Quotes about Exotic

I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures. Votes: 4

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place. Votes: 4

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. Votes: 4

Exotic dancers, your instant key to a blissful vacation of the moment. Votes: 3

I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself. Votes: 3

Exotic: meaning you're "desired." For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness. So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Exotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles - the trappings of religion - confuse as much as they help. They endorse the assumption of the existence of an elite whose explicit commitment grants them implicit extraordinariness. Votes: 3

Exotic novelty. My statement to [people] is always, well, set this picture in your home town, is it still an interesting picture? Or is it just exotic? Would I care about this same picture minus its exoticism? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Evan ran his finger across the faded leather spines. He laughed at how silly some of the names were: Paint Your Roses Red, Edelweiss and Me, World of Mushrooms and Fungi, The Toadstool Diaries, Daffodils Unseen and Exotic Plants Unleashed, to name but a few. Votes: 3

People always like things that seem exotic. Votes: 2

If there is an exotic woman it's always a terrorist role. Votes: 2

An exotic birthplace on its own is not informative of anything. Votes: 2

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. Votes: 2

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion. Votes: 2

I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting. Votes: 2

Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations. Votes: 2

Most gravity has no known origin. Is it some exotic particle? Nobody knows. Is dark energy responsible for expansion of the universe? Nobody knows. Votes: 2

I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts. Votes: 2

I dont enjoy traveling in America. I dont like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children. Votes: 2

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods. Votes: 2

Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box. Votes: 2

It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic. Votes: 2

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal. Votes: 2

I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry. Votes: 2

Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic Votes: 2

We have a lion, tiger, liger, which is the father is a lion and the mother is a tiger, black and spotted leopard, mountain lion, Asian leopard cats. Weve got a tremendous number of the exotic feline. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home. Votes: 2

A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology. Votes: 2

I have pets, but they're the really ordinary sort - yellow Labrador, tabby cat, white rabbit, a few goldfish - that kind of stuff. Nothing very... extravagant or unusual or exotic, but I find, in terms of inspiration, Mother Nature is just it. Votes: 2

The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel. Votes: 2

When very large stars die, they create temperatures so high that protons begin to fuse in all sorts of exotic combinations, to form all the elements of the periodic table. If, like me, you're wearing a gold ring, it was forged in a supernova explosion. Votes: 2

Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and endless, tedious detail. The notes that accompanied them revealed they had inspired in the original recipients everything from mild irritation to absolute rage. Votes: 2

Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature. Votes: 2

If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you're seen as portraying it in a negative light - it also seems to be a popular way to present India, sort of mangoes and beggars. Votes: 2

I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend. Votes: 2

My mother was born in Burma, but my grandfather on her side was Indian-Spanish. So I have this quite exotic mix, which is reflected in my earliest memories, in our Wiltshire country kitchen, of gran, and aunts, cooking spicy stewy, casseroley curries, a version of Indian food with a Burmese twist. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop. Votes: 2

The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself - leads to elevator cabs inlaid with exotic woods in fanciful patterns. The entire route from street to office is invested with ceremony, dignity, and delight. Votes: 2

The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destruction and loss of them. Parents, siblings, children, the death of parents, family tension... these are monumental things. They struck me as being interesting to write about. I didn't have a very exotic life, but all this stuff happened to me. Votes: 2

I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home. Votes: 2

Calling something exotic emphasizes its distance from the reader. We don't refer to things as exotic if we think of them as ordinary. We call something exotic if it's so different that we see no way to emulate it or understand how it came to be. We call someone exotic if we aren't especially interested in viewing them as people - just as objects representing their culture. Votes: 2

An exotic and irrational entertainment. Votes: 0

Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth. Votes: 0

Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada. Votes: 0

They own a shop of exotic jam. Votes: 0

Well, I'm certainly not Ragnor Fell the exotic dancer. Votes: 0

Assassin?...that sounds so exotic...i was just a murderer Votes: 0

And what exotic part of the world do you come from? Votes: 0

The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one. Votes: 0

[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar. Votes: 0

Sandra Kasturi's magical poems transform the ordinary into the surreal and exotic. Votes: 0

Redheads get so stereotyped. Youre either exotic and wild or totally Victorian. Votes: 0

Redheads get so stereotyped. You're either exotic and wild or totally Victorian. Votes: 0

She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life. Votes: 0

London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour. Votes: 0

Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic. Votes: 0

For me exotic means beaches, palm trees and sand and frolicking in the ocean Votes: 0

An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed. Votes: 0

Everyone is so weird in L.A. that if you're somewhat normal, it's exotic. Votes: 0

It's the same mysterious exotic oriental fragrance as what the Beatles get off on. Votes: 0

Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society. Votes: 0

Great,' I said. 'Visit exotic Australia. Get bitten by an exotic snake. Die exotically. Votes: 0

All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most. Votes: 0

Mammals are very close to us, but bugs are strange. They're more mysterious and exotic. Votes: 0

Girls are like exotic birds. They are pretty to look at but hard to catch. Votes: 0

What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home. Votes: 0

And if we never visit Paris, that's okay. Your heart is my exotic destination every day. Votes: 0

I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic. Votes: 0

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. Votes: 0

I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things. Votes: 0

Of all the exotic aromas and experiences from my sojourn in Ethiopia, it’s the frankincense I miss most. Votes: 0

