Exotic Quotes
218 Exotic quotes by 205 unique authors
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I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people.…
— Vince Vaughn
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Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It's exotic to me. I like they way Asians project their…
— Paz Vega
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Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. Human-rearing gets them used to and sometimes imprinted on…
— Frans de Waal
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The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic…
— Martin Filler
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Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
— Oscar Wilde
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what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's…
— Bill McKibben
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The romantics were prompted to seek exotic subjects and to travel to far off places. They failed to realize that, though the transcendental must involve…
— Mark Rothko
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But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish…
— Thomas Pynchon
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...it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to…
— Ruth Reichl
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Collect adventures and experiences to reminisce about…go to far places, meet new people, eat exotic foods, enjoy all varieties of women, look on unfamiliar landscapes,…
— Gary Jennings
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God, you Jews are truly exotic." Exotic? She should only know the Greenblatts. Or Mr. and Mrs. Milton Sharpstein, my father's friends. Or for that…
— Woody Allen
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But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries…
— Sidney Poitier
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Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones,…
— Francesca Lia Block
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To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to…
— Augusten Burroughs
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London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.
— Laura Fraser
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Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the…
— Miriam Toews
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We...we could be friends.' We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.
— Neil Gaiman
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India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it,…
— Thrity Umrigar
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October— You were sleeping so peacefully that I was loath to wake you. Duke Torquill, after demanding to know what I was doing in your…
— Mira Grant
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When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility…
— Tom Stoppard
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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
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Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows…
— Jodi Picoult
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You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. —Tybalt
— Mira Grant
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Exotic: meaning you're "desired." For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness. So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Who Wrote These Exotic Quotes
205 authors contributed a total of 218 Exotic Quotes, led by these top contributors: