Tourists Quotes

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I quit flying years ago. I don`t want to die with tourists.

- Billy Bob Thornton

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

- Brigitte Bardot

How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I`m sure I`ll end up there, or I`ll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I`ll get more tourists to Graceland that way.

- Lisa Marie Presley

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

It`s tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It`s so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work.

- Delta Burke

It will have all the news from Africa. We have music. We have a couple of talk shows. We have tourists shows. We have history.

- Dikembe Mutombo

There`s no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a sort of Disneyland at the French Quarter for tourists. The rest I don`t know.

- Geraldo Rivera

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

- Henry Thomas

(Irving, who once called the Auschwitz death camp a) Disneyland for tourists, ... an active Holocaust denier ... anti-Semitic and racist.

- Charles Gray

All the tourists we find really enjoy that `cause it is the Australian barbecue.

- Leonard Davis

I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.

- William Howard Taft

There`s no reason that the cruise stuff can`t get back up and running, ... demand (from cruise lines) could change with the fact that the city can`t accommodate tourists.

- David Wagner

Our goal is to put together a unique trip at an affordable price. We try hard to get exchanges going with students. There?s a clear cultural value. We?re part of the scenery, not tourists on a bus. It?s a person-to-person relationship.

- Gary Robinson

I was pleased that we`ve agreed to work together to deepen significantly the flows of investment, technology, and tourists in both directions.

- James Peterson

These attractions can open in six months, but it`s questionable whether there will be any tourists there by then. It`s going to be years before the New Orleans tourist industry comes back. Once engineers get inside a lot of those buildings, they`ll discover damage that wasn`t visible. A lot of buildings will have to be torn down or completely rebuilt.

- Steve Baker

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

- Lawrence Block

Instead of sitting in his office, he wanted to walk, so we would walk outside the court. There would be lots of tourists outside waiting to get into the court, anxious to see the action, and we would walk right by, with them not recognizing him, ... That was very much the way the chief was -- very unassuming, very straightforward about the way he went about his work. He was a very genuine, Midwestern man.

- David Hoffman

We attract tourists to these regions where we can`t guarantee their security,

- Reinhold Messner

Los Angeles International and Burbank airports are flooded with tourists, which businesses want to avoid.

- Michael Ross

We don`t want to make it cost prohibitive. It defeats your whole purpose to price yourself out of business. We`ve had some tourists stop in, but it is local people who support us.

- Olivia Olsen

I did not feel `evil` when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.

- Alan Shaw

With everything it has to offer, Las Vegas is an obvious destination for tourists, as proven by the over 40 million visitors the city welcomes per year.

- Allan Meltzer

On a practical level, the design creates a new direct link to Governors Island for both tourists and Island workers from both Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. The system is very light, using only three supports, none of which stands in the water, so the shipping channels are left completely open.

- Andy Ringstaff

The museums particularly affected were on the Royal Mile, the focal point for tourists in the city.

- Ann Dumas

We simply don`t want residents and tourists to see the Royal Mile in this kind of shape,

- Antoine Deneriaz

The attractions are open, the beach as you can see is just beautiful. So, yeah, we`re ready for our tourists to come home.

- Anton Krucky

We forget a very important part of this thing is the multiplier effect it will have just by its presence here, ... And that is hotels, restaurants, homes and the entire support system needed to accommodate 4 million tourists per year. It all makes for a real win for Utah.

- Arthur Cheliotes

The nice thing is it brings a lot of tourists to the community, and a lot of dollars to the community.

- Barbara Webb

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

- Agnes Repplier

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

- Russell Baker