Quotes About A Tour Guide

#1. Teaching history to eighth graders is like being a tour guide for people who hate their vacation.

Chuck Klosterman

#2. Mark Dawidziak is as comfy and entertaining a tour guide through the world of Mark Twain as Twain himself was a tour guide through the world. In other words, Mark Twain's Guide is such a fun read that the only thing dry about it is the ink.

David Bianculli

#3. I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.

Harlan Coben

#4. I used to work as a tour guide for Americans. I'm convinced that even after four weeks on the road they had no idea where they had been. They were in a bubble.

Greg Wise

#5. You're like a tour guide for reality.

Julie Reece Deaver

#6. When I was at U.C.L.A., I worked my way through school as a tour guide at Universal Studios, and I came in contact with a lot of people in the agency business.

Michael Ovitz

#7. You talked over the tour guide who pointed to houses and windows. Showing us where people had lived and died and other people now stayed in their place. Just like a broken heart.
- Adieu

Kate Chisman

#8. Sparks. Good metaphor. Walking on crumpled tinfoil. I'd have to remember that one.

Brandon Sanderson

#9. There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

Jeanette Winterson

#10. The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#11. I've been lucky to have made a number of travel programmes with the BBC, the object being to see places off the beaten track. As a result, I've often had a guide who's been able to show me things that you wouldn't see with a tour group.

Michael Palin

#12. Even a poor tour guide is entitled to some happiness.

Jacob M. Appel

#13. There was nothing dignified about peeing behind a tree with your super-cute wilderness tour guide lurking nearby.

Desni Dantone

#14. Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

Larry King

#15. It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I'm one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings.

Jane Birkin

#16. F me," I say loudly and everyone looks at me.
"Can I help you?" the tour guide asks in an icy tone.
I shake my head, noticing Callie is staring at me. "Sorry man, I thought a bee landed on me.

Jessica Sorensen

#17. I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. Only a man who hates his privilege can be trusted with it.

Rebecca Lee

#19. You might be a redneck if you have flowers planted in a bathroom appliance in your front yard.

Jeff Foxworthy

#20. It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son.

Thomas S. Monson

#21. Mind, I congratulate you. You jumped me to sex, translated it to aesthetics, and ended with sour grapes. How dishonest can I be? And all because I don't want to go to work. I'll work my head off to avoid work. Come, mind. This time you don't get away with it - back to the desk.

John Steinbeck

#22. Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice

Pico Iyer

#23. I read 'Holes' in 10th grade, and I haven't read a full book since. The movie version with Shia LaBeouf was OK, but the book was way better.

Domo Genesis

#24. You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

Ian McEwan

#25. Tour guide tells them that after the Taj was completed, each of the builders, twenty-two thousand men, had his thumbs cut off so that the structure could never be built again.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#26. When will you desist playing tour guide?" he asked. "I should think never. It is the greatest aspiration of my life to give historic tours," Cinderella lied

K.M. Shea

#27. You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

Gertrude Stein

#28. Erudite and entertaining, Max Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and enlightening from start to finish, the thinking person's guide to museums. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to truly understand what makes a masterpiece.

Daniel Silva