Tourist Quotes

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. (Susan Sontag)
Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveller. View quote
Ira Levin
The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters. View quote
Robert Morley
Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. That's always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat. View quote
Curtis Stone
The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists. View quote
Sam Ewing
I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the '50's. View quote
Brian Setzer
We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist. View quote
Marc Almond
I was a mere tourist with no part whatever in this great conflict; but it was my rare privilege, through an unusual train of circumstances, to witness the moving scenes that I have resolved to describe. In these pages I give only my personal impressions; so my readers should not look here for specific details, nor for information on strategic matters; these things have their place in other writings. View quote
Henry Dunant
The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires. View quote
Banksy
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. View quote
John Cage
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. (G. K. Chesterton)
My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection. View quote
Ryszard Kapuściński
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. View quote
Anaïs Nin
I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended...The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China. View quote
Cameron Diaz
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. View quote
Agnes Repplier
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." View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
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. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back. View quote
Tim Roth
A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in. View quote
Thomas H. Cook
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. View quote
John Galliano
The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before. (Arthur Erickson)
Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps. View quote
Carl Honore
I'm still walking around New York like a tourist staring up at all the skyscrapers. I wave at people, I shake hands, I help ladies with strollers. View quote
Jack McBrayer
My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year. View quote
Mickey Gilley
They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there. View quote
Mike Schmidt