Tourists Quotes

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant ‘idiot.

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

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'.

The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

The people on the streets just say 'hi' and let me walk on. They take relatively few photos, and those that do are tourists. Munich natives are relatively relaxed. They pretty much leave me in peace and I think that's very good. The Bavarian mentality fits very well to me.

Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler

Don't be a tourist. Plan less. Go slowly. I traveled in the most inefficient way possible and it took me exactly where I wanted to go.

Every time, every time a tourist or an immigrant or a refugee shows up in another country there's a security risk.

Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, to me, it's completely spoiled all, all these places now. Make them all just tourist traps.

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

Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth

What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.

If its tourist season, why cant we shoot them

Wholesome food is wholesome food anywhere. I may not like something but, generally speaking, if it's a busy, street food stall serving mystery meat in India, they're in the business of serving their neighbors. They're not targeted toward a transient crowd of tourists that won't be around tomorrow. They're not in the business of poisoning their neighbors.

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection.

The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.

Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim.

Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them?

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.