Quotes of Tourist - somelinesforyou

“ The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. ”

- Russell Baker

“ The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. ”

- Agnes Repplier

“ I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists. ”

- Brigitte Bardot

“ I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers. ”

- Michael Palin

“ You're my first British visitor. ”

- Oprah Winfrey

“ Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. ”

- Paul Theroux

“ 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 Fulghum

“ The traveller has reached the end of the journey! ”

- Edmund Burke

“ In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion. ”

- Robert Runcie

“ The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists. ”

- Sam Ewing

“ This is a very interesting exhibit. It will educate people about death and the afterlife, and how Egyptians used the Book of the Dead and other rituals. It's from the New Kingdom, our golden age. And by coming to Dayton, it is helping to bring the money we need in Egypt… ”

- Zahi Hawass

“ Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else. ”

- Robert Mcafee Brown

“ The vagabond, when rich, is called a tourist. ”

- Paul Richard

“ After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist. ”

- Edgar Bergen

“ I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back. ”

- Tim Roth

“ To some Elvis fans, Graceland is the Mecca of pop-culture kitsch, but to many of the 2,500 tourists who arrive there each day… it's the hallowed shrine of a distinctly American saint. ”

- Elaine Robbins

“ I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town. ”

- William Howard Taft

“ 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

“ The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. ”

- Susan Sontag

“ No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician. ”

- James Harrington

“ In the early years when I toured, I was never a tourist. I was always so focused on the show. I just wanted to tear it up and get out of town. ”

- Prince

“ How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way. ”

- Lisa Marie Presley

“ I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years. ”

- David Ogilvy

“ You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom. ”

- Mark Twain

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence. ”

- Max Lerner

“ If it's tourist season, why can't we kill them? ”

- Unknown

“ I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. ”

- Anais Nin

“ Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant "idiot". ”

- Terry Pratchett

“ Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives — from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango — with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when… ”

- Daniel J. Boorstin
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