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  • I'm not one for sightseeing or going around the shops when I'm on holiday. I do enough shopping when I'm at home, and like to have a complete break when I'm away.

    Home   Holiday   Shopping  
  • Brynjolfsson and McAfee take us on a whirlwind tour of innovators and innovations around the world. But this isn't just casual sightseeing. Along the way, they describe how these technological wonders came to be, why they are important, and where they are headed.

  • All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

    Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1828). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous: to which are Now Added Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, Recently Published by Mr. Boswell, and Other Authentic Testimonies; Also His Will, and the Sermon He Wrote for the Late Doctor Dodd”, p.278
  • The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

  • If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

    "Good Advice". Book by William Safire and Leonard Safir, 1982.
  • What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

  • Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.

  • To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

  • Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments; it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing.

    Motivation   Men   Past  
    Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher
  • Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (2006). “The Silverado Squatters: Easyread Large Edition”, p.17, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

    Travel   Hate   Memorable  
    Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1919, GENERAL PRESS
  • The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random, you will find something - a plastic flower, false tiles, some imitation something - something which can be appreciated as material only if apprehended by eyesight alone. Don't we go sightseeing in cars, thinking we can experience a landscape by looking at it through glass?

  • To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

    Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.249, Transaction Publishers
  • There's not much to be said for sightseeing. You go somewhere that has a waterfall. You have a beer, watch the water go over the edge, and move on. Tours are all the same. In the end, the only thing that matters is the beer.

    Moving   Beer   Water  
    Jack McDevitt (2013). “Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -”, p.172, Hachette UK
  • Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten. We'll go nutting once more. We'll pluck the nut of the world, and crack it in the winter evenings. Theaters and all other sightseeing are puppet-shows in comparison. I will take another walk to the Cliff, another row on the river, another skate on the meadow, be out in the first snow, and associate with the winter birds. Here I am at home. In the bare and bleached crust of the earth I recognize my friend.

    Travel   Home   Winter  
  • The only thing that matters is the theater!

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

    Camino Real block 8 (1953)
  • The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

  • Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

  • I don't get to do as much sightseeing as I would like to.

    "Maria Sharapova Talks Tennis, Travel, and Her Sweet Tooth". SELF interview, www.popsugar.com. August 31, 2011.
  • I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.

    Travel   Moon   Thinking  
  • I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence.

    Museums   Smell   Church  
  • If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

  • I'm lucky in that I travel a lot for work. I also manage several holidays a year. I'm not someone who sits in the sun or goes sightseeing, though. If I go away, it will be for fishing or something like that.

    Holiday   Years   Fishing  
  • Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

  • Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

    Play   Actors   Invention  
    Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

    Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.85, Vintage
  • We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

    Hilaire Belloc (1942). “Places”
  • I see my path, but I don't know where it leads.

  • I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.

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