Tropical Decor Quotes

My wife and I battle over home decor. My style goes from Gothic to Baroque. Hers is minimalist. ~ Joe Bastianich

I am a tropical black man. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character. ~ Charles Baudelaire

I'm not really a tropical paradise kind of person. ~ Matthew Fox

Whoever we love, she or he is always under the bright spotlight on our stage and anything else is just a decor under the dimness! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere. ~ Ezra Stiles

Trend analyses for extreme tropical cyclones are unreliable because of operational changes that have artificially resulted in more intense tropical cyclones being recorded, casting severe doubts on any such trend linkages to global warming. ~ Christopher Landsea

The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable. ~ Robert K. Merton

Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

I love whenever they downgrade a hurricane to a tropical depression, because I always think of a tropical depression as how I feel three songs into a Jimmy Buffett concert. ~ Andy Kindler

I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest. ~ Dasha Zhukova

Redwood rainforest has five to 10 times the biomass - that's the sheer weight of living material - of, say, deep tropical rainforest in the Amazon basin. ~ Richard Preston

Ideas are like bananas. That bananas grow only in tropical regions doesn't make them any less delicious in Scandinavia. ~ Eric Weiner

I want to visit the snow in Antarctica before global warming turns it into a tropical paradise. ~ Steven Magee

We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state of the skies and the appearance of our dwellings can never on their own underwrite our joy nor condemn us to misery. ~ Alain De Botton

When I go on a holiday to a tropical place, I'll spray tan before I go. ~ Michael Douglas

Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program. ~ Adam Gopnik

It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear. ~ Bill Gates

The hurricanes are following the tropical ocean temperature. The tropical ocean temperature is following the Northern Hemisphere. And it's very hard now to believe that there's anything natural about that. ~ Kerry Emanuel

It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air. ~ Tim Cahill

If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair? ~ Karen Marie Moning

Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines. ~ Chang-rae Lee

Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish. ~ Raymond Chandler

You have these 'hot towers', tropical storm clouds acting like chimneys to carry heat to the upper atmosphere. ~ Peter May

The cheapest and most efficient way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore the forests, particularly the tropical forests ~ Jane Goodall

China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main market for rhino horn. Tigers are being killed for tiger bone wine. They're driving the tropical timber trade and illegal logging in Indonesia, and the trade in tropical reef fish. ~ Mark Carwardine

In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla. ~ Diane Ackerman

He nuzzled my neck, inhaling deeply. "Mmm. You smell so good."

"Oh, yeah," I said, smirking. "I call this new perfume 'Le Jungle grime et tropical BO.' "

"Dirt and sweat. Very sexy. ~ James Patterson

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems. ~ Peter Agre

Do you know how to open a coconut?'
'"Open" a coconut?' I repeat.
'I'm making a tropical punch.'
'What a stunning idea,' I say.
'Not original enough for you, my little creative bunny? Fine. Here's a twist for you: when
someone drinks it, you have to hit them in the face. Get it? Tropical punch. ~ Gemma Burgess

We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the trees with a lot of sunlight and no clothes. ~ Helen Fisher

Fred was afraid of the night, afraid his body would slip away from him, dissolve in that purple velvet with diamond eyes, the tropical night. The tropical night did not lie inert, like a painted movie backdrop, but was filled with whisperings, and seemed to have arms like the foliage.
Beauty was a drug. The small beach shone like mercury at their feet. ~ Anais Nin

Being that I'm a tropical black man I don't get to see much snow. When I see snow I go crazy. That's why they call me Sasquatch. There's no Sasquatch found in the snow so I had to go back to my Sasquatchian roots. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

It's amazing how dramatically life can change while your bedroom decor stays exactly the same. ~ Lauren Miller

You know what I love about this place? (Joe)
I hope it's not the décor. (Steele) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself. Most of the movies of that period never appealed to me. I didn't like the 'naturalism,' the sad or the 'down-to-earth' characters. What I wanted from film was fantasy, dreams, funny situations, extravagant decor - and beautiful women. ~ Christian Louboutin

Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges. ~ David Suzuki

Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later ... some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor" . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie. ~ Ezra Pound

