Tourists Quotes - Page 7

• There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.

  Paul Theroux

  Two, People, World

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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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

  Goes On, Safari, Traditional

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that, and it will never occur to you that the people who inhabit the place in which you have just paused cannot stand you.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Travel, Stupid, Ugly Things

  Jamaica Kincaid (2000). “A Small Place”, p.17, Macmillan

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• 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

  Jamaica, Bob, Marley

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• Tourists see, and travelers seek.

  Adam Braun

  Traveler

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• For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. ... It is a city that offers me more people -- more different kinds of people -- than I could otherwise possibly have come to know in a lifetime: the native Washingtonian, the local merchant, the foreign diplomat, the ever-present tourist, the public servant, the journalist, the president, the friend.

  Katharine Graham

  Eight, Cities, People

  Katharine Graham (2009). “Katharine Graham's Washington”, p.16, Vintage

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• 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

  Years, Looks, Hawaii

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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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

  Summer, Smell, May

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• 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

  Oxford, Mind, Visitors

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I expect it's like writing in Manhattan, but there aren't as many tourists walking very slowly in front of you when you step out for coffee.

  Colson Whitehead

  Coffee, Writing, Paris

  "The Column of Lasting Insignificance" by John Wilcock, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2008.

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• When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Nomad, Feels

  "Mohsin Hamid on writing 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist'". www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

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• Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spend a week in London doing nothing but visit superb museums and galleries, free.

  Simon Hoggart

  Museums, Government, Theatre

  "Simon Hoggart's week: Why do we worry when writers go stateside?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• ... the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.

  Craig L. Rice

  Beautiful, Hands, Perfection

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• I'm perpetual tourist, and that's the best way to travel. Nobody gets used to you, you make new friends without having to hear anyone's everyday problems, and you jet back still feeling like a know-it-all.

  John Waters

  Everyday Problems, Feelings, Way

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• 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

  Want, Language, Restaurants

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• Your responsibility is to be an explorer, not a tourist in this adventure that is your life.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Life, Adventure, Responsibility

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2012). “Honey in Your Heart: Ways to See and Savor the Simple Good Things”, p.16, Conari Press

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• 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

  Done, Return, Machu Picchu

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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• 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

  Meat, India, Crowds

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

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• 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

  Lying, Sun, Good Times

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Adventure, Space, Tourism

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• It is charming the way everyone in the South says, 'Come back.' This is the regulation farewell at gas stations, soda fountains, general stores, tourist camps. 'Come back,' they call, 'come back.' Do they feel marooned in one place, lost, needing to believe someone will return to share their exile on the similar main streets, in the varied but always new-looking land?

  Martha Gellhorn

  Believe, Farewell, Land

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The View from the Ground”, p.85, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. Id much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners.

  Frans Lanting

  Important, Gold, Tourism

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• Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?

  Robert Orben

  Travel, Home, Past

  Robert Orben (1978). “2000 new laughs for speakers: the ad-libber's handbook”, Random House Value Pub

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• Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.

  Noah Baumbach

  Manhattan, Driven, Wealthy

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• New York's not exactly antiseptic. It could be clean and less dangerous, and not horrible, not under a tidal wave of tourists.

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, Wave, Clean

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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