Tourists Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  John Cage

  Attitude, People, Brass

  "Musicage: Cage Muses on Words, Art, Music". Book by John Cage, January, 1996.

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• The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Wine, Paris, Glasses

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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

  Tourism, Gone, Gears

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

  Klaus Kinski

  Sex, Real, Gypsy

  Klaus Kinski (1997). “Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski”, Penguin Books

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

  Louis C. K.

  Prisoner, Perversion

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• My next climb is going to be a tourist troll in a wheelchair.

  Allen Steck

  Climbing, Next, Troll

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• Personally, I would rather climb in the high mountains. I have always abhorred the tremendous heat, the dirt-filled cracks, the ant-covered foul-smelling trees and bushes which cover the cliffs, the filth and noise of Camp 4 (the climbers' campground), and worst of all, the multitudes of tourists which abound during the weekends and summer months.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Summer, Weekend, Climbing

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• The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Italian, Men

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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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• But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are too poor to escape the reality of their lives; and they are too poor to live properly in the place where they live, which is the very place you, the tourist, want to go--so when the natives see you, the tourist, they envy you, they envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom, they enjoy your ability to turn their own banality and boredom into a source of pleasure for yourself.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Reality, Envy, Boredom

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• The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that they call sculpture. And then there are spectators. with their scorecards, rooting for culture. And spectators of the spectators, looking for love's introduction. And art students taking notes. And old women trying to remember the past. And old men with too much to forget. And tourists, thinking that a museum represents a city. And loafers so poor, they study their soberness here.

  Marvin L. Cohen

  Art, Men, Thinking

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• I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Thinking, Bombs, Done

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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• Parents who want a fresh point of view on their furniture are advised to drop down on all fours and accompany the nine or ten month old on his rounds. It is probably many years since you last studied the underside of a dining room chair. The ten month old will study this marvel with as much concentration and reverence as a tourist in the Cathedral of Chartres.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Views, Years, Parent

  Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

  Carl Honore

  Airplane, Journey, Lunch

  "Recession? The Perfect Time to Slow Down" by Carl Honoré, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2008.

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• We have a greedy cycle where Human Rights Commissions fine citizens in order to pay their own salaries so they can employ more Human Rights Commissions. It's a bounty system where the prizes are business owner's heads. And so as restaurants go broke, tourists get stabbed. That's human rights in New York. And perhaps America.

  Greg Gutfeld

  New York, America, Rights

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It's getting harder to make decisions to work for the sake of working. Like everybody, I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply. Sometimes something like The Tourist comes up and it's just fun, but it's not as easy to find projects that I have to do. I have to be home and I have to do other things, but I don't have to work as much.

  Angelina Jolie

  Fun, Home, Mean

  "Angelina Jolie on "Playing Vivienne" in The Tourist, Becoming Ladylike, and Her Directorial Influences". Interview with Molly Goodson, www.popsugar.com. December 1, 2010.

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• Tourist trips to Cuba are being abused. They are tourist trips that are providing hard currency for a dictatorial, tyrannical regime to get hard currency that it uses to oppress its people. And that's why these trips need to be carefully scrutinized.

  Marco Rubio

  People, Use, Cuba

  Source: alter.newsweek.msnbc.com

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• Tourism has affected Cuba, because tourists come and they bring racist, sexist ideas. They bring a whole vision that there are rich people all over the world and that's the way it should be.

  Assata Shakur

  Ideas, People, Vision

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• I always wrote about girls that went to the beach and had that summer that changed everything. So I was interested in what it would be like to live in a tourist town where everyone has these life changing experiences, but your whole life is there.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Summer, Beach

  Interview with Stephanie Mooney, www.weheartya.com. June 13, 2013.

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• I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any mouth. When I write I may be a Brando creep, or a girl laying on the floor, or a Japanese tourist, or a slob like Richard Speck. You have to be a chameleon when you're writing.

  Patti Smith

  Girl, Writing, Men

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions of sad stories in this giant sea of immigration, poverty, misery and contradictions. So much anger, frustration and fury.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Frustration, Istanbul, Sea

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A tourist will come drawn to its beautiful past but we need to put efforts for creating systems to make them stay here.

  Narendra Modi

  Beautiful, Past, Creating

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• You avoid the overcrowding of tourist locations by traveling in off-season. That is now one of the major rules of smart travel - go when the tourists are NOT there, and even though you may have to don an extra layer of clothing, you will enjoy the sights and the experiences at the destination in the way that they were enjoyed before they became so well-known.

  Arthur Frommer

  Smart, Sight, May

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• I went to the flea market in the morning and charged tourists money to take pictures of me. I looked pretty wild, with hair down to my waist, Indian robes, a floor-length fur coat. There must be lots of photos of me out there.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Morning, Hair, Photo Of Me

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

  Patrick F. McManus

  Fishing, Insects, Term

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