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Quotes About Exotic

This is the beauty of Rajasthan; everything is so picturesque.
~ Diana Penty
Pink is the navy blue of India.
~ Diana Vreeland
I'll never forget the modelling shoot I did in the Bahamas on a pink sand beach at Harbour Island. It felt like I'd just landed in paradise; it was so beautiful.
~ Olga Kurylenko
I once went to the Mayfair club Annabel's and the best thing about it was the Ladies. Perfumed air, exotic wallpaper, full-length mirrors - when you've had enough of the bustle, it's like having a rest in a boudoir: a female sanctuary.
~ Susanna Reid
I have definitely got more than a few pieces of cheetah in my wardrobe.
~ Marquise Goodwin
Florida's nice and warm, there's all sorts of stuff living there that shouldn't be there!
~ Jeremy Wade
The rush that you get from having a good night's sleep is so exotic: to feel powerful and clean, capable and potent, as opposed to washed up, impotent and mute.
~ Pete Doherty
My father was Bolivian, which makes me half-Bolivian. It's where I got some of my exotic features and certainly my skin tone.
~ Raquel Welch
Everyone has a dog or a cat... I just choose other animals.
~ George Hill
Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
Every week, I heave open a supermarket skip and find therein a more exotic shopping list of items than I could possibly have invented - Belgian chocolates, ripe bananas, almond croissants, stone-ground raisin bread - often so much it would have fed a hundred people.
~ Tristram Stuart
I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous.
~ John Malkovich
She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
~ Raymond Chandler
The air was thick, wet, steamy and larded with the cloying smell of tropical orchids in bloom.
~ Raymond Chandler
The place was horrible by daylight. The Chinese junk on the walls, the rug, the fussy lamp, the teakwood stuff, the sticky riot of colors, the totem pole, the flagon of ether and laudanum - all this in the daytime had a stealthy nastiness, like a fag party.
~ Raymond Chandler
He looked both a little bit dangerous and refined, like a ceremonial knife.
~ Julie Anne Long
New Orleans, though technically a city, is more like a nation unto itself; though legally a piece of America, it's Caribbean in its soul, as exotic an adventure as exists short of navigating the Amazon.
~ Julie Smith
Era mortificante pensar que otro hombre había descubierto ese exótico aspecto de su belleza que a mí se me había pasado por alto. Supongo que los maridos no son tan observadores, porque miran a sus esposas de una manera invariable.
~ Jun'ichir? Tanizaki
Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.
~ Mark Twain
My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.
~ Tony Goldwyn
I used to have lots of tigers. I had all sorts of exotic pets when I had some money. Before I was broke, I had everything. Pigeons and vultures, lions, tigers, and bears. I had it all.
~ Mike Tyson
It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets.
~ Tippi Hedren
Right," I said. "So the baboon, the crocodile…any other pets I should know about?" Amos thought for a moment. "Visible ones? No, I think that's it.
~ Rick Riordan
Furthermore, the initial page, always crucial, passed every test, with its promises and divisions, its portentous opening paragraph like the great door of a church, its exotic setting and strange names, the rolling orchestration of its prose.
~ William H. Gass