Tourists Quotes · Page 5

I'd rather lie bare-assed naked on the sidewalk and be trampled by tourists from South Dakota than be an accountant.

— Anonymous

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has…

— Mario Batali

I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf.

— Tom Robbins

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

— Klaus Kinski

I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.

— Daniel Boulud

A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I want to see.

— Paul Theroux

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Your responsibility is to be an explorer, not a tourist in this adventure that is your life.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask…

— Mohsin Hamid

They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give…

— Mike Schmidt

One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and…

— Nancy Mitford

It may be no surprise that Pittsburgh has direct flights to London, Paris and Frankfurt, but consider this: many of the tourists…

— Bill Dedman

I live in the area where the Hollywood sign is. Every afternoon, I'll take a daily walk, and there are loads of…

— James Michael Tyler

The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the…

— Richard Conniff

Even in a city like Barcelona, there are still some people in the city who are angry because that waterfront area is…

— Gary Hustwit

There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the…

— Paul Theroux

I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go…

— Tony Kushner

In Barcelona, things seem so different. For example, I know that it's traditionally the least Spanish city, but you'd never know they…

— Julie Burchill

The English tourist in American literature wants above all things something different from what he has at home. For this reason the…

— Virginia Woolf

Those who believe for a while make only a brief tour in the kingdom, though thereafter they often feel qualified to inform…

— Neal A. Maxwell

I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money…

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape…

— Terry Pratchett

Anything to declare? the customs inspector said."Two pound of uncut heroin and a manual of pornographic art," Mark answered, looking about for…

— Leon Uris

“We tourists, I later found out, were invited on purpose. Like all good tourists everywhere, we wore an assortment of badly fitting…

— Glenn Dixon

I'm a tourist, a glorified tourist. I'm not doing it to have a good time or to lie in the sun.

— Paul Theroux

Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.

— Brian De Palma

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

— Evelyn Waugh

A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.

— Emile Genest

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

— Agnes Repplier

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

— Russell Baker

Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. I don't want them to come. Stay home!

— Fran Lebowitz

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

— Lawrence Block

After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.

— Edgar Bergen

The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Every time, every time a tourist or an immigrant or a refugee shows up in another country there's a security risk.

— Justin Trudeau

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I went to the flea market in the morning and charged tourists money to take pictures of me. I looked pretty wild,…

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

There are a bunch of places to stay in Des Moines, but I'd suggest finding a place on the west side of…

— Zach Johnson

I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now,…

— Brian Setzer

“When we told our guide that we didn't want to go to all the tourist places he took us instead to the…

— Douglas Adams