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  • The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi. -- Fred Allen
  • I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor. -- Hattie McDaniel
  • A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. -- Herbert V. Prochnow
  • Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit. -- Hanya Yanagihara
  • After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.' -- William S. Burroughs
  • Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines. -- Maria Mitchell
  • I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country. -- Nicolas Cage
  • One of the first things a British visitor to Southern California discovers is that he must have a car. Freeways. Bad public transport. I took driving lessons. -- Christopher Lee
  • As a kid growing up in Southern California, I was a frequent visitor to the Disneyland and developed a deep love of the magic and wonder of Disney. -- Kidada Jones
  • South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures - all speak to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa. -- Tariq Ramadan
  • In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War. -- Dennis Cardoza
  • Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain. -- Christopher Morley
  • Just as China achieved much more than India in the realm of public health and education under an austere Communist regime, so its economic growth under a capitalist-friendly government strikes a visitor from India as nothing less than spectacular. -- Pankaj Mishra
  • There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind. -- Ivor Novello
  • I'm someone who came to Paris as a teenager, and I dreamed of coming back to Paris as a visitor. I never dreamed of having a job at the biggest luxury house in Paris and, you know, 15 odd years later, I'm still here. -- Marc Jacobs
  • In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies. -- Brian Cox
  • The Da Jing street market is little more than a few narrow intersections, barely six blocks long. But for a visitor, it is a living, breathing education in Shanghai cuisine, a style distinguished by its thick savory sauces spiked with sugar and soy sauce. -- Evan Osnos
  • When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian, I have a history with the Romans and the Saxons. I feel some connection and ancestry here, as weird as that sounds. -- Nicolas Cage
  • I got hit by the bug of reading - not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town. I remember that the children's books were in the right-hand corner near the floor. Often when I went there, I was the only visitor. -- Anita Shreve
  • I never really liked the Gospel of John because I never could find the humanity of Jesus in it. I thought it presented Jesus as a visitor from another planet; in addition, John's gospel is and has been interpreted as a document that fuels anti-Semitism in the church. -- John Shelby Spong
  • The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully. -- Deepak Chopra
  • The Czech Republic, severed from its old Slovak half, sits in apparent landlocked contentment, inside the European Union but outside the troubled Euro Zone, set into the new Continental mosaic like one of the small sturdy paving stones, just a few inches square, that form the sidewalks under the visitor's ambling feet. -- Thomas Mallon
  • Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places. -- Pedro Almodovar
  • I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it came as a shock how intelligent, interesting and funny the people were. If I lived there I might see it differently, but as a visitor it was a lot of fun. -- Colm Toibin
  • My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong. -- Michelle Obama
  • I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go. -- Iggy Azalea
  • Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor. -- Stephen Sondheim
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  • I feel like a visitor just about everywhere. -- John Corbett
  • If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • The knock at the door tells the character of the visitor! -- T. K. V. Desikachar
  • I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride. -- Henry Rollins
  • Has there ever been a visitor to Ludlow who hasn't wished they lived there? -- Jeremy Paxman
  • A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour. -- J. C. Ryle
  • The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination. -- Christopher Isherwood
  • Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • What is the work of a Master?" said a solemn-faced visitor. "To teach people to laugh ," said the Master gravely. -- Anthony de Mello
  • A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization. -- David Brooks
  • A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being. -- Juhani Pallasmaa
  • I don't feel that I am a visitor in Ghana or in any part of Africa. I feel that I am at home. -- Malcolm X
  • When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist. -- Denzel Washington
  • If you can dispense with reputation, then you are free from care. Reputation is only a visitor, but reality is here to stay. -- Liezi
  • For explanations, they did not look in the pages of the visitor's book to see if others likewise found that ghostly happenings abound. -- Eric Russell
  • The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident. -- Max Lucado
  • All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else. -- Scott Spencer
  • The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace. -- Colman McCarthy
  • PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind. -- Chrissie Hynde
  • Church can't be a place where we feel like a visitor, or somewhere we're afraid to allow others to see our messes. It's got to feel like home. -- Ross Parsley
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  • A strong relationship is an honest relationship, and no honest relationship is all peaches and cream. Love is the key. Where love abides, anger is but a passing visitor. -- Jerry Spinelli
  • What would a Martian visitor think to see a human being laugh? It must look truly horrible: the sight of furious gestures, flailing limbs, and thorax heaving in frenzied contortions... -- Marvin Minsky
  • Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more. -- A. A. Milne
  • A small speckled visitor Wearing a crimson cape Brighter than a cherry Smaller than a grape A polka-dotted someone Walking on my wall A black-hooded lady In a scarlet shawl. -- Joan Walsh Anglund
  • Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe. -- Barbara Holland
  • Any visitor to an historic country town or city quickly becomes aware in his or her peregrinations that the most attractive houses in the centre are invariably the offices of lawyers. -- P. D. James
  • From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat. -- Margaret Halsey
  • The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man. -- Jerome K. Jerome
  • To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire. -- Carolyn Wells
  • A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend. -- Lorrie Moore
  • As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman. -- Adam Michnik
  • Sanaz Minaei [business woman] shows a visitor a cooking class at one of her several companies and says the opportunities for Iran are huge if only the country can rejoin the global economy as promised. -- Lourdes Garcia-Navarro
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