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Quotes About Tourist

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
~ Russell Baker
A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.
~ Emile Ganest
The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.
~ Guillermo del Toro
The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.
~ Henry Adams
They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist attractions. But when the skies darkened and the nation called, both reawoke to the meaning of their existence. One shielded our bodies, the other, our souls.
~ Max Brooks
She was a stranger in her own life, a tourist in her own body.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Mimi had always harbored a secret love for limousines. It was tacky to use one in the city, lest you run the risk of looking like a tourist or like you were off to prom. But this one shone with a wicked gleam. She had to admit it; the guy traveled in style
~ Melissa de la Cruz
The viral video—four million views and counting—had been recorded on a tourist's iPhone in Central Park. On the screen, Hester's
~ Harlan Coben
Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. That's always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.
~ Curtis Stone
At the dealership, I pulled out the sieve and toyed with it threateningly. When the salesman was ready for me, I held it up, told him I was not a tourist and demanded a large discount.
~ Tahir Shah
On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't he said, 'Do you mind if I mug you here?'.
~ Paul Merton
I found Jerusalem to be a tourist trap. I hope that I don't offend anyone by saying that.
~ Mark Kozelek
I've always believed that as actors, one of the biggest advantages of being in the film business - not just of being actors, but being in this industry - is the fact that you get to travel so much, and you get to see places that you probably would not if you went just as a tourist.
~ Deepika Padukone
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
After I graduated from college, while traveling around Europe, hitchhiking, doing the tourist thing, I went into a church in Dublin.
~ Frederica Mathewes-Green
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
I had dreamed of something so different from what reality was now offering up, but that dream had been a blind man's vision. That dream was a miracle. The morning was fading. And I remembered yet again that I was a tourist here.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant 'idiot'.
~ Terry Pratchett
Dosflores era un turista, el primero del Mundodisco. Según decidió Rincewind, turista significaba «imbécil».
~ Terry Pratchett
I want to go to Australia and take the same goofy picture of me holding a koala that everyone else takes.
~ Jessi Klein
A "seducer" who boasts of initiating women into the mystery of love is like a stranger who arrives at a railroad station and offers to show the sights to a tourist guide.
~ Karl Kraus
Favorite Places: I'm not that good at being a tourist because I'm always looking at the way the light shines in your hair or the way your dress opens to the wind & my favorite places in the world are places filled with you.
~ Brian Andreas
The other day I went to a tourist information booth and asked, 'Tell me about some of the people who were here last year.
~ Steven Wright
By now, his morality coincided with his curiosity, probably always had. It was the unconditional curiosity of the tourist thirsty for knowledge; a curiosity that, in having tasted the mystery of personality, had perhaps not been all that far from realms emerging here; a curiosity that displayed something of a military character by not trying to evade something forbidden if it might offer itself.
~ Thomas Mann