If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist.
In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.
Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.
I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.
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 deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside other travelers, such as anthropologists, colonists, missionaries, even tourists. I do that to emphasize subjectivity, rather than privilege any single perspective - I see myself as only one of many storytellers.
I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real) proves that we are not living in Judaea in 50 AD. . . . Saint Paul would never go near Disneyland. Only children, tourists, and visiting Soviet high officials ever go to Disneyland. Saints do not.
Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.
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'.
If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?
Personally, I would rather climb in the high mountains. I have always abhorred the tremendous heat, the dirt-filled cracks, the ant-covered foul-smelling trees and bushes which cover the cliffs, the filth and noise of Camp 4 (the climbers' campground), and worst of all, the multitudes of tourists which abound during the weekends and summer months.
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.
Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.
When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.
Our relationship with Nature. . . best way of forging this relationship. . . be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth
The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex.
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.
You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.
On the economy, the U. S. cumulatively is our most important investor, most important trading partner, most important sort of tourists, and we have now a tie that will. . . a link that will be here for many, many years to come, and that is the big Philippine-American community in the United States - three million of them.
The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.