Best Tourists Thoughts
204 Tourists quotes by 182 unique authors
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Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant ‘idiot.
— Terry Pratchett
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You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.
— Khaled Hosseini
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability.
— Don DeLillo
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If you're dressed for my funeral, it's too casual. If it's just street clothes, then you must be scaring the tourists.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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...to be injured on this tundra would lead to a quick and painful death—or at the very least abject humiliation before the popping flashes of…
— Eoin Colfer
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America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on that monocled, pith-helmeted…
— Malcolm X
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I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's…
— Connie Willis
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David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and…
— Douglas Adams
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I'd rather lie bare-assed naked on the sidewalk and be trampled by tourists from South Dakota than be an accountant.
— Nora Roberts
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In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions.…
— Mohsin Hamid
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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
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Journeys up the Metaphoric River are hugely enjoyable and highly recommended. Since every genre is nourished by its heady waters, a paddle steamer can take…
— Jasper Fforde
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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…
— Max Brooks
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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
— Evelyn Waugh
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Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.
— Alex Garland
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Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
— John Green
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Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler
— Ira Levin
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and because what we learn in the dark remains all our lives, a noise like the sea, displacing the day's pale knowledge, you'll come to…
— John Burnside
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The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers of resilience, self-protection,…
— Thomas Wolfe
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When is the last time you were a tourist?” she asked archly. He just looked at her. Charles, she had to agree, was not tourist…
— Patricia Briggs
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Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very…
— Tahir Shah
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I had seen that look before, on the faces of tourists visiting the Texas Book Depository in Dallas where Lee Harvey Oswald took the shots…
— David Wong
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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…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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We’re all tourists, sort of. Life is tourism, sort of. As far as I’m concerned, the dinosaurs still hold the lease on this godforsaken rock.
— Chuck Klosterman
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Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler belonging no more to one place than…
— Paul Bowles
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