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“Travel wasn't fun if you didn't get to see or do what you wanted; it was merely a different type of work, in a different place.”

Work Travel Sightseeing

Book:The Expats

Source: The Expats

“I drove all the way to Cape Disappointment but didn't have the energy to get out of the car. Rental. Blue Ford Focus. I had to stop in a semi-public place to pee on the ground. Just squatted there on the roadside. I don't know what's up with my bladder. I pee and then I have to pee and pee again. Instead of sightseeing I climbed into the back seat of the car and took a nap. I'm a little like Frank O'Hara without the handsome nose and penis and New York School and Larry Rivers. Paid for a day pass at Cape Disappointment thinking hard about that long drop from the lighthouse to the sea. Thought about going into the Ocean Medical Center for a checkup but how do I explain this restless search for beauty or relief?”

Poetry Beauty Poem Illness Relief Sightseeing

Book:frank: sonnets

Source: frank: sonnets

“The afternoon at the Pyramids was duly enjoyable. Victoria, though reasonably fond of children, might have enjoyed it more without Mrs. Kitchin’s offspring. Children when sight‐ seeing is in progress are apt to be somewhat of a handicap. The youngest child became so fretful that the two women returned earlier from the expedition than they had meant to do.”

Children Humor Travel Sightseeing

Book:They Came to Baghdad

Source: They Came to Baghdad

“Is there more to see?" Brixton asks. "No. Just a long walk back to hope.”

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Book:The Geri Rogue

Source: The Geri Rogue

“whenever i am in pain, i just think of watching your eye's in rain!”

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Author:A.R.Maria

“Arguably, the Malecón is the most photographed street in Havana. It lies as a bulwark just across the horizon from the United States, which is only 90 treacherous miles away. It is approximately 5 miles long, following the northern coast of the city from east to west. This broad boulevard is ideal for the revelers partaking in parades and is the street used for Fiesta Mardi Gras, known in Cuba as Los Carnavales. It has also been used for “spontaneous demonstrations” against the United States. It runs from the entrance to Havana harbor at the Morro Castle, Castillo del Morro, alongside the Centro Habana neighborhood to the Vedado neighborhood, past the United States Embassy on the Calle Calzada. Since 1977, the renovated Embassy building has housed the United States Interests Section in Havana. The Malecón is also known as a street where both male and female prostitutes ply their trade. At the present time, most of the buildings that line this once magnificent coastal boulevard are in ruins, which doesn’t stop it from being a spectacular and popular esplanade for an evening walk by residents and tourists alike.”

Caribbean Captain Hank Bracker Cuban History Sightseeing

Author:Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba"

“If you are going to have an adventure around the world, it really helps if you can get it by working for international employers.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“A daily appointment with mother nature keeps one from booking an appointment with the doctor.”

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Book:These Words Burn Like Fire

Source: These Words Burn Like Fire

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”

“I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.”

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Author:Arsene Wenger

“I'm lucky in that I travel a lot for work. I also manage several holidays a year. I'm not someone who sits in the sun or goes sightseeing, though. If I go away, it will be for fishing or something like that.”

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Author:Vinnie Jones

“I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence.”

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Author:Ashley Jensen

“Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments; it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing.”

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Book:Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

“So, I went to Germany and ended up parasailing around this castle. I was in Germany sightseeing, eating Bratwurst and hanging out in beer gardens. And then, I got back from Germany and got a call where they were like, "We need to fly you to New York tomorrow to read with Taylor [Schilling]." I was like, "Wait, for Alex, the manipulative drug-smuggling lesbian girl?!," and they were like, "Yeah."”

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Author:Laura Prepon

“Brynjolfsson and McAfee take us on a whirlwind tour of innovators and innovations around the world. But this isn't just casual sightseeing. Along the way, they describe how these technological wonders came to be, why they are important, and where they are headed.”

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Author:Hal Varian

“There's not much to be said for sightseeing. You go somewhere that has a waterfall. You have a beer, watch the water go over the edge, and move on. Tours are all the same. In the end, the only thing that matters is the beer.”

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Book:Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -

Source: Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -

“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.”

Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd

“When I'm on tour, I don't see these spots as much as I'd like. I'm just in, I perform, then I'm out. I hope to spend years sightseeing, then more years after that.”

Years Spots Sightseeing

Author:Sharon Jones

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”

“What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.”

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.”

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”

Source: Places

“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'”

Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

“Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.”

“I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

“Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.”

“Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.”

Art Disappointment Sightseeing

Book:The Silverado Squatters: Easyread Large Edition

Source: The Silverado Squatters: Easyread Large Edition

“I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.”

“I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.”

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Author:Lord Dunsany

“To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.”

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Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“To travel is to take a journey into yourself.”

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”

“Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.”

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Author:Lauren Hutton

“The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random, you will find something - a plastic flower, false tiles, some imitation something - something which can be appreciated as material only if apprehended by eyesight alone. Don't we go sightseeing in cars, thinking we can experience a landscape by looking at it through glass?”

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Author:Galway Kinnell

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

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.”

“Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.”

Play Actors Stage Invention Imaginative Rehearsing Sightseeing

Book:The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

Source: The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

“I see my path, but I don't know where it leads.”

“I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich.”

Looks Happens Funny Happenings Sight Things Happen Towers Sandwiches Sightseeing Pisa Leaning Tower Of Pisa

Author:Danny DeVito

“The only thing that matters is the theater!”

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Author:Lily Rabe

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”

“There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.”

“I'm not one for sightseeing or going around the shops when I'm on holiday. I do enough shopping when I'm at home, and like to have a complete break when I'm away.”

Enough Home Break Shops Holiday Shopping Sightseeing

Author:Paloma Faith

“I don't get to do as much sightseeing as I would like to.”

Author:Maria Sharapova