Touristy Quotes & Sayings

If you're famous, you're not free. — Tadanobu Asano

Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated. — Roger Ebert

With their big hit, PiL had reached a whole new generation of fans, and the gig had sold out very fast. But right down at the front were a crowd of about three to four hundred hardcore, old-school punks who had come creeping out of the squats of Camden and Shepherd's Bush to greet their hero. To — Simon Parkes

I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking ... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all. — Cote De Pablo

Fall in love with a weird one - someone not quite right in the head - life is far more interesting when love is odd — Topher Kearby

Salem is such a cool little town that's very touristy. It's fun to walk around all the shops and get the feeling there. — Sheri Moon Zombie

Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings. — Juvenal

When I was on Broadway when I was little, I remember always driving through Times Square with my dad to the theater. Now when I go back, you can't even drive on Broadway in the 40s. New Times Square is too touristy to me. — Jenna Ushkowitz

The facade of the building bore an array of saints in their niches and they had been shot up by American troops trying their rifles, the figures shorn of ears and noses and darkly mottled with leadmarks oxidized upon the stone. — Cormac McCarthy

He was determined to be the most touristy tourist who had ever touristed, — John Scalzi

Too touristy a move for such a sophisticate as moi? Of course. But there is a reason certain activities become touristy, no? My — Harlan Coben

Belize has a tropical climate and is quite affordable and is developing a reputation as an inexpensive Hawaii. If you want to hide away someplace that is extremely low-key, Placencia is perfect. San Pedro is more touristy and modernized. — Kenneth Choi

I got in before SoHo was SoHo. It was just Little Italy when I was in there. It's still off the touristy track. It's just away from the Saturday action, the crowds and everything. It's too expensive. It's insane. You've got to be a billionaire to live on Manhattan now. — Joni Mitchell

'Onward' was a song I wrote in Montreux, in Switzerland, when we were there camping out for the whole winter. In the summer, Montreux is a really, really big summertime-touristy, full-of-life kind of place. In the winter, it closes down. — Chris Squire

The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be. — James Cameron

I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go! — Jeremy Northam

You exist only because God wills that you exist. — Rick Warren

Believe in yourself and be proud of who you are. Don't let anyone tell you differently. There is beauty in everyone and no one should stop you from growing into a confident and strong young person. — June Sarpong

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Make do. — Stephen King

Even though I wore an eye patch, the Cyclops and I, we didn't see eye to eye. We argued about the nature of love, and I hated it, so in the name of love I had to stab him. — Jarod Kintz

Monsieur Ibrahim: To find out if a country is rich or poor, look at the bins. If there are bins and no rubbish, it's rich. If there's rubbish by the bins, it's neither rich nor poor... it's touristy. And if there's rubbish but no bins, then it's poor. — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I used to live above Manganaro's, when old Times Square was still peaking, and it still had a lot of diners and theaters on the forty deuce, as they used to call it. It was full of character. And it wasn't Disneyland. Now it's so touristy and full of bright lights, I can't stand it. It's like going to a big mall. — Debi Mazar

Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me. — Frances Mayes

And the game of dominoes is much like life: You gotta play the bones you've pulled. It don't matter if you got seven doubles in your damn hand. — S.B. Redd

Take what happened to me in Bali. I planned on going to Ubud, then met a man on an airplane who told me it was too touristy. He gave me an address on the other side of the island, which turned out to be a palace where I lived for four years. — Rita Gelman

Eat where the people eat, not the hotels and touristy restaurants. If a local teacher makes $50 a month and they're living decently, see what they do. — Rita Gelman

Sometimes when I'm bored, I like to people watch. And I got to a touristy area and I play this game I just made up. I call it Lesbian or Midwestern? — Bonnie McFarlane

When you let intution have its way with you, you open up new levels of the world. Such opening-up is the most practical of all activities. — Evelyn Underhill