Arthur Frommer Quotes

#1. If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single room!

Arthur Frommer

#2. Luckily you cannot get to the Golden Triangle in a bus. You can only access it on your own two feet!

Arthur Frommer

#3. Our long wanderings have made a man out of him, too. They have not only strengthened his frame and hardened his constitution, but they have given stability to his character. He is thoughtful and prudent, and his advice will always be valuable, while of his courage I have no doubt.

G.A. Henty

#4. As bellhop closes the door behind him, you are left with a feeling of security and relaxation. Your mind starts to drift, and you wonder to yourself, who else has stayed in this room?

Ann Benjamin

#5. It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.

Rand Paul

#6. What you create when you're teaching fiction writing is a kind of literary salon, not a social club or a mutual admiration society, not a debating society, not a repair shop, not a fight club or a soap box. It's a place to have a conversation about a story.

John Dufresne

#7. I always feel depressed when I go into a country under dictatorial rule.

Arthur Frommer

#8. I've had a good run. I've built a lot of things that work and a lot of things that didn't work.

Carroll Shelby

#9. [Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore.

Andrew Sullivan

#10. What a treasure of awesome sights and attractions our country has.

Arthur Frommer

#11. I regard Paris as a feast for the eyes, the senses and brain. It is a phenomenal city.

Arthur Frommer

#12. Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

George MacDonald

#13. Writing might never be an easy act, but with TBL, writers don't have to go at it alone.

Tethered By Letters

#14. When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

Will Rogers

#15. She began to wish he would die; yet she did not want him to die because then his salary would cease. And this irritated her against him still more. She considered herself dreadfully unhappy just because not even his death could save her,

Leo Tolstoy

#16. At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.

Arthur Frommer

#17. it's what breaks us down and makes us feel weak that builds us up and makes us stronger than before.

Kelly Elliott

#18. There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward.

Jeremy Northam

#19. I think there's been a reaction to the user generation source of travel information,

Arthur Frommer

#20. I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city.

Arthur Frommer

#21. Once abroad, I eat one meal a day picnic-style: Ive learned that no mature stomach can tolerate an endless routine of rich restaurant meals.

Arthur Frommer

#22. I find, on my own travels, that the most depressing form of culture shock is experienced when you go into a country that is under the thumb of a dictator.

Arthur Frommer

#23. In general, my advice is to seek out people and new ideas when you travel.

Arthur Frommer

#24. Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or history of its own.

Arthur Frommer

#25. Tourism does not go to a city that has lost its soul.

Arthur Frommer

#26. My favorite place that I've been to that most people haven't been to is the Golden Triangle in the northeast of Thailand, which is inhabited by people as if in the Stone Age, without any form of power, without running water, simply living in huts on stilts.

Arthur Frommer

#27. Nicaragua is becoming the least expensive Caribbean destination ...

Arthur Frommer