Tourists Quote by Russell Baker Download Open image “The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” — Russell Baker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Tourists Worst Worst thing
To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I'm not a good tourist. I don't like walking around and looking at things. I like being in a city and working and finding… — Marian Seldes Copy Share Image
“To become a tourist assumes a certain vulnerability, to wear the wrong shoes and not know the right times for meals. To drive too… — Edmond Manning Copy Share Image
“The distinction often seems precarious. Both traveler and tourist are, by definition, separate from their environment. We like to think that the role we… — Richard Todd Copy Share Image
“TO BE A TOURIST is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed… — David Foster Wallace 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 is as… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
A tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists? — Robert Orben 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 Chichacestenango -… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license plates, and it's something… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
[Michael] Felix and other immigration attorneys say it's possible [Melania] Trump was doing what a lot of models do - working illegally on a… — Hansi Lo Wang 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 and high… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
“Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everyone is in a hurry. The persons whom I lead in worship, among whom I counsel, visit, pray, preach, and teach, want shortcuts. They… — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
What most people don't understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That's why they're always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real) proves that we are not living in Judaea in 50 AD.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist. — Edgar Bergen Copy Share Image