Presence is not some exotic state that we need to search for or manufacture. In the simplest terms, it is the felt… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Patterns drawn in ultraviolet might make those ordinary little petals into the exotic peacocks of the botanical world, and yet we cannot… — Victoria Finlay Copy Share Image
It's a lot more common now for someone to know a Mormon rather than just know of Mormons out in Utah, ...… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
In Indiana, I wasn't anything special. But in New York, I've gone out with girls with purple hair who go out with… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
A surprising feature of herbal research is that it is seldom the rare, exotic, and beautiful plant that proves the most interesting;… — Euell Gibbons Copy Share Image
Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I have been interested in the dialogue of abstraction and modernist painting - and the rich history of the grid. I also… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When somebody else calls you exotic, exotic is a box - it's the stereotype of snake charmers and face jewelry. You're just… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
Advertisers like that because they want you to feel their product isn't normal - this perfume isn't normal, this set of lingerie… — Cary Cooper Copy Share Image
But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I don't really know how it feels for an American to go to Mexico, but if you come from Germany, Mexico is… — Apparat Copy Share Image
Nick swore he'd die with this boots on, on some exotic safari, but he found his Kilimanjaro in a hospital on Earth,… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
My chin is weak. I find it hard to make decisions. For years I had been caught between the two stools of… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
I have lots of ambitions. I'd love to do theatre. I'd like to be in 'Tea With Mussolini 2;' I'd like to… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
What I liked about working with Palmbomen and him being a super crate digger and super well known with all this exotic… — Sam de Jong Copy Share Image
If you look back at history, the various Maharajas of the Indian empire actually helped support a whole British industry. The royalty… — Mark Shand Copy Share Image
“All the things that seemed so exotic and exciting – cars, television, the fashions, the music, the buildings – were just surface.… — Dave Hutchinson Copy Share Image
The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Erotic: meaning you're "desired." For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness. So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I think the opportunities are all over the place - around your corner or in more exotic locales. But everyone finding their… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
I got bored and then joined the British SAS. It was five very exciting years of my life, and then I'd always… — Lewis Pugh Copy Share Image
It's exotic for me to be given a script that's already written, and be given a pay cheque, and asked to dress… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an… — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's… — Alexander Wang Copy Share Image
Most gravity has no known origin. Is it some exotic particle? Nobody knows. Is dark energy responsible for expansion of the universe?… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I did not know the woman I would be nor that blood would bloom in me each month like an exotic flower,… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the… — Teresa Mummert Copy Share Image
Wormholes don't exist because the only way they would exist is if they were seeded with exotic material created by an intelligence… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There are two phases of enjoyment in journeying through an unknown country - the eager phase of wondering interest in every detail,… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
We...we could be friends.' We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees Excerpt from To Kiss a King by… — Grace Willows Copy Share Image
You can be living in a big house, driving a nice car, going on exotic vacations and still be empty inside, crippled… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
But, Christ, there's a difference between exotic and foreign, isn't there? Exotic means you know how to use your foreignness, or you… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
It's been such a huge part of my life, it's hard for me to separate it out. All I can say is… — Barbara Broccoli Copy Share Image
