Terri and her mother arrived. She was obviously a dedicated stage mother because she was loaded down with camera equipment, looking like a Japanese tourist.
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.
More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.
The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.
To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.
My next climb is going to be a tourist troll in a wheelchair.
Do you ever have the feeling you're a tourist on earth?
But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are too poor to escape the reality of their lives; and they are too poor to live properly in the place where they live, which is the very place you, the tourist, want to go--so when the natives see you, the tourist, they envy you, they envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom, they enjoy your ability to turn their own banality and boredom into a source of pleasure for yourself.
In an instant he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that he would speak loudly and slowly in his own language.
I'm a tourist, a glorified tourist. I'm not doing it to have a good time or to lie in the sun.
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.
The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.
I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.
To be a tourist is to escape accountability.
You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.
I'm not really a tourist attraction kind of guy.
. . . the tourist Venice is Venice.
The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.
Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them?
Our relationship with Nature. . . best way of forging this relationship. . . be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth
