Briefcases Quotes

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Mario Puzo

Funny, Humorous, Gun

The Godfather ch. 1 (1969). This line does not appear in the movie version of The Godfather.

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Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun.

Don Henley

Gun, Men, Causes

Song: Gimme What You Got

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Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings.

Sparky Anderson

Sports, Sunglasses, Earrings

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The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

Jerry Brown

Work, Paper, Volume

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It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

Steve Wozniak

Real, Nice, Book

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What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.

Nikita Khrushchev

Scary, Scientist

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Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.

Lois Wyse

Business, Looks, Should

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I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Book, Want, Normal

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One of my first memories of being a kid was, 'I want to have a real job when I grow up.' And to me that meant you wear a suit and a hat and carry a briefcase and go to your job.

Will Ferrell

Jobs, Growing Up, Memories

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I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.

Rachel Nichols

Careers, Suits

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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

Alan Kay

Wise, Typical, Cavemen

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Within 25 years, virtual reality meetings will be essentially transparent to being there in person. Once we can do this, the idea of climbing into an aircraft, and burning up huge quantities of fossil fuels to propel our bodies and briefcases full of papers, will seem absolutely backward.

Burt Rutan

Reality, Years, Ideas

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She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing.

Bret Easton Ellis

Ignorance, Hands, Evil

Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.303, Pan Macmillan

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Where are the dogs going? you people who pay so little attention ask. They are going about their business. And they are very punctilious, without wallets, notes, and without briefcases.

Charles Baudelaire

Funny, Dog, People

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I tell ya, I knew my morning wasn't going right. When I put on my shirt the button fell off, when I picked up my briefcase, the handle fell off, I tell ya, I was afraid to go to the bathroom.

Rodney Dangerfield

Funny, Morning, Sex

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I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn't understand why anyone else didn't think so.

Tom Ford

Home, School, Thinking

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I don't know when they first had feeds. Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Before that, they had to use their hands and their eyes. Computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

Eye, Hands, Years

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Why does every black person in the movies have to play a servant? How about a black person walking up the steps of a courthouse carrying a briefcase?

Myrna Loy

Play, Black, Doe

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

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Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.

Bohumil Hrabal

Dream, Moving, Book

Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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You may be less likely to pick on someone if you dont know whats in their briefcase or purse.

Trey Gowdy

May, Purses, Knows

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Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.

Mitch Albom

Father, Kids, Trying

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In mine, they were just trying to steal a briefcase of cocaine.* That's it. Some flour that I got out of my mom's cupboard.

Len Wiseman

Mom, Trying, Stealing

Source: collider.com

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I guess of all those novels, Don DeLillo's Falling Man is the one I like the best. I thought there were some beautiful things in that, particularly the relationship between the man who finds the briefcase and the woman whose husband owned the briefcase. It's quite a beautiful passage.

Paul Auster

Beautiful, Husband, Fall

Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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When you were a kid, it [work in IBM] seemed like an awesome job. I'd get to go to work and have a briefcase. I loved how Dad wore a tie and got a car. I didn't know if all those things came together. I'd see my dad go off to work and we'd wait for him to come home, and we'd all be excited to see him.

Jimmy Fallon

Jobs, Dad, Home

"Jimmy Fallon Interviews Jimmy Fallon" by Eric Spitznagel and Peter Yang, www.menshealth.com. December 23, 2014.

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Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors?

Jim Hightower

Race, Presidential, Why Not

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