Guidebook Quotes

If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good and who's bad. I've even considered writing a guidebook. (Steffi Graf)
There is no definitive guidebook on how to pick the right partner, and even if there were, I'm way too dumb to write it. View quote
Justin Halpern
On the seat opposite him was an American tourist. The pattern of his clothes, of his overcoat, the grip he carried, down to his hopeful friendliness and his naïve absorption in the scenery, even the guidebook in his hand, all gave him away and proclaimed him a small town American seeing Europe for the first time. In another minute or so, Poirot judged, he would break into speech. His wistful dog-like expression could not be mistaken. View quote
Agatha Christie
Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant. View quote
John Muir
For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written. View quote
Aldous Huxley
I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy. View quote
Adam Hamilton
The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look. View quote
John Vinocur
Just ask the local people for the best food. Don't rely on a guidebook. View quote
Masaharu Morimoto
For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century. View quote
Nathaniel Philbrick
Your passions are a bit like your fingerprints: Everybody has them; everybody's are different. One's passions may just be a guidebook to one's life. View quote
Nick Woodman
You don't need a guidebook to see New Orleans - just a good pair of shoes. (James Carville)
It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories. View quote
Jhumpa Lahiri
People need to know why we, as the Jewish people, have a right to be here. We need to tell people what we are doing here... My tourism guidebook is the Bible. View quote
Ariel Sharon