Top 1200 Exotic Places Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I don't like real places, but I don't like imagined ones either. I feel like I'm looking for some mixture and it's very hard for me to say because I like to use real place names because there's an uncanny feeling to them, but at the same time I don't ever really try to make them plausible. Sometimes I like to use them as a way to hide in plain sight a little bit, because to me a very exotic or imagined setting has a lot of weight and a lot of burden to it, and it doesn't suit me, but a real place seems to have its own weird legacy, so I don't know what the choice is?

We've played all sorts of weird and wonderful places. You do all kinds of venues from heavy metal places in Germany to big ornate churches, and everything in between.

I absolutely adore sweets, especially the exotic variety, and am a fanatical chocoholic.

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

Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation.

I don't have a sponsor or come from an exotic country where I can bring tonnes of money.

I never came out to the Hamptons when I was younger - it was always a fancy and exotic place.

Of all the exotic aromas and experiences from my sojourn in Ethiopia, it’s the frankincense I miss most.

It is clearly not the journey for everyone. People succeed in as many ways as there are people. Some can be completely fulfilled with destinations that are much closer to home and more comfortable. But if you long to keep going, then I hope you are able to follow my lead to the places I have gone. To within a whisper of your own personal perfection. To places that are sweeter because you worked so hard to arrive there. To places at the very edge of your dreams.

For me, places are articulations of 'natural' and social relations, relations that are not fully contained within the place itself. So, first, places are not closed or bounded - which, politically, lays the ground for critiques of exclusivity. Second, places are not 'given' - they are always in open-ended process. They are in that sense 'events'. Third, they and their identity will always be contested (we could almost talk about local-level struggles for hegemony).

There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - let us pray that we may always know it!

As soon as I came to L.A., I was told that I was exotic. I'd think, But I'm from Miami! I'm as American as a cheeseburger!

London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.

Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.

I'm able to actually choose places to go which have intrigued me for the last god knows how many years, and Tasmania's always been one of those places.

Sandra Kasturi's magical poems transform the ordinary into the surreal and exotic.

You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. —Tybalt

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.

There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

For me exotic means beaches, palm trees and sand and frolicking in the ocean

I always like to find those little mom-and-pop sandwich places, or diners. Those are my favorite kind of places.

As far as a wall is concerned, the experts actually say that in some places a wall is necessary, in other places a double wall is necessary, and in other places that a wall wouldn't help. So I'm for whatever it takes to secure our border with Mexico. We've got to do it. I'm for then enforcing our laws.

I'm interested in going places that I haven't been. And I'm interesting in working with people that I feel are dangerous and sort of push me in different places.

UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.

Ultimately, what interests me is using exotic sounds in my songs.

Mammals are very close to us, but bugs are strange. They're more mysterious and exotic.

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

It's the same mysterious exotic oriental fragrance as what the Beatles get off on.

I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.

Girls are like exotic birds. They are pretty to look at but hard to catch.

There are good places to play and bad places.

I'm from the East Coast, and so therefore, the Pacific Northwest forest is very exotic land to me.

I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.

It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.

And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world where misfits were welcome.

Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and where folks out of a job search for community.

I found it difficult when I first started to travel around the world as a footballer. Hotels go from places you are excited to stay in to places you get tired of pretty quickly.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places that you love with both are called 'libraries'

Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home.

I love the pressure of knowing the latest trends, the newest places to go, and hot cities - places like Monaco and Ibiza.

'Babel' is a continuation of a project; it's not like now we are more theatrical. We've grown up, seen places, been places, and that is shown in this album.

As an adult, I have got few chances to visit Delhi's places such as Chandni Chowk or Janakpuri, but my connection to these places is still strong, as I would go there as a child.

Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.

But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places.

I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.

More traditional guitar, bass, drums - it's not something completely natural to me. It's, in a way, exotic.

In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs.

Just because you have an exotic animal as a pet does not make you a danger or irresponsible.

I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to the most amazing places. When I got older, I realized that I couldn't find books that took me to all of the places I wanted to go. To go to those places, I had to write some books myself.

There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover.

She had lived in that house fourteen years, and every year she had demanded of John that she be given a pet of some strange exotic breed. Not that she did not have enough animals. She had collected several wild and broken animals that, in a way, had become exotic by their breaking. Their roof would have collapsed from the number of birds who might have lived there if the desert hadn't killed three- quarters of those that tried to cross it. Still every animal that came within a certain radius of that house was given a welcome-the tame, the half born, the wild, the wounded.

Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic.

There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.

I'm really excited about the places I've gone and the places I'm going, internally and externally speaking, and working to bring different spectrums of curiosity to life.

The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.