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

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Author:Banksy

“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 the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there.”

People Helping Running Opinion Travel Fantastic Tourists Imposing

Book:Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour

Source: Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour

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

Dangerous Destination Ukraine Tourists Tourism

Author:Garry Kasparov

“I don't want to be an island. I want to be more of a tourist attraction. You stop here, I take your money and you go.”

Want Attraction Islands Tourists

Author:Richard Sherman

“Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous. Quaint, when used to describe the occasional village through which they passed, meant fever-ridden and tumbledown. Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, mean 'idiot'.”

Firsts Mean Use Used Decided Inspired Careful Observation Landscape Idiot Colour Village Occasional Fever Tourists Discworld Quaint Picturesque Rincewind

Book:The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)

Source: The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)

“There's nothing American tourists like more than the things they can get at home.”

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Author:Stephen Colbert

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

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Author:William Cornelius Van Horne

“In this new war, our enemy's platoons infiltrate our borders, quietly blending in with visiting tourists, students, and workers. They move unnoticed through our cities, neighborhoods, and public spaces. They wear no uniforms. Their camouflage is not forest green, but rather it is the color of common street clothing. Their tactics rely on evading recognition at the border and escaping detection within the United States. Their terrorist mission is to defeat America, destroy our values and kill innocent people.”

“Everyone is in a hurry. The persons whom I lead in worship, among whom I counsel, visit, pray, preach, and teach, want shortcuts. They want me to help them fill in the form that will get them instant credit (in eternity). They are impatient for results. They have adopted the lifestyle of a tourist and only want the high points. . . . The Christian life cannot mature under such conditions and in such ways.”

Source: The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“The commercial theatre may still be considered one of New York's primary tourist attractions, but . . . there is no longer an audience for serious Broadway plays. . . . Perhaps we should acknowledge that, having lost its traditional audience, Broadway can never again be a home for new plays.”

Should May Stills Play Home Lost Audience New York Serious Attraction Theatre Traditional Crafts Primaries Acknowledge Broadway Tourists

Author:Robert Brustein

“In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in the blue shade of her pavements. Here was a dreamy stillness, a swaying, the splash of an oar. Then, when I least expected it, suddenly I stepped out into the great square, the sunlight, and she was a flock of birds scattering with soft cries in my arms.”

Lost Cities Cry Arms Bird Blue Expected Flesh Worried Maps Shade Squares Stillness Sunlight Tourists Venice Flocks Pavement Dreamy Oar Swaying

Book:The Newton Letter

Source: The Newton Letter

“The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies; some were kept on to entertain the tourists, like the one they have in England.”

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Book:Airing Dirty Laundry

Source: Airing Dirty Laundry

“We want Old Town Square to be a focal point for fun in Bandera, a place where locals can hold their special events and meetings, or just visit us for a relaxing dinner with friends on the patio. Likewise, tourists can use Old Town Square as a home base during their visit to Bandera. They can stay overnight and dine with us, but also explore all that Bandera has to offer. This was the place to come to. We want to make it that kind of place again.”

Want Kind Use Home Fun Special Events Offers Towns Meetings Dinner Locals Squares Tourists Dine Focal Point Home Base Special Events Dinner With Friends

Author:Jerry Reed

“My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more real and meaningful relationship. The spicy teas and tasty delicacies I prepare from wild ingredients are the bread and wine in which I have communion and fellowship with nature, and with the Author of that nature.”

Real Wine Mere Affair Meaningful Satisfied Bread Tea Ingredients Communion Crave Fellowship Love Affair Tourists Delicacy Spicy Tasty Bread And Wine Meaningful Relationship

Author:Euell Gibbons

“Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera.”

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Author:Eliot Porter

“You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.”

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Book:Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)

Source: Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)

“We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.”

May Law Common Travel Tolerance Recognition Platforms Impossibility Laws Of Nature Tourists Meditating Amenities

Book:Compromises

Source: Compromises

“The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect.”

Lines Economy Effects Simplicity Shops Elegance Tourists Austerity

Book:The Stones of Florence

Source: The Stones of Florence

“We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the same naive trust; a president with no conception of foreign policy and no discernible connection to the U.S. government, whose Nice Guyism will narrow the gap between the U.S. and us until nobody can tell the difference.”

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Book:Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

“I've taught the better class of tourist both to see and not to see; to lift their eyes above and beyond the inessentials, and thrill to our western Nature in her majesty.”

Eye Class Taught Western Lifts Thrill Majesty Tourists Above And Beyond

Author:Jonathan Raban

“You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.”

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Book:Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

“The basic Roman ruin design is a pile of rocks with a little plaque saying "Roman Ruins" and a group of tourists frowning at it and wishing they were back at the hotel bar.”

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Book:Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

“Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this.”

Forget Travel Deeds Boredom Crush Native Overwhelming Desperation Good And Bad Tourists Banality

Book:A Small Place

Source: A Small Place

“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 tourists like to say a lot because they've never been around so many mountains and moose before.”

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Author:Tom Bodett

“Traveling for modeling has been great, but I never really have much time to live the tourist life while in all the different cities.”

Has Beens Different Cities Modeling Tourists

Author:Rila Fukushima

“I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.”

“Life cannot be classified in terms of a simple neurological ladder, with human beings at the top; it is more accurate to talk of different forms of intelligence, each with its strengths and weaknesses. This point was well demonstrated in the minutes before last December's tsunami, when tourists grabbed their digital cameras and ran after the ebbing surf, and all the 'dumb' animals made for the hills.”

“If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.”

Ifs Feels Home America Culture Grew Grew Up British Tourists

Author:Rebecca Hall

“The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to be guided through the favelas of Brazil and the shantytowns of South Africa. The recently opened Los Angeles Gang Tour carries visitors through battle-scarred territories of urban violence and deprivation.”

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Author:Leslie Jamison

“Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel.”

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Author:James Howard Kunstler

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