to call 'super massive' black hole at the center of our galaxy. And the reason this is interesting is that it gives us an opportunity to prove whether or not these exotic objects really exist.
Andrea M. Ghez
#37. I hadn't had a perfect moment yet. And it's very important for me to have perfect moments in exotic countries like that ... it kind of lets you know when it's time to go home ...
Spalding Gray
#38. Over here you'll see San Fran is also host to a wide variety of exotic animals. Many find our streets to be like a modern rain forest," she says, indicating a flock of flea-ridden pigeons pecking leftovers off a bum sleeping on the curb.
Sarah Noffke
#39. Black holes are very exotic objects. Technically, a black hole puts a huge amount of mass inside of zero volume. So our understanding of the center of black holes doesn't make sense, which is a big clue to physicists that we don't have our physics quite right.
Andrea M. Ghez
#40. 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
#41. Kate could feel a strange heat along the back of her neck, something she hadn't felt in a while. It was almost exotic, like tasting turmeric or saffron after a year of eating pudding. There was a bite to it.
She was annoyed.
She was finally awake and annoyed.
Sarah Addison Allen
#42. I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews, and directors would look at these sultry, exotic looks, hear this clipped accent and think the two don't go together. So they would give me a foreign accent.
Kate O'Mara
#43. What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home.
Alain De Botton
#44. The pursuit of exotic beauty in such a life would have been like having a ball of tinfoil in your stomach, all that airy metal filling you up with hunger.
Laura Kasischke
#45. how delicious he smelled. It was a bold, provocative mix of wool and leather, pure man and something exotic, perhaps sandalwood, the whole laced with a trace of peat smoke.
Anonymous
#46. Getting to know ourselves and learning to control ourselves are the two great tasks of life. Don't make up strange and exotic 'penances.' Simply say no to yourself once a day, and you will be on the road to sanctity for the rest of your life.
Joan D. Chittister
#47. There are two phases of enjoyment in journeying through an unknown country - the eager phase of wondering interest in every detail, and the relaxed phase when one feels no longer an observer of the exotic, but a participator in the rhythm of daily life.
Dervla Murphy
#48. There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.
Chris Patten
#50. This was pretty exotic stuff for a telepathic barmaid from northern Louisiana.
Charlaine Harris
#51. As a young actor, I played a lot of 'exotic' parts and was stuck with the tag 'sultry.' I had to refuse such parts if I were ever to play anything else. It did the trick, but my agent feared it made me harder to cast.
Diana Quick
#52. If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.
Richard Eyre
#53. So Pat showed me a variety of exotic looks - from Russian princesses to Swedish maids. I looked at the images, slightly alarmed. There was no Lady Gaga to guide me.
Carrie Fisher
#55. Scuba Blue offers a feeling of escape as it is reminiscent of a tropical ocean. This stirring and energizing shade takes us off to an exotic paradise that is pleasant and inviting, even if only a fantasy.
Leatrice Eiseman
#56. When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories.
Kevin Henkes
#57. They don't go in for the fancy or exotic, but stick to conventional food like flightless bird embryos, minced organs in intestine skins, slices of hog flesh and burnt ground grass seeds dipped in animal fats; or, as it is known in their patois, egg, sausage, bacon and a fried slice of toast.
Terry Pratchett
#58. SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.
Patrick Califia-Rice
#59. When did the business community in America become so sensitive? ... that we have to treat like some type of rare exotic animal - don't startle them or they'll fly away! ... we need to soothe them so they can nest here and lay their magic eggs full of jobs! - WHICH NEVER HATCH BY THE WAY!!! ...
Bill Maher
#60. My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
Tony Judt
#61. these days of exotic splendour may stand out
in each lifetime like marble
mileposts in an alluvial land
W. H. Auden
#62. Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic.
Mark Romanek
#63. WITH FAMILIAR AND EXOTIC PRODUCE CROWDING THE SUPERMARKET SHELVES FROM JANUARY TO December and farmers' markets making a comeback throughout the country, it may
Anonymous
#64. But, Christ, there's a difference between exotic and foreign, isn't there? Exotic means you know how to use your foreignness, or you make yourself a little foreign in order to appear exotic. Real foreign is a little scary, believe me.
Bharati Mukherjee
#65. She's got the kind of exotic beauty I always dreamed about. But really, who cares about stuff like that anymore? Being pretty isn't going to keep my butt out of Omega's crosshairs.
Summer Lane
#66. What I liked about working with Palmbomen and him being a super crate digger and super well known with all this exotic and unfamiliar music to me.
Sam De Jong
#67. dark chocolate exists and we can love everything that is strange, different and exotic - the
Carlos Aleman
#68. I don't really know how it feels for an American to go to Mexico, but if you come from Germany, Mexico is a really exotic place. It has this laid back vibe, at least in the countryside, and things don't seem to be as over-civilized as they are here in Europe.
