Sandra Kasturi's magical poems transform the ordinary into…

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