Suitcases Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• For life is holy and every moment is precious.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life Is, Moments, Holy

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.156, Penguin

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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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• 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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• Why do we put suits in a garment bag and put garments in a suitcase?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Bags

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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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• Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler

  Ira Levin

  Travel, Tourists, Needs

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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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• Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk - real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Sex, Real

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies

  Jack Kerouac

  Goodbye, Travel, Crazy

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.237, Penguin

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• I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Confusion, Confusing

  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.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hippie, Yawning, People

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

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

  Melanie Fiona

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• Because the only people for me are the mad ones.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hippie, Yawning, People

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

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• I still don't know what the film was about because all I remember is a whole lot of technical dialogue about a body in a suitcase.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Body, Remember, Film

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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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• 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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• Everything I own can fit in two suitcases and a foot locker.

  GG Allin

  Two, Feet, Lockers

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

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