Quotes and Sayings About Tourists
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Everyone is in a hurry. The persons whom I lead in worship, among whom I counsel, visit, pray, preach, and teach, want shortcuts. They want me to help them fill in the form that will get them instant credit (in eternity). They are impatient for results. They have adopted the lifestyle of a tourist and only want the high points. . . . The Christian life cannot mature under such conditions and in such ways.
-- Albert Mohler -
Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.
-- Alex Garland -
My next climb is going to be a tourist troll in a wheelchair.
-- Allen Steck -
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
-- Anatole Broyard -
Don't be a tourist. Plan less. Go slowly. I traveled in the most inefficient way possible and it took me exactly where I wanted to go.
-- Andrew Evans -
Wholesome food is wholesome food anywhere. I may not like something but, generally speaking, if it's a busy, street food stall serving mystery meat in India, they're in the business of serving their neighbors. They're not targeted toward a transient crowd of tourists that won't be around tomorrow. They're not in the business of poisoning their neighbors.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's where they shot Hamish Macbeth.
-- Arabella Weir -
The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
-- Arthur Erickson -
In the long term, there are many factors that will help the luxury market, the creation of new wealth and the Asian tourist boom
-- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley -
When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
-- Banksy -
Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.
-- Brian De Palma -
I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the '50's.
-- Brian Setzer -
I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended...The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China.
-- Cameron Diaz -
Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. Thats always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.
-- Curtis Stone -
Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, to me, it's completely spoiled all, all these places now. Make them all just tourist traps.
-- David Walker -
When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.
-- Denzel Washington -
Many times when you're a tourist you can just stay on the surface and not really experience the place you're visiting, which will probably leave you disappointed. Everywhere has something interesting; it's just about being curious enough to find it and scratch where you have to scratch and stay longer and walk further.
-- Diego Luna -
After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.
-- Edgar Bergen -
A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.
-- Emile Genest -
...to be injured on this tundra would lead to a quick and painful death—or at the very least abject humiliation before the popping flashes of the tourist season's tail end, which was slightly less painful than a painful death, but lasted longer.
-- Eoin Colfer -
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
-- Evelyn Waugh -
Of all noxious animals, the most noxious is a tourist. And of all tourists the most vulgar, ill-bred, offensive and loathsome is the British tourist.
-- Francis Kilvert -
The Russian Dept of Tourism has declared Ukraine its most dangerous destination. Many Russian tourists have disappeared there.
-- Garry Kasparov -
Prices in Italy are only slightly lower than in France, which means that Italy is a very expensive country for everyone, natives, visitors and tourists.
-- George Mikes -
The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.
-- Gore Vidal -
The best evidence that time travel is impossible is the fact that we haven't been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future.
-- Guillaume Musso -
The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a [email protected]@king tourist.
-- Guillermo del Toro -
My staff tells me not to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway. In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it's true.
-- Harry Reid -
The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.
-- Henry Adams