We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control. Votes: 0

She was an exotic flower amongst the snowdrifts, out of place, a Technicolor misfit in a monochrome Christmas movie. Votes: 0

There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder. Votes: 0

The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape. Votes: 0

I am always at home even when I am traveling to exotic places because this world is my home. Votes: 0

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki. Votes: 0

While I was watching you, exotic words drifted across the mirror of my mind as summer clouds drift across the sky. Votes: 0

As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it. Votes: 0

Accents are very sexy. American girls who speak French are very attractive to a Frenchman. Anything exotic or different is attractive. Votes: 0

That's the magic of filmmaking, to draw the audience into an exotic world and keep them there and keep the suspense. Votes: 0

I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name. Votes: 0

I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert. Votes: 0

There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover. Votes: 0

It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose. Votes: 0

Well sure, who doesn't need a boyfriend? but realistically, those exotic creatures are hard to come by. At least a quality one. Votes: 0

If I am going somewhere exotic, I take an empty suitcase with me to bring back the objects I fall in love with. Votes: 0

You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. "”Tybalt Votes: 0

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. Votes: 0

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.' Votes: 0

Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise. Votes: 0

When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories. Votes: 0

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience. Votes: 0

If you are going to a destination where the food might be more exotic than usual, always err on the side of caution. Votes: 0

I like exotic guys who have a lot of sexual energy. I drive army tanks and I snowboard, so he has to keep up. Votes: 0

Patterns drawn in ultraviolet might make those ordinary little petals into the exotic peacocks of the botanical world, and yet we cannot appreciate them. Votes: 0

One of the easiest forms of pretense to break down is the pretense of enthusiasm for exotic foods. Just bring on the exotic foods. Votes: 0

Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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.' Votes: 0

I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings. Votes: 0

In Indiana, I wasn't anything special. But in New York, I've gone out with girls with purple hair who go out with me because I'm exotic! Votes: 0

The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about repression and internal angst. Votes: 0

We...we could be friends.' We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not. Votes: 0

I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic. Votes: 0

You can be living in a big house, driving a nice car, going on exotic vacations and still be empty inside, crippled with fear and dread. Votes: 0

Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of - the end of the world - and I knew I would go there one day. Votes: 0

I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food. Votes: 0

What I don't want to do is to go and buy a bunch of exotic-looking drums and set up an Afrikanische Musik in New York City. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

...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. Votes: 0

Tai chi does not mean oriental wisdom or something exotic. It is the wisdom of your own senses, your own mind and body together as one process. Votes: 0

It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We went to Mexico, had some tequlia, eloped with a pair of drug smugglers, and took part-time jobs as exotic dancers. You know, same old, same old. Votes: 0

I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in. Votes: 0

A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic. Votes: 0

My name is actually quite a popular name in Scotland. People elsewhere always think it's far more exotic than it is. In Scotland, it's a common name. Votes: 0

I just had the idea that all the covergirls should be gorgeous, and not just interesting, not beautiful in an offbeat or exotic way, just plain yummy gorgeous. Votes: 0

If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's about this British journalist. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's exotic for me to be given a script that's already written, and be given a pay cheque, and asked to dress up and play, and that's all. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual. Votes: 0

For groups like the Rolling Stones names like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf were exotic inspirations. For Siegel-Schwall they were the guys that played with them on 43rd Street. Votes: 0

Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking. Votes: 0

Typically I see it with photographers who go to a place like India or Nepal, and everything's so colorful and exotic and they think, therefore, a picture's been taken. Votes: 0

I'm like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can wonder about the sensuous delights of the dish, but they can't afford such an expensive luxury Votes: 0

It's a lot more common now for someone to know a Mormon rather than just know of Mormons out in Utah, ... We seem more normal. We're not as exotic. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense. Votes: 0

Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. Human-rearing gets them used to and sometimes imprinted on humans, which makes them potentially dangerous. Votes: 0

A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living. Votes: 0

Who knew Demon Child would have such a normal name? I expected something exotic like Serena or Destiny or the Evil One That Comes in the Night to Make Us Chilly. Votes: 0

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 travelling to distant lands Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful. Votes: 0

Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive". Votes: 0

I did not know the woman I would be nor that blood would bloom in me each month like an exotic flower, nor that children, two monuments, would break from between my legs.... Votes: 0

The future's come and gone; it's a thing of the past. That once impossibly exotic expression 'the year 2000,' for so long evocative of silver suits and robots in pinnies, now feels antiquated. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The lowlights... Sometimes you're away from home quite a lot, which can be difficult. It's not first class all the way, you don't stay in exotic hotels and have people running after you. Votes: 0

My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me. Votes: 0

Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

The little black dress must be luxurious, rich, sensual, diaphanous, exotic, severe, lush, demure, demanding, frivolous, amusing, and it must linger in memory, but above all, it must be simple and little and black. Votes: 0

Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there was still always rice, just in case you needed a little rice fix. Votes: 0

You don't have to do something exotic to enjoy the benefits of natural healing agents. So many things in your kitchen - common spices, common herbs and foods - have powerful healing agents as well. Votes: 0

Logan didn't know what he'd been expecting to see- maybe some ground-up powder or specially aged cocoa beans from an exotic island. Instead, he saw their faces, full of anticipation, staring back up at him. Votes: 0

The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of illness with the foreign with an exotic, often primitive place. Votes: 0