Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
It is charming the way everyone in the South says, 'Come back.' This is the regulation farewell at gas stations, soda fountains,… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
There's pride on Bourbon Street for the musicians that work there. They take it very seriously. I've never worked there or played… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
Though they control scores of industrial, commercial, mining and tourist corporations, not one bears the name Rothschild. Being private partnerships, the family… — Frederic Morton Copy Share Image
The First Lady asked me how many people passed through the White House on tours. When I told her thousands did, she… — Clark Clifford Copy Share Image
“Visitors are informed, but what do they feel? I can't find the warmth of Versailles in such blandness, and I don't think… — Alain Baraton Copy Share Image
Meanwhile it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are sitting in a glassy tourist cafe… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
We are all here on this planet, as it were, as tourists. None of us can live here forever. The longest we… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III Copy Share Image
Richard Price got a million dollar advance on one fake film book based on a paragraph outline and is able to seduce… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I would go to newsstands and buy paperbacks they were selling for tourists, usually bestsellers and mass market paperbacks. In the beginning,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Many travelers are essentially fantasists. Tourists are timid fantasists, the others - risk takers - are bold fantasists. The tourists at Etosha… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I've got to get the ultimate in composition today. or I've got to get the ultimate in light, I'll stay here until… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“The experts are right, he thought. Venice is sinking. The whole city is slowly dying. One day the tourists will travel here… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The second mode to deal with unsafe cities is to take refuge in vehicles. This is the technique practiced in the big… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though… — John Cage Copy Share Image
I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside… — Susan Meiselas Copy Share Image
The people on the streets just say 'hi' and let me walk on. They take relatively few photos, and those that do… — Manuel Neuer Copy Share Image
It's more about subtracting every single buck from the tourists that still flock there. Gentrification and the need for developers to maximize… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On the economy, the U.S. cumulatively is our most important investor, most important trading partner, most important sort of tourists, and we… — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Copy Share Image
I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
