Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good,… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
There was always something sickening about tourists taking pictures of themselves posing in front of that big gaping hole called Ground Zero. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
I had dreamed of something so different from what reality was now offering up, but that dream had been a blind man's… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
“I heard the tinkle of the welcome bells above the restaurant entrance. Probably an out-of-towner who didn’t know that the restaurant was… — Suzanne M. Trauth Copy Share Image
I have long argued that we need to reopen Alcatraz to house government criminals, and let tourists on excursion boats in San… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Tahiti has always been like a girl. She should be approached with caution, taking plenty of time and be enjoyed. Instead tourists… — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
My staff tells me not to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway. In the summer because of the heat… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
Tourists came around and looked into our tipis. That those were the homes we choose to live in didn't bother them at… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Parents who want a fresh point of view on their furniture are advised to drop down on all fours and accompany the… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If you sort of see yourself writing into a space that you don't always recognize, you sometimes learn things that you knew,… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
To be proactive is to educate yourself and get the word out via social media, or through one of the many animal-welfare… — Katie Cleary 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
I'm completely uninterested in the origins of Stonehenge. I don't care about the real story behind it or whether it should be… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can… — Rose George Copy Share Image
