Touristic Quotes & Sayings

If marijuana kills all my brain cells, then how come I can still hear them all talking to me? — Mike D

Why is the Chosen One always a he? — J.D. Cunegan

It is interesting that this thoroughness, which is a virtue, is often misunderstood. When someone says a thing has been done scientifically, often all he means is that it has been done thoroughly. I have heard people talk of the "scientific" extermination of the Jews in Germany. There was nothing scientific about it. It was only thorough. There was no question of making observations and then checking them in order to determine something. In that sense, there were "scientific" exterminations of people in Roman times and in other periods when science was not so far developed as it is today and not much attention was paid to observation. In such cases, people should say "thorough" or "thoroughgoing," instead of "scientific. — Richard Feynman

I'm just scared that you've fallen for the way he's treating you rather than for the man himself. — Jane Green

I suppose one of the things that interest me about acting is unpicking what makes people tick and why they do what they do and what it means to be human. — Hattie Morahan

As far as my New York influence, one thing I'm proud of in my career is, I rep Brooklyn, New York all day. But people don't look at my music as New York music. People consider my music underground music. — Talib Kweli

The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flute. — Shawn Amos

Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa. — Ingmar Bergman

My aim here was much more straightforward and objective - just to see whether I could match income to expenses, as the truly poor attempt to do every day. Besides, I've had enough unchosen encounters with poverty in my lifetime to know it's not a place you would want to visit for touristic purposes; it just smells too much like fear. — Barbara Ehrenreich

The Tower is not a usual spectacle; to enter the Tower, to scale it, to run around its courses, is, in a manner both more elementary and more profound, to accede to a view and to explore the interior of an object (though an openwork one), to transform the touristic rite into and adventure of sight and of the intelligence. — Roland Barthes

Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic,
but let each man bear his shield straight toward the fore-fighters,
regarding his own life as hateful and holding the dark spirits of death as dear as the radiance of the sun. — Tyrtaeus

Fiery the Angels rose, and as they rose deep thunder roll'd
Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc ... — William Blake

We found our own synchronicity together, his heart thumping out a slow. steady beat and mine filling in the spaces between — Jessi Kirby

I yearn to tell you finally everything that is written only on paper, so dead, so empty and so boring. — Sarah Wildman

I recognize only the Holy Pilgrimage of Science to the Land of Truths! All other pilgrimages are nothing but touristic trips! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Define yourself, don't be an imitation. — Debasish Mridha

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question. — Dorianne Laux

Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer. — Immaculee Ilibagiza

When I embraced the rock hat, when I put it on two or three years ago, when I realized I'm gonna go and make really focused rock albums, it felt like wearing an old shoe. It was a perfect fit. — Glenn Hughes