She had never yet encountered a personage so exotic, and…

“The presence of another person derails my thoughts; I dream of the other's presence with a strange absent-mindedness that no amount of my analytical…

— Fernando Pessoa

“In one marijuana experience, my informant became aware of the presence and, in a strange way, the in-appropriateness of this silent "watcher," who responds…

— Anonymous

“I found it very difficult to feel easy around the guy, even once I'd got used to the shock of his presence. It's a…

— Alan Moore

“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the year, by…

— Henry James

“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had…

— Henry James

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…

— Genesis Rodriguez

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

— Anatol Rapoport

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

— Rebecca Wells

As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of…

— Michael Crichton

We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my…

— Shereen El Feki

Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is, as so…

— Donald Davidson

Hey Sydney," she said, giving me a small, crooked smile as she entered the room. Her flashing, dark eyes were friendly, but they were…

— Richelle Mead

Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject… [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner…

— Susan Sontag

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

— John Updike

You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all…

— Ken Jennings