Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Most gravity has no known origin. Is it some exotic particle? Nobody knows. Is dark energy responsible for expansion of the universe? Nobody knows.

All of its dimensions, in fact, are similar to the other mesas. It's not exotic in any way.

People from up North, they still want exotic flowers, they want color. A lot of natives people just don't think they're pretty.

What we need is some pass rush production. Whether that's a pass rusher or some exotic new schemes, which probably we're not going to have those. So we're going to try to get us a pass-rush rusher to help us improve our sack production.

Russell Crowe

I don't really take vacations because when I'm working, it's usually in a far-flung, exotic place somewhere. But I have a farm in Australia I like to go back to when I'm at home and not working.

We will be removing exotic plants at Fortress Rosecrans as well as on the greenway near the Overall Street trailhead,

The response by the fauna and flora has just been incredible. With the removal of exotic vegetation, native plant communities responded very, very well.

Alicia Witt

Redheads get so stereotyped. Youre either exotic and wild or totally Victorian.

Thomas Pynchon

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 ever more exotic surfaces, hyperboloidial and even stranger, eventually including what we must term ‘imaginary’ shapes (which some preferred to term invisible).

Ruth Reichl

...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 their source.

Marie Brennan

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

Mark Rothko

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 the strange and unfamiliar, not everything strange or unfamiliar is transcendental.

Michael Crichton

As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing states of consciousness will cease to have a threatening or exotic aspect.

John Malkovich

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.

Home prices are going through the roof, forcing people to turn to exotic loans and unorthodox financing. These people have no room for error.

Frank Zappa

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

Martin Parr

Most of us, when we go out with a camera in our own country, try to find exotic subject matter to photograph.

Richard Mead

People here tend to travel, so they recognize exotic foods and tend to be more willing to try new dishes, ... One of the things you notice is that diners know what they like.

Matthew McConaughey

such an exotic underworld that we know a little about, but not much. I've wanted to explore it for a while." ()

Jeff Probst

I was thinking about retiring and spending my time traveling to exotic locations around the world, meeting new and interesting people. Then I realized, uh, wait a second, I'm already doing that with 'Survivor' and getting paid for it, as well.

Comets are thought to be icy dirtballs made up of exotic ices, dust, and rock particles,

Martin Charnin

I was looking for an interesting story and exceptionally exotic characters,

Tristram Stuart

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.

Kevin Hart

I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. 'Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.' First of all, my girl is black: she's Jamaican.

It's going to be the most exotic place we've ever seen. We've never landed on the surface of an icy satellite. We know from our pictures that there are very different kinds of geological processes.

Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me.

I like exotic guys who have a lot of sexual energy. I drive army tanks and I snowboard, so he has to keep up.

We can't read this stuff because it's so early. It's even more exotic looking than the known Mayan glyphs.

Prince Philip

And what exotic part of the world do you come from?

Tara Brach

Presence is not some exotic state that we need to search for or manufacture. In the simplest terms, it is the felt sense of wakefulness, openness, and tenderness that arises when we are fully here and now with our experience.

Werner Herzog

I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.

Samuel Johnson

An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed.