#tourists

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#been #going #know #tourists #travelers

The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#america #american #could #effort #everything

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

— Agnes Repplier

#lost #may #other #them #tourist

As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#long #market #old #south #tourists

Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#had #i #idea #kind #make

Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats. ↗

— Henry Thomas

#family #mail #photograph #threats #tourists

We are each other's seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too. ↗

— Sellapan Ramanathan

#businessmen #children #each #exchanges #fifth

The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#china #currency #empire #hard #infusion

After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists. ↗

— Dorothy Dunnett

#after #convinced #give #give me #got

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. You're expected to be stupid. The entire mechanism of the host country is geared to travelers acting stupidly. You walked around dazed, squinting into fold-out maps. You don't know how to talk to people, how to get anywhere, what the money means, what time it is, what to eat or how to eat it. Being stupid is the pattern, the level and the norm. You can exist on this level for weeks and months without reprimand or dire consequence. Together with thousands, you are granted immunities and broad freedoms. You are an army of fools, wearing bright polyesters, riding camels, taking pictures of each other, haggard, dysentric, thirsty. There is nothing to think about but the next shapeless event. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#tourists #freedom