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  • Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. -- Henry James
  • At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child. -- Queen Elizabeth II
  • Fish and visitors smell in three days. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go. -- Mooji
  • Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth. -- Kim Stafford
  • My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris. -- John C. Danforth
  • Foreign visitors . . . how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties. -- Mikhail Bulgakov
  • After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.' -- William S. Burroughs
  • But the UFO phenomenon simply does not behave like extraterrestrial visitors. It actually molds itself in order to fit a given culture. -- John Ankerberg
  • We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house. -- Robert Breault
  • 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
  • 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
  • There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.' -- Charles Francis Richter
  • It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time. -- Mark Twain
  • A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain. -- Howard Zahniser
  • Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers. -- Truman Capote
  • Michigan State is always welcome at Ann Arbor. Your teams in all the various branches of athletics are more frequent visitors here than those of any other institution. This is as it should be, for not two universities are closer together in every way than Michigan State and Michigan. -- Fielding H. Yost
  • 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
  • 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
  • Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more. -- Edgar Allan Poe
  • This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. -- Rumi
  • Fish & Visitors stink in 3 days. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Without Visitors who are enticed to take action when presented with your offers, all you have is a hobby. -- Andy Jenkins
  • There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuous are advised to choose the latter -- Fran Lebowitz
  • Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvelous it is to be able to look at public buildings without advertisements stuck all over them are just telling you that they can't decipher the cyrillic alphabet. -- Clive James
  • The Petition of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Chapman Johnson, Joseph C. Cabell, James Breckenridge, John Hartwell Cocke, and Robert Taylor the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia ... Respectfully representeth ... That the value of science to a republican people, the security it... -- Thomas Jefferson
  • I dwell in Possibility A fairer House than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior--for Doors Of Chambers as the Cedars Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky Of Visitors--the fairest For Occupation--This The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise -- Emily Dickinson
  • I am honored to serve on the Board of Visitors for Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. Being the first board member from Latin America, I hope to provide insight into the economical, social and political issues facing the region, and continue to grow and strengthen this prestigious institution. -- Ricardo Salinas Pliego
  • On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city. -- Alison Gopnik
  • The ways that my dogs can make me - and my visitors - happy constantly amazes me. -- Andrew Weil
  • Wales is blessed with some truly magnificent castles, full of history and a must see for visitors. -- Luke Evans
  • The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors. -- Charles C. Mann
  • On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers. -- Cliff Stearns
  • Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap. -- Marc Maron
  • In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy course to pursue. -- Vladimir Putin
  • I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors. -- Gary Hamel
  • New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like. -- Ban Ki-moon
  • I don't look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren't there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary. -- Paul Theroux
  • There's always a great deal of business to be transacted in one's office. There are always visitors it seems to me, an unending stream of them, who come with letters of recommendation, or come actually on substantive business. -- David K. E. Bruce
  • The glorified will not be pilgrims, transient visitors, or tenants at will, but settled, permanent, walled, established by title, through eternity by warrantee deed, signed, sealed, recorded, possession given. No renters, no lessees of Heaven, but all property and home owners. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me. -- LaToya London
  • We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects. -- Howard Carter
  • What I am out to do is make sure that the Met continues to be the most exciting encyclopedic museum in the world. I want to sustain the vibrancy that makes it exciting to work here, that makes it exciting for visitors. The art remains central. -- Thomas P. Campbell
  • Sisters, when about their work, should not put on clothing which would make them look like images to frighten the crows from the corn. It is more gratifying to their husbands and children to see them in a becoming, well-fitting, attire, than it can be to merely visitors or strangers. -- Ellen G. White
  • I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection. -- Mark Skousen
  • The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to be guided through the favelas of Brazil and the shantytowns of South Africa. The recently opened Los Angeles Gang Tour carries visitors through battle-scarred territories of urban violence and deprivation. -- Leslie Jamison
  • I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent. -- Nellie Bly
  • Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors. -- Geoff Mulgan
  • Having travelled to some 20 African countries, I find myself, like so many other visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Rather, I am referring to the African peoples. -- Dennis Prager
  • In Barcelona, things seem so different. For example, I know that it's traditionally the least Spanish city, but you'd never know they had a monarchy, coming here as a tourist - as opposed to the U.K., where the Queen is probably the best-known animal, vegetable and/or mineral going when it comes to overseas visitors. -- Julie Burchill
  • Jurassic World' takes place in a fully functional park on Isla Nublar. It sees more than 20,000 visitors every day. You arrive by ferry from Costa Rica. It has elements of a biological preserve, a safari, a zoo, and a theme park. There is a luxury resort with hotels, restaurants, nightlife and a golf course. And there are dinosaurs. -- Colin Trevorrow
