Suitcases Quotes

• The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

  David Wilkerson

  Believe, Greatest Fear, Cities

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• The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Tempo, Ifs

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• They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Heartbreak, Heartbroken, Travel

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• Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Travel

  Jack Kerouac (1991). “On the road”, Penguin USA

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• It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else.

  Dido Armstrong

  Somewhere Else, Machines, Disappear

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• All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

  Dave Grohl

  Afterlife, Seattle

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• The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Hilarious, Sports

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• Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Parent, Underwear, Jam

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.98, Vintage

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• What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

  Jack Kerouac

  Goodbye, Travel, Crazy

  "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, (Ch. 8), 1957.

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• I got cocky and I stopped taking my vitamins. It was an inconvenience to have a suitcase full of vitamins with me on the road. About two years ago, it caught up with me.

  Mary Ann Mobley

  Cocky, Two, Years

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• I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.

  Alfred Molina

  Years, Acting, Location

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• I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself.

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Trying

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• Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

  J. D. Salinger

  People, Literature, Roommate

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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

  James A. Michener

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  "Good Advice". Book by William Safire and Leonard Safir, 1982.

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• I live out of my suitcase and I'm happy to do so.

  Melanie Fiona

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• I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel's suitcase.

  Bob Uecker

  Slam, Managers

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• Like most artists, I live out of a suitcase.

  Cee Lo Green

  Artist

  "Cee Lo Green Is Fking Outrageous". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 5, 2012.

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• The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?'

  Jensen Ackles

  Christmas, Girl, Thinking

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• The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.

  Jam Master Jay

  Technology, Phones, Cells

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• If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well.

  Lisa Snowdon

  Journey, Light, Years

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• But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Years, Cnn, Dollars

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

  Mother Jones

  Mother, Government, Hands

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• I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases.

  Paige Davis

  Years, Three, Whole

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Running, Stars

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Friends, Horse

  On the Road pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957)

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