Apparat
#70. I think the opportunities are all over the place - around your corner or in more exotic locales. But everyone finding their own interest - sometimes it's hard to know what you're interested in, I think.
Natalie Portman
#71. Presence is not some exotic state that we need to search for or manufacture. In the simplest terms, it is the felt sense of wakefulness, openness, and tenderness that arises when we are fully here and now with our experience.
Tara Brach
#72. Exotic: meaning you're "desired."
For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness.
So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive.
Joyce Carol Oates
#73. That's the problem with revealing true truths. They make people uncomfortable. The truth should be grand and exotic, but mostly it isn't. Mostly it's uncomfortable.
Leslie Pietrzyk
#74. She was an exotic flower amongst the snowdrifts, out of place, a Technicolor misfit in a monochrome Christmas movie.
Thomm Quackenbush
#75. Two Confederate senators proposed a night attack on McClellan employing exotic tactics - "5000 [men] stripped naked to storm the camps of the enemy with the bayonet only & Kill everybody with clothes on.
William J. Cooper Jr.
#76. Hey bands, you're all welcome to fly me to some exotic location and I'll record you there, Y'know that right? You don't have to come to this God forsaken place. Hope I can visit you all in Australia one of these days that would be hot! We'll talk again soon.
Jim Diamond
#77. There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.
Emily Greene Balch
#78. America is like an exotic hothouse plant. It can only live now in the artificial environment of vaccinations, sterilization, and antibiotics we started creating a hundred or more years ago.
William R. Forstchen
#79. Maybe he's an exotic dancer. He must be used to walking around with that monstrosity dangling like that. Stop looking at it.
Monica La Porta
#80. I think the new ball is terrible. It's the worst decision some expert, whoever did it, made. It's terrible. It's like touching an exotic dancer and then going and touching a plastic blow-up doll. You know, it feels different.
Shaquille O'Neal
#81. My chin is weak. I find it hard to make decisions. For years I had been caught between the two stools of security on the land and rich-scented life on the exotic islands of literature.
I wasn't really a writer. I had seen a strange beautiful light on the hills and that was all.
Patrick Kavanagh
#82. I like things that are hand made - but personally for a man, I'm not interested in fashion that evolves with time. I like things to be the same. For a woman I think it's fantastic to have things that are different - it's like a flower where every season there's some new exotic bloom.
Roman Coppola
#83. You must be human ... how weirdly exotic and excitingly perverse.
Stephen King
#84. 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' is a British comedy-drama directed by John Madden. The film is based on the 2004 novel, 'These Foolish Things', by Deborah Moggach.
Tena Desae
#85. I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is always the most exotic place you'll ever encounter because it is the only place where you recognise how many secrets and mysteries there are in people's lives
David Malouf
#86. Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.
Thurston Moore
#87. Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and is not a hothouse plant or an exotic
William Hazlitt
#88. With live-action I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the Persepolis story. With live-action, it would have turned into a story of 'the Other' - people living in a distant land who don't look like us. It might have been exotic, but also a "Third-World" story.
Marjane Satrapi
#89. Jared told her he used to be an exotic dancer in San Francisco.'
'My body is a gift from God,' Jared said gravely. 'Except for my hips, which are clearly a gift from the devil.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#90. 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
#91. It was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source.
Ruth Reichl
#92. I don't have an insatiable desire to discover what makes something taste good or to find exotic combinations. I guess I'm not that bored.
Jim Gaffigan
#93. I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. 'Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.' First of all, my girl is black: she's Jamaican.
Kevin Hart
#94. They envy your youth. You two are like exotic creatures from the land of the young.'
I've never understood all that these-are-the-best-years-of-your-life crap. If this is as good as it gets then I might as well quit now. Let me get to the shimmery oasis of adulthood.
Leanne Hall
#95. Self-deception is an exotic theory, because it makes the paradoxical claim that something called "the self" can be both deceiver and deceived.
Steven Pinker
#96. Great,' I said. 'Visit exotic Australia. Get bitten by an exotic snake. Die exotically.
Steven Gould
#97. When I first arrived in Houston, I was fascinated with the elaborate styles of cowboy boots and thought they were incredibly exotic. They also seemed to be a central part of a specifically 'Texan' identity, one distinct from being 'American.'
Shahzia Sikander
#98. I think we could be friends," he said, falling into step with her. "It's perfect because I wouldn't fall in love with you, like I do with the mermaids. Girls always seem so exotic. But it would be okay with you, because you're more like ... you know. Not like a girl." He shrugged.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#100. Why? Were you hoping for something more exotic?"
My inner goddess pops her head above the parapet.
"Oh no. I've had enough exotic for one day."
Mr inner goddess pouts at me.
E.L. James
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