Top 258 Tourist Quotes & Sayings

My wife is a much better tourist than me.

I'm not really a tourist attraction kind of guy.

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 material. “Right,” Anna told him. “Buck up. You might even enjoy it.” “You might as well have ‘hapless victim’ tattooed across your forehead,” he muttered.

The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.

Do you ever have the feeling you're a tourist on earth?

Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango - with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to-date scripts for actors on the tourists' stage.

Puerto Rico still has the wherewithal to be a tourist destination.

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.

I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.

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

I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.

The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and deceit attack him at every step; the shops that he patronizes are full of forgeries... But we need feel no scruple or twinge of uncertainty; 'we' are travelers and cosmopolitans; the tourist is the other fellow.

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

In Porto, it's a tourist city. It's close to the river, the ocean as well. There's a lot of history.

I don't mind being a tourist at all, and a gawker. I just walk around.

I'm not a good tourist, I don't like tourism.

When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.

You know what they call a good looking girl in Philadelphia... a tourist.

The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the traveler that which has been discovered by the mind working in history,the tourist that which has been discovered by entrepreneurship and prepared for him by the arts of mass publicity.If the explorer moves toward the risks of the formless and the unknown, the tourist moves toward the security of pure cliché. It is between these two poles that the traveler mediates.

If its tourist season, why cant we shoot them

After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.

Tourist trips to Cuba are being abused. They are tourist trips that are providing hard currency for a dictatorial, tyrannical regime to get hard currency that it uses to oppress its people. And that's why these trips need to be carefully scrutinized.

Of all noxious animals, the most noxious is a tourist. And of all tourists the most vulgar, ill-bred, offensive and loathsome is the British tourist.

America loses so much of what defines it if you subtract the Chinese influence. I know this because I spent 12 years living in one of America's most popular tourist destinations: San Francisco. And it would not be one of America's top tourist destinations without Chinatown.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

I tend to stay away from the big tourist traps.

To be a tourist is to escape accountability.

I'm like a tourist when I'm in London.

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

A tourist is an ugly human being.

The name Jack was given by an American tourist.

When I land in a new country, I'm a tourist. I can't become a local in one day.

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant ‘idiot.

A tourist follows a trail; a mountaineer finds one.

The tourist board have put a bounty on me head, but they like the biz from tourists.

My next climb is going to be a tourist troll in a wheelchair.

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

In fact, Tibet is one of the most popular European tourist attraction of asia.

Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.

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

I cannot escape the feeling that I was, at best, a cancer tourist, that my survival means I dabbled.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

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 inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.

There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.

The danger is that you can wind up doing tourist pictures. I want to see it fresh and see the little bits of everyday life that a native might take for granted, but that are special to the place, while at the same time, not taking a picture that would be a tourist cliché.

I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.

The way you get to explore a city when you are on shoot is so different from when you are there as a tourist.

To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.

Bourbon Street is like playing, a tourist, you know? It's just a tourist attraction ... those musicians on Bourbon Street, they play all day. They might start at 12 noon and end at 3 in the morning, like, it's like sets, like a job. You go play, take a break, play again, take a break, then later on that night, the club gets busier, then you play some more. There's pride. They're a group of great musicians- and they're holding it down.

I found Jerusalem to be a tourist trap. I hope that I don't offend anyone by saying that.

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

Yosemite Valley is like a tourist zoo. It's shameful.

You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.

The different weather conditions make India the ideal tourist destination.

I'm a tourist, a glorified tourist. I'm not doing it to have a good time or to lie in the sun.

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'.

What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.

You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.

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