An exotic and irrational entertainment.

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

— Samuel Johnson

Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination…

— Samuel Johnson

This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, Doc, my brother’s crazy. He thinks he’s a chicken. The doctor says, Well, why don’t you…

— Woody Allen

Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though philosophers like…

— Robert Graves

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to…

— Mark Twain

I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but…

— Mark Twain

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

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

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

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