Tourists quotes

Tourists

121 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

121 quotes
Terry Pratchett

"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'."

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Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Burroughs Author, Memoirist

"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."

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David Walker
David Walker Artist

"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."

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John Cage Composer, Musician
Tourists

"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."

People Attitude Tourists
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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
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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."

India Meat Tourists
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Tourists

"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."

Trying Peculiar Tourists
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Tourists

"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."

Lines Dimensions Tourists
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Mary McCarthy Author
Tourists

"The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect."

Lines Simplicity Tourists
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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
Tourists

"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."

Done Return Tourists
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D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet
Tourists

"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."

Thinking Bombs Tourists
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Edgerrin James Football Player
Tourists

"I just want to live like a full-time tourist, to show up at the airport, pick a destination, walk up to the counter and say, 'Do you have any first-class seats?'"

Class Airports Tourists
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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
Tourists

"It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well."

Years Space Tourists
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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
Tourists

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

New York Wave Tourists
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