  • fish and visitors stink in 3 days. -- Jeff Kinney
  • The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers. -- Ernest Hemingway
  • When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired. -- Pablo Picasso
  • A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates. -- Samuel Richardson
  • I live in a world all my own, but visitors are always welcome. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
  • We are the visitors in the lives of others; we visit them and we disappear! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors. -- Margaret Fuller
  • The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend. -- Hal Rothman
  • Play with your physical workplace in a way that sends positive "body language" to employees and visitors. -- Tom Kelley
  • I rarely have out-of-town visitors because you have to do things like take them around L.A. -- Jen Kirkman
  • You can't just place a few "Buy" buttons on your website and expect your visitors to buy. -- Neil Patel
  • A prominent mention in The Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago garnered me a whopping 40 visitors. -- Steve Rubel
  • Some people grow cotton, while I have a t-shirt farm. The rainy season is when I get the most visitors. -- Jarod Kintz
  • Mexico takes a hard line on immigration, demanding that visitors to her shores enter lawfully, and show her respect during their stay. -- John Linder
  • And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • You had lots of visitors, but they were all quiet.Oh real funny. Tease the blind man. ~Trella to Logan, pg. 114-115 -- Maria V. Snyder
  • You had lots of visitors, but they were all quiet." "Oh real funny. Tease the blind man." ~Trella to Logan, pg. 114-115 -- Maria V. Snyder
  • I like a no-drama set. I welcome visitors by and large; I like music playing on sets between set-ups - all that stuff. -- Chris Eigeman
  • Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • Instead of a permit system or regulations, the Forest Service needs to reduce worldwide population growth to limit the number of visitors to wilderness. -- Dave Barry
  • War begins like a pretty girlwith whom every man wants to flirtand ends like an ugly old womanwhose visitors suffer and weep- Samuel ha-Nagid -- Bernard Lewis
  • Sometimes, the actors are thrilled to have visitors because they're just waiting most of the day. It's the directors that are a little busy. -- Rebecca Eaton
  • War begins like a pretty girl with whom every man wants to flirt and ends like an ugly old woman whose visitors suffer and weep. -- Samuel ibn Naghrillah
  • They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn't allow visitors in the clubhouse. -- Bob Uecker
  • One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning. -- Patrick Rothfuss
  • Prices in Italy are only slightly lower than in France, which means that Italy is a very expensive country for everyone, natives, visitors and tourists. -- George Mikes
  • What we believe spirit visitors to be influences how they affect our lives. What we believe ourselves to be dictates how we react to them." -- S. Kelley Harrell
  • The trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in. -- John Banville
  • With everything it has to offer, Las Vegas is an obvious destination for tourists, as proven by the over 40 million visitors the city welcomes per year. -- Jon Porter
  • We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future. -- Amin Maalouf
  • Elsewhere in Italy is the lovely city of Venice, which each year attracts millions of visitors despite the fact that it is basically an enormous open sewer.. -- Dave Barry
  • Groups that advocate open government have argued that it's vital to know the names of White House visitors, who may have an outsized influence on policy matters. -- Bill Dedman
  • A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • For example, in my district there are visitors from all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches, recreational lakes, habitat wildlife preserves and golf courses. -- Mark Foley
  • Each month there are numerous incidents where visitors are abducted by criminal groups -- just long enough to withdraw the maximum amount of money from an ATM account, -- Mark Hall
  • Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose. -- Elton Gallegly
  • The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies, leaving the rocks and falls eloquent as ever. -- John Muir
  • A community which refuses to welcome - whether through fear, weariness, insecurity, a desire to cling to comfort, or just because it is fed up with visitors - is dying spiritually. -- Jean Vanier
  • For all the splendours of the world's greatest galleries, visitors are likely to be kept at arm's length, spectators of a world that can seem too rarefied to let them in. -- Jim Crace
  • I always appear behind a mask. As such, I can visit my own exhibitions without any visitors knowing who I really am even if I stand a few steps away from them. -- Invader
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  • SkyClan's destiny is that we will never live in isolation from other cats. We're not like forest Clans, we can't shut ourselves off entirely from kittypets or rogues. And visitors will be welcome. -- Erin Hunter
  • As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Tip to out-of-town visitors. If you buy something here in New York and you want to have it shipped home, be suspicious if the clerk tells you they don't need your name and address. -- David Letterman
  • The San Diego region in many ways is defined by our relationship with the ocean. It's our front yard and a beautiful playground for families and visitors. It should be clean, safe, and inviting. -- Scott Peters
  • Many visitors to Chicago know the Loop, the shops on the Magnificent Mile, and the Museum Campus. Meanwhile, much of the bustle is in the developing neighborhoods around the Loop: North, South and West. -- Bill Dedman
  • HawaiĆ¢??i Pacific University's new use of the iconic Aloha Tower Marketplace will continue its historic role of welcoming visitors, and now students, to the heart of Honolulu in a modern, vibrant mixed-use space. -- Kirk Caldwell
  • Have you ever actually listened to golfers talking to each other? "Looked good starting out..." "Better direction than last time..." "Who's away?..." It sounds like visitors' day at a home for the criminally insane. -- Peter Andrews
  • The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens. -- Robert Fortune
  • One of the greatest problems for international journalists covering the Middle East is that people who serves as guides for journalists are often affiliated with Islamic terrorists seeking to turn for foreign visitors against Israel. -- Caroline Glick
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