quotes 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 MohlerSource : Albert Mohler (2012). “The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters”, p.140, Baker Books
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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...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 KilvertSource : W. Plomer (ed.) 'Selections from the Diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert' (1938-40) 5 April 1870
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The Russian Dept of Tourism has declared Ukraine its most dangerous destination. Many Russian tourists have disappeared there.
-- Garry Kasparov -
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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 f@@king tourist.
-- Guillermo del Toro -
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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 -
Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler
-- Ira Levin -
The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies; some were kept on to entertain the tourists, like the one they have in England.
-- Ishmael Reed -
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People who are pro smacking children say, 'It's the only language they understand.' You could apply that to tourists.
-- Jack Dee -
Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel.
-- James Howard Kunstler -
I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection.
-- John GallianoSource : "Girl Least Likely To: 30 years of fashion, fasting and Fleet Street". Book by Liz Jones, July 4, 2013.
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The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.
-- John Lithgow -
As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South.
-- John Shelton Reed -
I've taught the better class of tourist both to see and not to see; to lift their eyes above and beyond the inessentials, and thrill to our western Nature in her majesty.
-- Jonathan RabanSource : "Looking Together: Writers on Art". Book by Rebecca Brown and Mary Jane Knecht, April 30, 2009.
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I'm not really a tourist attraction kind of guy.
-- Josh Hartnett -
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But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals.
-- Juan Goytisolo -
Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.
-- Julie Burchill -
I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.
-- Karl Lagerfeld -
Ive been on Wall Street once in my life in 1980 as a tourist. I went to see the stock exchange when I was 18 years old. Im not a Wall Street lawyer, Im a Stanwix Street lawyer. Stanwix Street is a street in downtown Pittsburgh.
-- Keith Rothfus -
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The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex.
-- Klaus KinskiSource : Klaus Kinski (1997). “Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski”, Penguin Books
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Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.
-- Lawrence Block -
We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.
-- Marc Almond -
From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.
-- Margaret Halsey -
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Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.
-- Martin Parr -
When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.
-- Michael Franti -
When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.
-- Mohsin Hamid -
Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.
-- Noah Baumbach -
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I'd rather lie bare-assed naked on the sidewalk and be trampled by tourists from South Dakota than be an accountant.
-- Nora Roberts -
What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.
-- Patrick F. McManus -
I'm a tourist, a glorified tourist. I'm not doing it to have a good time or to lie in the sun.
-- Paul Theroux -
I don't look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren't there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary.
-- Paul Theroux -
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Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't.
-- Paul Theroux -
I hope I'm not a tourist attraction - I'm sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place.
-- Prince William -
If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.
-- Rebecca HallSource : "Rebecca Hall is Transcontinental". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 15, 2012.
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The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
-- Richard Leakey -
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I don't want to be an island. I want to be more of a tourist attraction. You stop here, I take your money and you go.
-- Richard Sherman -
Traveling for modeling has been great, but I never really have much time to live the tourist life while in all the different cities.
-- Rila Fukushima -
The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.
-- Robert FulghumSource : Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.173, Ivy Books
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The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.
-- Robert MorleySource : "Death of Baron De Kalb" by Benjamin Franklin Ells, 1849.
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The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.
-- Sam Ewing -
Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth
-- Satish Kumar -
Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate ...
-- Shana AlexanderSource : Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co
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Only on the third class tourist class passengers' deck was it a sultry overcast morning, but then if you do things on the cheap you must expect these things.
-- Spike Milligan -
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If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?
-- Stephen Hawking -
A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in.
-- Thomas H. Cook -
I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.
-- Tim Roth -
If we can't export the scenery, we'll import the tourists.
-- William Cornelius Van Horne -
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I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
-- William Howard Taft -
There's a lot of processed food in America and I know that can make some tourists who're used to fresh food feel sick.
-- Wolfgang Puck -
I just want to live like a full-time tourist, to show up at the airport, pick a destination, walk up to the counter and say, 'Do you have any first-class seats?'
-- Edgerrin James -
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[Michael] Felix and other immigration attorneys say it's possible [Melania] Trump was doing what a lot of models do - working illegally on a tourist visa.
-- Hansi Lo Wang -
At one point, we were stuck at the border of Peru and Colombia and met this large Haitian population that was stranded there without passports and couldn't move. We had this revelation that, as tourists, we were so free to move, and here was this other population who couldn't cross borders.
-- Sam Pressman -
You avoid the overcrowding of tourist locations by traveling in off-season. That is now one of the major rules of smart travel - go when the tourists are NOT there, and even though you may have to don an extra layer of clothing, you will enjoy the sights and the experiences at the destination in the way that they were enjoyed before they became so well-known.
-- Arthur Frommer -
I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside other travelers, such as anthropologists, colonists, missionaries, even tourists. I do that to emphasize subjectivity, rather than privilege any single perspective - I see myself as only one of many storytellers.
-- Susan Meiselas -
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Every time, every time a tourist or an immigrant or a refugee shows up in another country there's a security risk.
-- Justin TrudeauSource : Source: www.cbsnews.com