Quotes about Exotic

His stories are so Eastern

Dedan was your merchant in saddlecloths for riding.

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines—

Once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.

It wasn't a matter of conscious choice, necessarily, just a matter of gravitational pull, the way integration always worked, a one-way street. The minority assimilated into the dominant culture, not the other way around. Only white culture could be neutral and objective. Only white culture could be nonracial, willing to adopt the occasional exotic into its ranks.

Familia: these are some of the exotic items Jill's shopping brings into the house. Her cooking tastes to him of things he never had: candlelight, saltwater, health fads, wealth, class. Jill's family had a servant, and it takes her some nights to understand that dirtied dishes do not clear and clean themselves by magic, but have to be carried and washed.

Australia is a wild place.

I like to go to Mauritius on holiday.

I've a rare Turkish swimming cat.