Quotes About Tourists

I mean, what is this life of ours supposed to be for? Are we to spend it identifying each other with catalogues, like tourists in an art gallery? Or are we to try to exchange some kind of a signal, however garbled, before it's too late?

In the market, tourists were still crowded around the fish stand. White-aproned vendors threw thirty-pound king salmons through the air to one another: at every toss, tourists snapped photographs.

The door opened. She looked in the mirror and suppressed a curse. Slipping in behind some tourists, that winged shadow was back again. Karou rose and made for the bathroom, where she took the note that Kishmish had come to deliver. Again it bore a single word. But this time the word was Please.

She knew of a scribe dressed all in white who penned letters to the dead (and delivered them), and an old storyteller who sold ideas to writers at the price of a year of their lives. Karou had seen tourists laugh as they signed his contract, not believing it for a second, but she believed it. Hadn't she seen stranger things?

The restaurant was packed with camera-toting tourists wolfing the "Rose Bowl Special"—hangtown fry, flapjacks, Bloody Marys and coffee.

Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else.

I've been told that N.Y. in the spring is pretty special.

Getting many tourists these days? No. The word was so flat and final, Shelby nearly laughed. You could always try land mines and barbed wire. It amazes me how anyone so in tune with people could dislike them so much. I don't dislike them. Grant heaped eggs on another plate. I just don't want to be around them.

but those mostly tourists or crazies. Man called Teek got himself stupid drunk

You're in Ireland the summer after you left college and you're drinking at a pub near the castle where every day bus loads of English and American tourists come to kiss the Blarney Stone.

Only the tourists really understand Cambridge, Wittgenstein says. Cambridge is only there to be photographed: that's what they grasp. Cambridge is a collective fantasy …

The best evidence that time travel is impossible is the fact that we haven't been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future.

Or so Feynman argued: the philosophers themselves, he said, were always a tempo behind, like tourists moving in after the explorers have left.

The terminal was filled to capacity, crowded with tourists coming in from evacuated safari camps. The air buzzed with fear and nervous excitement. The tourists looked scared and confused, though I was glad to see that many of them were texting

onto a bus with an eager group of American and British tourists decked out in plaid shorts and sun hats and made the fourteen-kilometer trip from the hotel, across the Nile River

Witherspoon sat in the restaurant part of O'Lunney's among the Times Square tourists, watching the cops at the bar.

Walking the streets of San Francisco can be a frightening, demoralizing, even an unhealthy experience for residents and tourists alike.

The demographics and the psychographics show that there should be, over the longer term, a continued growth in the numbers of customers who will be shopping for luxury goods, both domestically - as well, international tourists come to the United States.

The problem isn't the tourists. It's the criminal element," said Serge. "That, and untended mental health problems. We have all these insane armed hobos coming from the Midwest, usually Ohio.

He watched her until she was lost among the tourists. Men and women alike turning to look after her. He thought that God's goodness appeared in strange places. Don't close your eyes.

De fapt, îmi plac turiÈ™tii, pentru c? oamenii sunt mult mai simpatici în vacan?? decât atunci când bat uÈ™ile birourilor.

group of tourists passed them. "We came with Amy and Woodrow Watson

So it wasn't tourists or encyclopaedia salesmen he was worried about.

Tourists and locals are watching from sidewalk cafes. Non-racers. The emptiness of those lives shocks me.