Tourists Quotes

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant ‘idiot.

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous. Quaint, when used to describe the occasional village through which they passed, meant fever-ridden and tumbledown. Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, mean 'idiot'.

The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

The people on the streets just say 'hi' and let me walk on. They take relatively few photos, and those that do are tourists. Munich natives are relatively relaxed. They pretty much leave me in peace and I think that's very good. The Bavarian mentality fits very well to me.

Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler

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.

Every time, every time a tourist or an immigrant or a refugee shows up in another country there's a security risk.

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.

Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth

When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.

What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.

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.

If its tourist season, why cant we shoot them

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.

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

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.

The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.

Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them?

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim.

If we can't export the scenery, we'll import the tourists.

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.

If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?

The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.

I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real) proves that we are not living in Judaea in 50 AD. . . . Saint Paul would never go near Disneyland. Only children, tourists, and visiting Soviet high officials ever go to Disneyland. Saints do not.

[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.

The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?

To be a tourist is to escape accountability.

I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.

What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.

In an instant he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that he would speak loudly and slowly in his own language.

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

The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the plague of our century and we'll not survive this one.

You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.

Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. Thats always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.

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.

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.

Autumn is full of leave-taking. In September the swallows are chattering of destination and departure like a crowd of tourists.

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.

Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't.

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.

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

When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.

To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.

A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.

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.