Touristy Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. '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

#6. 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

#7. He was determined to be the most touristy tourist who had ever touristed,

John Scalzi

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.

Frances Mayes

#15. Word of mouth is the most effective means of communication.

Ralph Nader

#16. The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.

Kahlil Gibran

#17. Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

Anton Chekhov

#18. I looked at my life and saw quite clearly that I was not surviving it in the turquoise house. I was letting my sails crust up with salt. I had to stop playing johnny johnny and concentrate on preparing for rain, preparing for rescue.

Janet Fitch

#19. No one pigeonholes us better than we ourselves do.

Herminia Ibarra

#20. To break a Navy Seal, you have to kill us. That's why we can make it into our training. That's why we can call ourselves Seals because the only way your gonna break us is to kill us.

Marcus Luttrell

#21. What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.

Emile Zola

#22. This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

Wietse Venema

#23. I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

Michel De Montaigne