Travel Agent Quotes:

What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organize everything for me. I don't want to do things on the Internet.

- Jenny Eclair

source: "Me and my travels". Interview With Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2006.

topic: Agents, Want, Internet, Posh, Travel Agent

Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of KNOWING Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited.

- Brennan Manning

topic: Religious, Jesus, Book, Knowing Jesus, Brochures

You should definitely have a travel agent. Why go through all the hassle of dealing with airlines, hotels, and rental-car agencies yourself, only to see the arrangements get all screwed up, when with just a single phone call you can have a trained professional screw them up for you?

- Dave Barry

source: Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.21, Ballantine Books

topic: Funny, Agency, Phones, Hassle, Car Rental

A travel agent told I could spend 7 nights in HAWAII no days just nights.

- Rodney Dangerfield

topic: Funny, Humor, Night, Travel Agent

Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.

- Alain de Botton

source: Twitter post from Oct 21, 2010

topic: Wish, Agents, Would Be, Travel Agent

I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all know that a great story can lift spirits, take you anywhere in the world you want to go and in any time period to boot, and the lessons you learn from a good book can buoy your own convictions and even change your life.

- Dorothea Benton Frank

topic: Book, Doctors, Buoys, Lift Spirits, Time Periods

If your project or organization depends on knowing things that other people don't know (but could find out if they wanted to), your days are probably numbered. Ask a travel agent The alternative, while difficult, is obvious. Provide enough non-commodity service and customization that it doesn't matter if the ideas spread. In fact, it will help you when they do.

- Seth Godin

topic: Organization, Ideas, Knowing, Knowing Things, Travel Agent

Should you trust a stockbroker who's married to a travel agent?

- Steven Wright

topic: Funny, Humor, Agents, Stockbrokers, Travel Agent