Suitcases Quotes - Page 3

• We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which we must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness and despair.

  Dean Koontz

  Two, Darkness, Despair

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• As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.

  Valerie June

  High Heels, Guitar, Ukulele

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• Treat yourself like a fat person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck-you'll stay exactly where you are. Train like an athlete and, though you may not look like one now, you will become one.

  Chalene Johnson

  Pain, Athlete, Good Luck

  Chalene Johnson (2017). “PUSH: 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, a Bangin' Body, and the Life You Deserve!”, p.368, Rodale

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• To really love Joan Didion—to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept by her suitcase—you have to be female.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Smell, Female, Lists

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• I've got an answer to where Osama bin Laden is and I know, he's dead and living in my suitcase with my dummies.'

  Jeff Dunham

  Answers, Osama Bin Laden, Dummy

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• It's a little like packing for a trip. First you lay out everything that might possibly be useful, with no thought about the size of your suitcase. Then, look at your suitcase. In the case of narrative, there's a certain obligation to keep the pace up and have each section or subsection be doing something.

  George Saunders

  Size, Looks, Pace

  Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

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• People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.

  Ja Rule

  Thinking, People, Half

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

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• I get ideas about what's essential when packing my suitcase.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Ideas, Essentials, Packing

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• I only travel with a carry-on suitcase in most instances.

  Brad Goreski

  Instance

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• The snag in being married to a person who knows more or less everything is that one gets hopelessly lazy. ... I never look things up in books because all I need to do is ask him, and when he gives me the answers I don't properly commit them to memory because I know if I forget all I have to do is to ask him again. It is rather like keeping one's brain in a suitcase.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Memories, Book, Giving

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• I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.

  Mamie Gummer

  Paris, Capes, Cape Cod

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Paddington Bear was a refugee with a label - 'Please look after this bear. Thank you', and he had a little suitcase.

  Michael Bond

  Labels, Looks, Littles

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• When I'm filming I live out of a suitcase, so everything is thrown everywhere. In real life, I'm a bit tidier.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Real, Thrown, Bits

  "Five fashion minutes with... Joanne Froggatt". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 19, 2009.

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• Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Lying, Truth Is, Knows

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.256, Penguin

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• The first thing, when I got the money, I knew I would support somebody. And the person I supported was my family. Because we were really in debt with the money. And - so I gave to my father this suitcase full of money. And he couldn't believe it. And that was something very special.

  Michael Schumacher

  Father, Believe, Support

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• My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and they managed to build a business, a family, and a future for their family. They didn't have any of the resources of people who have lived here for two or three generations.

  Stana Katic

  Two, People, Parent

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• It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too.

  Tom Waits

  Travel, Night, Flames

  Tom Waits (2007). “The Early Years: The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983”, Ecco

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• I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It's just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Food, Humorous

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• I had a boom box, but I didn't go too far with it because I had a really, really big one. It was like the size of a suitcase, and I was just a little kid.

  Michael Rapaport

  Kids, Littles, Size

  "Michael Rapaport’s Vision Quest". Interview with Steven Prigge, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 24, 2011.

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• I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I am nervous. My favourite British author is Jane Austen, and my favourite American one is John O'Hara.

  Carolina Herrera

  Book, Shoes, Nervous

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• It was then I knew I'd had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a one-way ticket to the land of truth And my suitcase in my hand

  Neil Young

  Truth, Hands, Land

  Song: Thrasher, Album: Rust Never Sleeps

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• I left my apartment in London and I sold everything. I literally had $1000 and a suitcase when I got on the plane. The next day I enrolled in my first acting class. We had some great people, Jim Carrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Molly Ringwald. It was very inspirational.

  Jane Leeves

  Class, Next Day, People

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• It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal.

  Tom Waits

  Travel, Journey, Hotel

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• You'd better not be trying to steal that," she said. The boy shrugged and reached for the small rolling suitcase at her feet. "I wouldn't dare." "Because I'm an excellent yeller." "I don't doubt it." "And fighter. My cousin gave me this nail file... the thing's just like a switchblade.

  Ally Carter

  Cousin, Boys, Feet

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?

  Jodi Picoult

  Girl, Memories, People

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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