The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to flower and fruit, and they do it hardly, or with tropical luxuriance, as the rain admits ... One hopes the land may breed like qualities in her human offspring, not tritely to 'try,' but to do. ~ Mary Hunter Austin

Arsay should have been a vampyre. He loves the entire Gothic error, the décor hasn't changed since gargoyles sprung up all over Paris. ~ Poppet

The ... office was decorated in early American Earth Mother, with spider plants, hemp wall tapestries, and beeswax candles. ~ Karen Neches

A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and South East Asia is being carried out by organized crime. This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change. ~ Achim Steiner

Your home is living space, not storage space. ~ Francine Jay

Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like. ~ Tony Hillerman

On an impulse he cannot explain, he buys himself a one-way ticket - and the evening of that very same day finds him wandering the streets of the old colonial quarter of the Colombian town. Girls in love with boys on scooters, screeching birds, tropical flowers on winding vines, saudade, and solitude, One Hundred Years of it; and then, as the tropical dusk darkens the corners of the Plaza de la Adana, he sees a woman, her fingers toying with a necklace of lapis lazuli, and they stand still as the world eddies about them. ~ David Mitchell

Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become 'better organized. ~ Lydia Davis

World-wide warming moved tropical diseases into northern areas which had no defenses against them. ~ Nancy Kress

Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire. ~ Bryan Batt

What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor. ~ Douglas Wilson

Up to four chauffeurs, two secretaries, two personal maids, and a masseur traveled with her to each home ~ Estella M. Chung

The walls were lined with shelves, and she insulated their nest with volumes collected over the years. Their decor was the many colorful spines. ~ Kenneth Calhoun

My own face had now assumed a deep tropical burn. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

The God's tropical ... ladies call me 'Black Fruit Punch.' ~ Ghostface Killah

The mangosteen, queen of the tropical fruit. ~ David Fairchild

But during all these years I had a vague but persistent desire to return to New Orleans. I never forgot New Orleans. And when we were in tropical places and places of those flowers and trees that grow in Louisiana, I would think of it acutely and I would feel for my home the only glimmer of desire I felt for anything outside my endless pursuit of art. ~ Anne Rice

The haute décor of the San Diego Homicide Division offices could have been lifted straight out of any insurance ajusters' pied-a-terre in Omaha. ~ Mark T. Sullivan

I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives. ~ Albert Hadley

So many people arrange furniture in order to see what's going on outside. But why? The view isn't going anywhere. ~ Albert Hadley

Lately she'd been charting Bobby's moods like a meteorologist watching tropical storms. Something was bothering him, and he wasn't talking. ~ Paul Levine

'Mad Men' doesn't capture one single thing about the decor, costumes, or sexual interaction. It is a total projection of contemporary snarky attitudes into the past. ~ Camille Paglia

Furniture and food are ways that people define their attitude toward life. They'll buy better stuff if it's offered to them. ~ Terence Conran

I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful. ~ Isaac Mizrahi

Interior decor is my guilty pleasure. If I'm going to splurge on something, it's more for my home than for clothes. ~ Kourtney Kardashian

The tropical, stale heat the sidewalks had been sucking up all day hit me in the face like a last insult. ~ Sylvia Plath

Tropical storm update flashes menacingly across the television screen, and I reach for the remote, turning up the volume several notches. Tropical Storm Paloma has been officially upgraded to hurricane status, the local meteorologist announces--just a little too gleefully, if you ask me. It's currently a category one, but they expect it to strengthen to a two before making landfall.
Oh, joy.
The US model is predicting landfall just west of Pensacola, Florida, while the European model predicts Gulfport, Mississippi. Seems like a toss-up, except that they're sending Jim Cantore to Gulfport, and everyone knows what that means.
The Mississippi coast is doomed. ~ Kristi Cook

Love your home and it will love you back. This is good feng shui ~ Rodika Tchi

Light, air, sound. In every space, it's how you embrace those things. ~ Michael Gabellini

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings ... That's not quite true! ~ Norman MacCaig

Recent estimates suggest there are at least two million tropical insect species and perhaps as many as seven million. ~ Elizabeth Kolbert

We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Fashion and decor should amuse you and your friends. ~ Lauren Santo Domingo

