Sightseeing Quotes:

I don't get to do as much sightseeing as I would like to.

- Maria Sharapova

source: "Maria Sharapova Talks Tennis, Travel, and Her Sweet Tooth". SELF interview, www.popsugar.com. August 31, 2011.

topic: Sightseeing

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

source: Robert Louis Stevenson (2006). “The Silverado Squatters: Easyread Large Edition”, p.17, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Art, Disappointment, Sightseeing

When I'm on tour, I don't see these spots as much as I'd like. I'm just in, I perform, then I'm out. I hope to spend years sightseeing, then more years after that.

- Sharon Jones

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Years, Sightseeing, Spots

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

- Hilaire Belloc

source: Hilaire Belloc (1942). “Places”

topic: Life, Travel, Differences, Solo Travel, Journey Inspirational

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Travel, Solo Travel, Inspirational Vacation

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

- Rosalia de Castro

topic: Travel, Adventure, Hiking, Solo Travel, Journeys And Paths

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Inspirational, Travel, Fun, Inspirational Adventure, Inspirational Vacation

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

- Mark Twain

topic: Travel, Hate, Memorable, Inspirational Adventure, Inspirational Vacation

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

- Danny Kaye

topic: Travel, Journey, Solo Travel, Journey And Destination, Journey Inspirational

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

- James A. Michener

source: "Good Advice". Book by William Safire and Leonard Safir, 1982.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Travel, Journey Home, Inspirational Adventure Time

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

- Bill Bryson

topic: Travel, Taken, Luxury, Experiencing Things, Solo Travel

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful, Beautiful Nature, Soul Beauty

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

- Daniel J. Boorstin

source: Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.85, Vintage

topic: Travel, Memorable, Adventure, Experiencing Things, Journeys And Paths

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

- Cesare Pavese

topic: Inspirational, Forgiveness, Travel, Packing, Inspirational Adventure Time

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

- Tennessee Williams

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Travel, Inspirational Adventure, Photography And Travel

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

- Anatole France

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature, Costa Rica, Nomadic

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

- Robert Frost

source: "The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Success, Different Roads, Journey And Destination

There's not much to be said for sightseeing. You go somewhere that has a waterfall. You have a beer, watch the water go over the edge, and move on. Tours are all the same. In the end, the only thing that matters is the beer.

- Jack McDevitt

source: Jack McDevitt (2013). “Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -”, p.172, Hachette UK

topic: Moving, Beer, Water, Over The Edge, Sightseeing

Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

- Paul Theroux

source: Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Play, Actors, Invention, Rehearsing, Sightseeing

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Country, Gratitude, Travel, Country Roads, Nomad

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

- Charles Horton Cooley

source: Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.249, Transaction Publishers

topic: Travel, Self, Environment, Inspirational Vacation, Best Vacation

Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.

- Lauren Hutton

topic: Travel, Good Life, White, Great Travel, Sightseeing

So, I went to Germany and ended up parasailing around this castle. I was in Germany sightseeing, eating Bratwurst and hanging out in beer gardens. And then, I got back from Germany and got a call where they were like, "We need to fly you to New York tomorrow to read with Taylor [Schilling]." I was like, "Wait, for Alex, the manipulative drug-smuggling lesbian girl?!," and they were like, "Yeah."

- Laura Prepon

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Girl, New York, Beer, Manipulative, Smuggling

There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.

- Graham Lowe

topic: Sports, Hate, Team, Inspiration To Others, Inspirational Adventure

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Travel, Adventure, Passive Voice, Journeys And Paths, Travel And Tourism

The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random, you will find something - a plastic flower, false tiles, some imitation something - something which can be appreciated as material only if apprehended by eyesight alone. Don't we go sightseeing in cars, thinking we can experience a landscape by looking at it through glass?

- Galway Kinnell

topic: Flower, Thinking, Glasses, Plastic Flowers, Eyesight

I'm not one for sightseeing or going around the shops when I'm on holiday. I do enough shopping when I'm at home, and like to have a complete break when I'm away.

- Paloma Faith

topic: Home, Holiday, Shopping, Sightseeing

I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich.

- Danny DeVito

source: "Danny DeVito: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 20, 2010.

topic: Towers, Looks, Sandwiches, Pisa, Sightseeing

I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.

- Lord Dunsany

topic: Travel, Moon, Thinking, Bogs, Great Travel

I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence.

- Ashley Jensen

topic: Museums, Smell, Church, Backstreet, Sightseeing

Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments; it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing.

- Aldous Huxley

source: Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

topic: Motivation, Men, Past, Antipodes, Sightseeing

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

- William Least Heat-Moon

topic: Travel, Past, Journey, Costa Rica, Weary Traveler

The only thing that matters is the theater!

- Lily Rabe

topic: Matter, Theater, Things That Matter, Had A Great Time, Managing Time

I'm lucky in that I travel a lot for work. I also manage several holidays a year. I'm not someone who sits in the sun or goes sightseeing, though. If I go away, it will be for fishing or something like that.

- Vinnie Jones

topic: Holiday, Years, Fishing, Sightseeing

I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.

- Arsene Wenger

topic: Soccer, Football, Islands, Arsenal, Sightseeing

Brynjolfsson and McAfee take us on a whirlwind tour of innovators and innovations around the world. But this isn't just casual sightseeing. Along the way, they describe how these technological wonders came to be, why they are important, and where they are headed.

- Hal Varian

topic: Innovation, Important, World, Sightseeing

Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten. We'll go nutting once more. We'll pluck the nut of the world, and crack it in the winter evenings. Theaters and all other sightseeing are puppet-shows in comparison. I will take another walk to the Cliff, another row on the river, another skate on the meadow, be out in the first snow, and associate with the winter birds. Here I am at home. In the bare and bleached crust of the earth I recognize my friend.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Travel, Home, Winter, First Snow, Puppet Shows

Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.201, Courier Corporation

topic: Faith, Inspiration, Self, Post Office, First Snow