Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vera Brittain

Venice is all sea and sculpture ...

Ulysses S. Grant

Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained.

Roger Moore

Kristina has been to the Maldives but never to Venice, and I have been to Venice but never to the Maldives.

Roger Ebert

Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.

William Dean Howells

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

Lord Byron

Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I shall be an Attila to Venice.

Mary McCarthy

...the tourist Venice is Venice.

Eli Roth

Quentin [Tarantino] called me and said: "Yeah, you've got to be in my movie. You've got to be in Death Proof." But he made me audition. I was like: "Dude, I don't even want to do this..." So I left the casting of Hostel: Part II to drive to Venice, where Quentin was holding his casting, and the person ahead of me was Derek Richardson from Hostel 1 and he was like: "Dude, what are you doing here?" I said: "Don't ask!"

Khaled Hosseini

You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.

Daniel Boulud

I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.

Mohsin Hamid

When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.

Terry Pratchett

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant ‘idiot.

Karl Lagerfeld

I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.

Andrew Zimbalist

You are substituting one set of tourists for another.

Mike Simpson

Visits from tourists are not going to do it,

Adam Braun

Tourists see, and travelers seek.

Anais Nin

I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.