Contrary to some perceptions, revolutionary ideology, even in a tropical country, is not hot. It is cold, man-made. ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen

Tropical forests are on fire, the desert encroaches. All humanity, if you like, is harmful. What is one to say to this? Try walking more? ~ Ludvík Vaculík

Midway between land and water, freshwater marshes are among the most highly productive ecosystems on earth, rivaling the tropical rainforest. ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer

I'll only be wearing a t-shirt," she said. "I love to let the tropical breeze ruffle my tail feathers. ~ Fred Barnett

There are two things that make a room timeless: a sense of history and a piece of the future. ~ Charlotte Moss

Dozens of my own friends and acquaintances
ambitious, educated women who might have turned up their noses at anything domestic had they been born a generation earlier
have blogs dedicated to cupcakes or knitting or vintage home decor. ~ Emily Matchar

A soul-nourishing life is not possible if we neglect our sensuality. ~ Lebo Grand

It's that moon again, slung so fat and low in the tropical night, calling out across a curdled sky and into the quivering ears of that dear old voice in the shadows, the Dark Passenger, nestled snug in the backseat of the Dodge K-car of Dexter's hypothetical soul.
That rascal moon, that loudmouthed leering Lucifer, calling down across the empty sky to the dark hearts of the night monsters below, calling them away to their joyful playgrounds. ~ Jeff Lindsay

I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there? ~ Spencer W. Kimball

Beauty is my heritage, but home decor is very much my passion, ~ Aerin Lauder

Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests. ~ Frances Beinecke

Tropical trees had been planted throughout the room, along with bright flowering plants that were busy committing the olfactory floral equivalent of aggravated assault. ~ Jim Butcher

Another one, popular with inhabitants of northern Europe, invokes the supposed stimulatory effects of their homeland's cold climate and the inhibitory effects of hot, humid, tropical climates on human creativity and energy. Perhaps the seasonally variable climate at high latitudes poses more diverse challenges than does a seasonally constant tropical climate. Perhaps cold climates require one to be more technologically inventive to survive, because one must build a warm home and make warm clothing, whereas one can survive in the tropics with simpler housing and no clothing. Or the argument can be reversed to reach the same conclusion: the long winters at high latitudes leave people with much time in which to sit indoors and invent. ~ Jared Diamond

I don't see what's so "romantic" about spending a week in a tropical paradise with your spouse whom you've already seen almost every day for the past quarter century. ~ Rachel Cohn

The most important thing? Perfect lighting at all times. ~ Oscar De La Renta

The decor was attractive and strong, but blander than she would have thought his wealth and position afforded him. Caren couldn't see the point of having that much money if all of it led to beige. ~ Attica Locke

It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement. ~ Herman Melville

Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest. ~ Kim Jong-un

The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest. ~ Tahir Shah

My favorite look would be a fresh, dewy face with a bronze, sun-kissed glow. It looks so tropical and reminds me of a place that feels like true home. ~ Mya

The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, income, personality, mood. But under the fur, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls. ~ Eric Gurney

I have to say,comparatively my life was dull - I'd never fallen in love with my own rapist or been kidnapped and held captive on a tropical island. Of course, there's always tomorrow. ~ Marshall Thornton

Who could step in while I take a break in your stock-standard resort-style vacation destination, whether it be tropical or of the ski trip variety? The answer, of course, is nobody, ~ Markus Zusak

I have every magazine known to mankind. I just love home decor and travel magazines, and I'm inspired to go visit places I've never been. That's what I really want to do - travel. ~ Jillian Barberie

Coming joys, like tropical shores, throw over the immensity before them their inborn softness, an odorous wind, and we are lulled by this intoxication without a thought of the horizon that we do not even know. ~ Gustave Flaubert

I like the Hotel Costes, on rue Saint Honore, a boutique hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre and the Tuileries. I love the dark, moody decor as well as the fantastic scented, candlelit pool in the basement. ~ Alice Temperley

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

Humans have terrible passions that can go either way: create or destroy, it all depends on where they emerge. Art is not a tranquil occupation. What is peaceful about wrestling with nothingness? If the process isn't brutal, it's just decor. Your choice: violence towards others, or violence to yourself? ~ Jessica Zafra