41 Guidebook Quotes

Following is our list of the most famous guidebook quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational guidebook quotes. Hopefully, these guidebook quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your guidebook knowledge!

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Famous Guidebook Quotes

Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension. — Charlie Fowler

A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide. — Thomas Keller

We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps. — Nelson Demille

Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself — Stephen Levine

A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of your hand. — Beryl Markham

Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey. — Rumi

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge. — Patrick Ness

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. — Charles Baudelaire

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. — Henry Ward Beecher

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. — Indian Proverbs

The Bible does not provide a map for life - only a compass. — Haddon W. Robinson

To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map. - William Carey

To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map. — William Carey

Hymns are companions for life travelers. — Andy Griffith

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. — Joseph Pulitzer

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. — John Hope Franklin

Short Guidebook Quotes

  • I went to the UN and even the guidebook was spineless. — Dennis Miller
  • Just ask the local people for the best food. Don't rely on a guidebook. — Masaharu Morimoto
  • Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight. — A. J. Jacobs
  • You don't need a guidebook to see New Orleans - just a good pair of shoes. — James Carville

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More Guidebook Quotes

The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look. — John Vinocur

People need to know why we, as the Jewish people, have a right to be here. We need to tell people what we are doing here... My tourism guidebook is the Bible. — Ariel Sharon

I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy. — Adam Hamilton

Dave Wann's recipes from his own experience in Simple Prosperity are a breath of fresh air, and just what we need for a saner future. They include ideas, sound research and down-to-earth advice we can all use. This book is also much more: a friendly, personal guidebook for living a more enjoyable, healthy, loving life. — Hazel Henderson

It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories. — Jhumpa Lahiri

If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good and who's bad. I've even considered writing a guidebook. — Steffi Graf

There is no definitive guidebook on how to pick the right partner, and even if there were, I'm way too dumb to write it. — Justin Halpern

I feel like I would need to investigate and get some local tips. I think if I've learned anything from being on tour, it's that sometimes things you see in the guidebooks are stereotypically the best things to do, but there's no substitute for local knowledge on that stuff. — Lauren Mayberry

Casting is really a black art. It's a huge part of directing and it's the most invisible. It's one that people don't really think about or talk about. But you can really destroy your movie by casting it badly before you've shot a foot of film. And yet there are no guidebooks for it, there's no rule book to tell you how to do it. It's all your own experience and your own sensibility and your own intuition. — David Cronenberg

Major cities are divided into two parts; the bits that are in the guidebook and the bits that aren't. If you don't take a guidebook, you'll see a different city. — Guy Browning

On the plane, I like to read fiction set in the location I'm going to. Fiction is in many ways more useful than a guidebook, because it gives you those little details, a sense of the way a place smells, an emotional sense of the place. So, I'll bring Graham Greene's The Quiet American if I'm going to Vietnam. It's good to feel romantic about a destination before you arrive. — Anthony Bourdain

If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries. — Paul Fussell

Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct. — Frances Mayes

I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand — Veronica Roth

For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written. — Aldous Huxley

Any pile of stunted growth unaware that entertainment is just that and nothing more deserves to doom themselves to some dank cell somewhere for having been so stupid!! Movies, books, T.V., music - they're all just entertainment, not guidebooks for damning yourself! — Jhonen Vasquez

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant. — John Muir

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