Gamelan instruments are exotic and mysterious.

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

I have been interested in the dialogue of abstraction and modernist painting - and the rich history of the grid. I also think I…

— Stephen Beal

Slum children eat crow's eggs for nutrition yet nobody respects this common bird. It's the exotic birds which fascinate all.

— Vetrimaaran

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…

— Marjane Satrapi

SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of…

— Anonymous

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

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…

— Ray Metzker