Tourism Quotes - Page 6

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

  Edgar Bergen

  Travel, Years, Tourists

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• Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Travel, Artist, Journey

  Lawrence Durrell (2011). “Bitter Lemons of Cyprus”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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• It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Travel, Disenchanted, Hopefully

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• We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

  Marc Almond

  Opportunity, People, Tourists

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• The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Beautiful, Country, Travel

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “A World of Strangers”, p.45, A&C Black

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• Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.

  Alan Coren

  Funny, Humor, Order

  Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.184, Canongate Books

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• 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.

  Brian Setzer

  Tourists, Gone, Gears

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• In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.

  Burt Rutan

  Country, Years, Space

  "U.S. team bids to win space prize". www.cnn.com. September 30, 2004.

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• History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

  Ted Koppel

  History, Historical, Tools

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• We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

  Anatole Broyard

  War, Winning, Tourists

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• The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life, the way to find the essence of every place, every day: in the markets, small chapels, out-of-the-way parks, craft shops. Curiosity about the extraordinary in the ordinary moves the heart of the traveler intent on seeing behind the veil of tourism.

  Phil Cousineau

  Moving, Heart, Essence

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• Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting

  Gavin Newsom

  Art, San Francisco, Reason

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• But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Dedication, Miracle, Tourists

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• There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a sort of Disneyland at the French Quarter for tourists. The rest I don't know

  Geraldo Rivera

  Thinking, New Orleans, Cities

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• One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.

  Freya Stark

  Differences, Healthy, Trying

  "Riding to the Tigris" by Freya Stark, quoted in "The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road" by Paul Theroux, McClelland & Stewart, (p. 226), July 12, 2011.

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• We in Illinois are very fortunate to have a number of historic structures that have added immeasurably to the cultural life of the state, to the tourism industry of the state which by the way is our number one industry.

  James R. Thompson

  Numbers, Illinois, Way

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• The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  America, Effort, Mind

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• We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

  Epictetus

  Character, Effort, Theft

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• They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

  Mike Schmidt

  Sports, Roots, Giving

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• Nevada once again has shown double digit increases in tax revenue... Nevada continues to show economic stability with its desirable business climate and booming tourism sector.

  Kenny Guinn

  Climate, Double Standard, Economic

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• Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.

  Ed Rendell

  Second Chance, People, Term

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• If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.

  Prince Philip

  Edinburgh, Classic, Congestion

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• We want to build colonies on the Moon, Mars, the Moons of other planets, and even nearby asteroids. We want to make space tourism and commerce routine.

  Daniel Goldin

  Future, Moon, Space

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• Flight out of the atmosphere is a simple thing to do and should have been available to the public twenty years ago. Ten years from now, we will have space tourism where you will be able to see the black sky and the curvature of the earth. It will be the most exciting roller coaster ride you can buy.

  Burt Rutan

  Future, Simple, Should Have

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• Market studies suggest space tourism-a rubbernecker's trip to earth orbit-is likely to draw 50,000 passengers a year if the ticket can be pushed below $25,000. That's what tens of thousands of people spend each year on competing trips, such as round-the-world cruises on luxury liners and adventure tours to Antarctica or Mount Everest.

  G. Harry Stine

  Future, Adventure, Years

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