Exotic Quotes

Exotic or ordinary, glamorous or plain,
exciting or boring - it's all in our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is a great interest in comparative religion and
a desire to understand faiths other than our own and
even to experiment with exotic cults.
- Emily Greene Balch

I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep.
If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.
- Christina Aguilera

People's view of exotic or Asian women are changing.
It's much nicer to hear 'She's pretty' than 'She's pretty -
for an Asian woman.'
- Sung Hi Lee

People always like things that seem exotic.
- Jane Birkin

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious
philosophy for Americans,
whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.
- Thurston Moore

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time,
it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.
- Kazuo Ishiguro

I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people,
but not for me.
I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly
Navajos sitting on a bench.
I felt right at home.
- Tony Hillerman

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic:
the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums;
are,
wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.
- John Grierson

I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up,
and my part in that was not written for a Latina,
and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.
- Salma Hayek

I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater.
I was a brunette at that time.
I was always cast in all the exotic parts.
- Loni Anderson

I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle,
with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant.
So we got married and had three children.
- Dominic Chianese

Join the army. Visit strange and exotic places.
Meet fascinating people. And kill them.
- Anonymous

I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer,
but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.
- Sasha Alexander

I was in school studying civil engineering.
A guy approached me on the street and said that I had
a interesting look-very exotic.
He told me I should try to be in the industry.
- Thuy Trang

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all
trades and Master of the Dominican Order,
I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.
- Timothy Radcliffe

If there is an exotic woman it's always a terrorist role.
- Persis Khambatta

If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo,
then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location,
and the story's about this British journalist.
- Michael Winterbottom

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a
fascination for exotic far off places;
I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.
- Peter Agre

It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic
the more people started doing him.
I don't know why, but there's just something about
Al Gore that makes me laugh.
- Dana Carvey

If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight,
fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and
reality the chance to be exotic.
- Richard Eyre

I love being in my garden.
I don't plant a lot of exotic flora,
but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.
- Jacqueline Bisset

I think the U.K.
is too small to write about from within it and still
make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.
- Mark Haddon

I don't enjoy traveling in America.
I don't like the food, the cars.
It is not exotic enough.
It all tastes a bit like airline food.
- Carla Bley

Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years,
and the exotic is much more acceptable.
There are many artists now, younger artists,
who work out of the exotic.
- Anish Kapoor

Redheads get so stereotyped.
You're either exotic and wild or totally Victorian.
- Alicia Witt

Hey bands, you're all welcome to fly me to some exotic
location and I'll record you there,
Y'know that right? You don't have to come to this God forsaken place.
Hope I can visit you all in Australia one of these days that would be hot!
We'll talk again soon.
- Jim Diamond

I had been to New Mexico many times.
I loved it.
It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment.
I don't know if I could live there all year.
It's such an intense place.
- Campbell Scott

I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings.
I don't know why that is.
I think order is dull.
There is something about this kind of desire for order,
particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures,
that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic,
amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can,
basically, develop.
- Malcolm Mclaren

We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to,
and because we actually rather like the place:
we've always enjoyed doing it before.
We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK,
so most years we just play on the mainland,
with the occasional exotic detour.
- Andrew Eldritch

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave.
In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves,
not the imitated behavior of everyday actions,
not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet,
but something of the miracle that is a human being.
- Martha Graham

We've carried that over into the visual development as well.
We've designed quite an exotic cast of characters,
but the last thing we want is to dictate to the players
how their PCs should look.
What we want to do is inspire.
- Sam Wood

A hero is an ordinary individual
who finds the strength to persevere
and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
- Christopher Reeve

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

On the ordinary view of each species
having been independently created,
we gain no scientific explanation.
- Charles Darwin

Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates

Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
- Jimmy Johnson

When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin

The opportunity for greater courage
comes in the most ordinary of moments.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

There are no extraordinary men...
just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
- William Halsey

More than any other in Western Europe,
Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think
twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.
- Joseph Lelyveld

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary,
great minds with the ordinary.
- Blaise Pascal

Reality doesn't impress me.
I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy,
and when ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another.
No more walls.
- Anais Nin

Ordinary life does not interest me.
I seek only the high moments.
I am in accord with the surrealists,
searching for the marvelous.
- Anais Nin

I believed in myself.
I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
- Imran Khan

I am a plain ordinary magnificent creation of God,
just like every other plain ordinary
mountain, ocean, tree, animal, and human.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.
Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions,
all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
- Paul Engle

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things,
but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
- Dean Stanley

It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life,
and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.
- Anne Tyler

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing
birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.
- Lawrence Hargrave

We're all pretty ordinary on paper.
- Michael Bergin

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
- Jim Rohn

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet,
but they will.
Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.
- Michael Crichton

There are certain things that ordinary people have
that celebrities don't have.
- Norman Spinrad

Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA -
ordinary citizens don't need guns,
as their having guns doesn't serve the State.
- Heinrich Himmler

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes:
one must make them when one reflects;
and whatever you may say,
I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A miracle is nothing more or less than this...
Anyone who has come into a knowledge
of his true identity,
of his oneness with
the all-pervading wisdom and power,
this makes it possible for laws higher
than the ordinary mind knows of
to be revealed to him.
- Ralph Waldo Trine

I adopt a very simple approach.
I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people
and sooner or later that raises a laugh.
- Alberto Sordi

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men.
Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
- Blaise Pascal

One can build from ordinary stone a humble house or the finest chateau.
- Leon N. Cooper

I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary
mundane obligations of life.
- Martha Reeves

The government I led gave ordinary people peace,
security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
- Benazir Bhutto

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
- Bennett Cerf

I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
- Bernie Mac

Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the
exact logic of any expression of ordinary language;
for ordinary language has no exact logic.
- Peter Frederick Strawson

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris,
for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused,
so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.
- Harry Houdini

I don't work at being ordinary.
- Paul McCartney

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