Virginia Postrel

Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of bell curves, and pretty much everyone is on a tail of at least one of them. We may collect strange memorabilia or read esoteric books, hold unusual religious beliefs or wear odd-sized shoes, suffer rare diseases or enjoy obscure movies.

American Writer

Alice Roberts

The science of being healthy is well-known. It is not esoteric. There are no magic bullets. If you want to live a long life, we've known the answers for more than a hundred years. It's a wide-ranging diet with as much fruit and veg as you can stuff into yourself, and plenty of exercise. It doesn't even matter what kind of exercise.

English Scientist

Lawrence Wright

People love to talk about the things that are important to them, but oftentimes as a journalist, if you're entering a world that's pretty esoteric and difficult to penetrate and has many barriers to outsiders, then the people inside that world just don't have the same language as you do.

American Author

Mary Lou Jepsen

I took on the math-intensive art form of holography and, in my early 20s, traveled the world, living on university fellowships to pursue this esoteric craft. I didn't date much, really - perhaps because I didn't have many hormones, though I didn't know that at the time.

American Businesswoman

Saul Williams

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.

American Musician

Julia Holter

I take music very seriously, but it's important to me that my music is - I don't know if 'intuitive' is the word, but there's a really important element of something kind of mysterious. It's not academic or esoteric.

Damian Loeb

If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.

American Artist

Julia Cameron

I believe that when we ask to be led, we are led, and there's nothing too small or esoteric for spiritual help.

Keith Richards

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

English Musician

Christoph Waltz

You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.

Austrian Actor

Esoteric often describes knowledge that requires specific training or education to understand.

Specialized Topics

If something is esoteric, it's not designed for the broad public but for a particular group of enthusiasts.

Narrow Audience

Use it for ideas or works that are not commonly known or popular in mainstream culture.

Not Mainstream

The word can imply a group is deliberately keeping its knowledge or activities hidden from others.

Exclusive Groups

It may refer to language full of jargon understood only by a particular profession or interest group.

Insider Language

Describes tastes or creations that are very unique and generally not appreciated widely.

Highly Individual

Can refer to art or traditions not widely spread or recognized outside a particular culture or society.

Culturally Specific

It's often associated with art or practices that are innovative and unorthodox.

Experimentation

 so out of our reach what are a couple things that people can do at home to kind of help not only just the animals here that are migrating but just animals throughout the world aren't migrating I'm gonna get a little philosophical alright get philosophical let's do it get a little esoteric here I do have a

Elk Conservation in...

 that maybe the molecules of life aren't that special maybe life as we know it isn't the only way it could be maybe we're not the only solution maybe not even the best so just a solution these questions address fundamental issues about life but maybe they seem a little esoteric so what

The radical possibilities...

 and then promptly reclaiming it. Feminism was the water I grew up in. When I was just a little girl, my mom started what is now the longest-running women's film festival in the world. So while other kids were watching sitcoms and cartoons, I was watching very esoteric documentaries

Courtney Martin:...

 work that way that's very flattering to nerds like me but it's just not true science is an esoteric knowledge science is a process for figuring out the world you look at the world you think of why it might work that way you test your theory with experiments and observations

Demystifying quantum...

 And they don't know that they are not supposed to like computers. It's the parents who do. It's us parents who feel like computer science is this esoteric, weird science discipline that only belongs to the mystery makers. That it's almost as far removed from everyday life

A delightful way to...

 machine having the experience to some esoteric space where I'm witnessing myself having this experience there was all very peculiar and my headache was just getting worse so I get off the machine and I'm walking across my living room floor and I realized that

Stroke of insight - Jill...

 is only part of the solution. The technology is expensive and very rare, and the imaging and image processing skills are esoteric. That means that mounting recoveries is beyond the reach of most researchers and all but the wealthiest institutions.

How I'm discovering the...

 esoteric subject, in a way that retains the integrity of the subject, that makes it -- unpacks it for a general audience. And that, to me, today, is now the challenge and the fun of my job, supporting the vision of my curators,

Thomas P. Campbell:...

 but they're characterizing this beginning um point of his reign where you know he is building the palace and he's reconquering lands that Palenque had lost previously but there couching this history and very esoteric religious

Palenque and the Ancient...

 esoteric to some people it's just because they're there is enough for me I hate to use cliches like the plague but extinction is forever they're part of the species of this planet of these