Tourists Quotes - Page 11

• ... 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Richard Conniff

  Black, Age, Modern Life

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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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• Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends.

  Tahir Shah

  Skeletons, Years, Elephants

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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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• There is much to be said against the climate on the coast of British Columbia and Alaska; yet, I believe that the scenery of one good day will compensate the tourists who will go there in increasing numbers.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Beauty, Believe, Good Day

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• Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large parties and has an extensive social life; yet he is lonely, and his guests scarcely know him.... Hemingway's characters live in a tourist world, and one of their major problems is that of consuming time itself. It is interesting to observe that his works are written from the stand point of the spectator. His characters are usually people who are looking--looking at bullfights, scenery, and at one another across cafe tables.

  James T. Farrell

  Lonely, Loneliness, Party

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• The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires

  Banksy

  Art, Real, People

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended...The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China.

  Cameron Diaz

  Bags, May, Apologizing

  "Diaz apologises for Maoist slogan". news.bbc.co.uk. June 25, 2007.

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• I have long argued that we need to reopen Alcatraz to house government criminals, and let tourists on excursion boats in San Francisco Bay pay to chum the water with meat with an expired sell-by date that would otherwise have to be discarded.

  L. Neil Smith

  Government, San Francisco, Long

  "It Has to Cost Them Something". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. February 08, 2009.

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• I would go to newsstands and buy paperbacks they were selling for tourists, usually bestsellers and mass market paperbacks. In the beginning, it was like going to the Rosetta Stone--I didn?t understand anything, I'd get a headache--but I began to figure it out, and I'd read a lot of Stephen King paperbacks. I've always said he was my English professor.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Kings, Stones, Headache

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• The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.

  Marsden Hartley

  Travel, Reading, Joy

  Marsden Hartley (1998). “Somehow a Past: The Autobiography of Marsden Hartley”, p.135, MIT Press

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• I was a mere tourist with no part whatever in this great conflict; but it was my rare privilege, through an unusual train of circumstances, to witness the moving scenes that I have resolved to describe. In these pages I give only my personal impressions; so my readers should not look here for specific details, nor for information on strategic matters; these things have their place in other writings.

  Henry Dunant

  Moving, Writing, Giving

  "A Memory of Solferino". Book by Henry Dunant, p. 16; As quoted in The Independent, February 22, 2002, 1862.

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• It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists have both upper and lower plates.

  Ed Zern

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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