Tourists Quotes

I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.

— Anais Nin

You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.

— Louis C. K

I'm like a tourist when I'm in London.

— Erin O'Connor

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant ‘idiot.

— Terry Pratchett

Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them?

— George Carlin

I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.

— Billy Bob Thornton

If we can't export the scenery, we'll import the tourists.

— William Cornelius Van Horne

I'm not really a tourist attraction kind of guy.

— Josh Hartnett

You might be a redneck if your beer can collection is considered a tourist attraction in your home town.

— Jeff Foxworthy

“I think that's the point of view of an outsider, a tourist who puts picturesqueness above everything else.”

— Paul Bowles

Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American…

— Robert Orben

The Russian Dept of Tourism has declared Ukraine its most dangerous destination. Many Russian tourists have disappeared there.

— Garry Kasparov

Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.

— F. Sionil Jose

When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.

— Michael Franti

“Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”

— Paul Theroux

When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.

— Banksy

Ukraine announced plans to open Chernobyl, their nuclear disaster site, to tourists. They say it's just like Disneyland, except the 6-foot mouse…

— Conan O'Brien

I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I…

— John Galliano

Don't be a tourist. Plan less. Go slowly. I traveled in the most inefficient way possible and it took me exactly where…

— Andrew Evans

There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may…

— Geraldo Rivera

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed…

— Arthur Erickson

“There is a class of tourists who never seem to see the things they're visiting, I thought. They prefer to look at…

— Stephen Clarke

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

“Besides, tourists go out there all the time. The volcano can't be that dangerous." "I'm guessing the tourists aren't trying to steal…

— Andrea Cremer

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

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

— Terry Pratchett

“The distinction often seems precarious. Both traveler and tourist are, by definition, separate from their environment. We like to think that the…

— Richard Todd

You avoid the overcrowding of tourist locations by traveling in off-season. That is now one of the major rules of smart travel…

— Arthur Frommer

and because what we learn in the dark remains all our lives, a noise like the sea, displacing the day's pale knowledge,…

— John Burnside

I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real) proves that we are not living in Judaea in…

— Philip K. Dick

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

— Tony Kushner

But it does no good--solves nothing--to distance myself from the front lines of human need by using the mail as a safe…

— Robert Fulghum

I felt tired for the first time, and I thought of us lying down on some grassy patch of SeaWorld together, me…

— John Green

“None of the characters in (the story) were distinguished ones -- not even the lion. He was an old lion, prepared from…

— Beryl Markham

Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a…

— Zoketsu Norman Fischer

“Do you know who I am?" she demanded. "Well, you're Night, I suppose," said Annabeth. "I mean, I can tell because you're…

— Rick Riordan

But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are…

— Jamaica Kincaid

It's time now to rent a car, roll down the windows and prepare for your first big thrill: the freeways. They're so…

— John Waters

“I began to think of myself as a perennial tourist. There was something agreeable about this. To be a tourist is to…

— Don DeLillo