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Quotes About Tropical

So you and the lovely Agent Scully are going down to investigate?' Frohike said, sounding hopeful. 'Yeah, we leave for Cancun tomorrow.' 'Our tax dollars at work,' Langly snorted. 'I'd love to see Agent Scully with a healthy tropical tan,' Frohike said. 'Down, Frohike,' Mulder said.
~ Kevin J. Anderson
You're like one of those birds from the Summer Isles, aren't you? A pretty little talking bird, repeating all the pretty little words they taught you to recite.
~ George R.R. Martin
Na sredini je nizak šedervan ?ija voda ne šiklja uvis, nego se posle kratkog uspona vra?a, opta?e mramornu jabuku, i pada u okrugli basen. Tako taj šedrvan ne vra?a oko onim nemo?nim naporom vode koja se penje što više može pa se onda ruši, daju?i nepanu sliku umora i pada po neumoljivom zakonu, nego izgleda kao krupan tropski cvet koji se pri vrhu rastvara i ukazuje srebrnu ponutricu, a niti vene niti docvetava.
~ Ivo Andri?
The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and really smell the people, and the mud and the molasses, and every kind of tropical exhalation with your nose suddenly removed from the dry ices of a Northern winter.
~ Jack Kerouac
The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and really smell the people, and mud, and molasses, and every kind of tropical exhalation with your nose suddenly removed from the dry ices of a Northern winter. We bounced in our seats.
~ Jack Kerouac
i recommend the phrase 'pineapple ass
~ Tao Lin
It would be an idyllic tropical paradise if not for the malaria, the insects, the constant diarrhea and resulting hemorrhoids, and the fact that the people are dirty and smell bad and eat each other and use human heads for decoration.
~ Neal Stephenson
Author's Notes] As I write this, September 2002, much about the humpback song is still unknown. (Although scientists do know that it tends to be found in the New Age music section, as well as in tropical waters...)
~ Christopher Moore
The air was electric with sounds—bugs, birds, monkeys—and the sky was the color of fresh blood. A tangerine sun played hide-and-seek through the trees.
~ Kristin Hannah
El invierno del trópico es época primaveral. Lo que se planta, crece aceleradamente. Las semillas excitadas por el repique de la lluvia constante sobre la tierra se ablandan y germinan bebiendo de las correntadas los nutrientes de la vegetación que el viento del verano depositó en la superficie y tornó en abono. Managua es una ciudad que se inunda en el invierno".
~ Gioconda Belli
the sun, which had been slipping into the far-off waterline of the horizon, took the last few degrees of its plunge and disappeared with tropical suddenness, leaving them only the fading blue of the sky.
~ Gordon R. Dickson
Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.
~ Nathaniel Parker Willis
Florida: America's hot, moist land-wang.
~ Chuck Wendig
sunlight skims off the cocktail's frothy top like a Hawaiian horizon,
~ Guillermo del Toro
Elisa believes this creature is accustomed to much larger gestures: full-body tumbles within seething seas; darting attacks; unfolding to full height beneath a tropical sun.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Her hair smelled like the Caribbean.
~ James Lee Burke
You know what death smells like? Fish blood that someone has buried in a garden of night-blooming flowers. Or a field mortuary during the monsoon season in a tropical country right after the power generators have failed. Or the buckets that the sugar-worker whores used to pour into the rain ditches behind their cribs on Sunday morning. If that odor comes to you on the wind or in your sleep, you tend to take special notice of your next sunrise.
~ James Lee Burke
The water, the surf, the colors on the shore. You think they make the beauty of the tropical sea, aye, lad? They do not. 'Tis the knowledge of what lurks below the surface of it, that awful-looking thing, as you call it, that carries death with every move that it makes. So it is, so it is with all beauty.
~ James M. Cain
Mango is always a staple in my household.
~ Ayesha Curry
The dolphin (dorado), which is a brilliantly colored tropical fish, must not be confused with the creature, also called dolphin, which is a small, toothed whale.
~ Thor Heyerdahl
For the rest of the day all I could think about was that precious fruit. The mango, that is.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
A strip club is one of the few places where two groups voluntarily come together who have such precipitous contrasts in net worth and familiarity with violence, each group with a head-and-shoulders edge in one category. The basic math of a tropical storm.
~ Tim Dorsey
Malay Devletleri'ndeki palm ya?? tarlalar?nda çal??an i?çiler aras?nda, endemik tropikal tifüs vakalar? yo?un gözükmektedir, ki buralar s?çanlar?n da yo?un oldu?u yerlerdir.
~ Hans Zinsser
The assassin wore only a Speedo and his lean body was slathered with sunscreen that made him smell like a baked coconut.
~ Lee Goldberg