120 Suitcase Quotes

Following is our list of suitcase quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about living out of a suitcase.

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Famous Suitcase Quotes

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs. — J. D. Salinger

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase. - Yogi Berra

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase. — Yogi Berra

Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently. - Shane Koyczan

Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently. — Shane Koyczan

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

My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller — Mahmoud Darwish

Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings. — Sparky Anderson

The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases. — Jerry Brown

Pack your bags, we're going on a guilt trip! — Jimmy Buffett

Enjoy life by limiting your emotional baggage to a small carry on. — Tim Fargo

Getting on a plane, I told the ticket lady, "Send one of my bags to New York, send one to Los Angeles, and send one to Miami." She said, "We can't do that!" I told her, "You did it last week!" — Henny Youngman

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage. — Peggy Ryan

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

No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car. — August Strindberg

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. - Charles Dudley Warner

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. — Charles Dudley Warner

Short Suitcase Quotes

  • 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
  • It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies — Jack Kerouac
  • All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work. — Dave Grohl
  • Because the only people for me are the mad ones. — Jack Kerouac
  • Everything I own can fit in two suitcases and a foot locker. — GG Allin
  • Why do we put suits in a garment bag and put garments in a suitcase? — Steven Wright
  • It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal. — Tom Waits
  • The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things. — John Updike
  • They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel. — Gabrielle Zevin
  • I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations. — Alfred Molina

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Packing Suitcase Quotes

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

Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing. — Hope Davis

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

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

If woman wants to have kids and work a little less she has a big disadvantage compared to a male colleague who has a stay-at-home wife packing his suitcases. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

At least when somebody's suffocating, you can tell: you see their faces turn blue, their lips quiver, their eyes buck, and their throats jerk. But when a man is mentally packing his bags the suitcase is never out until he's already standing on the other side of the door. — Kalisha Buckhanon

One of the things I like to pack, that I take with me all the time, is my Virgensita de Guadalupe. It doesn't take much room in your suitcase. If you have one that isn't so fancy, you can use it on the plane when you're scared. — Sandra Cisneros

Let's say you have to catch a plane, and you are packing your suitcase and moving fast. Most people would call that stress. Most people live stressed like that all the time. — Eckhart Tolle

I do so much travelling in my work that my suitcase is always packed, with my passport ready. I rarely unpack, as I am constantly on the move. — Jools Holland

I travel a lot. If you look at my suitcase, everything is extremely well-packed and well-folded; people who travel with me are impressed at how organized I am. Some would refer to me as a maniac for this. — Joel Robuchon

Living Out Of A Suitcase Quotes

Money doesn't mean anything to me. I've made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important. — Keanu Reeves

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

Like most artists, I live out of a suitcase. — Cee Lo Green

I travel so much and am always living out of a suitcase, so my favorite saying is 'Wherever you go, there you are'. I love it because it's reassuring to me that you have to live in the moment wherever you happen to be. — Jason Sellards

It's not so bad to live out of a suitcase. It's a really beautiful life. — Jane Monheit

You wrestle one night, get up the next morning and fly out to the next city. You try to work out, you try to get some food into you and, lo and behold, you have to go work again. You are living out of a suitcase. — Bill Goldberg

I've always lived out of a suitcase. I was in a new city every three months. When I was a model, I traveled the world, and as an actor you're traveling from movie set to movie set. So I've never been in one place long enough for anything super-bad to happen. — Krysten Ritter

I am sick of living out of a suitcase. — Jason Clarke

I'm very good at living out of a suitcase. I love dressing up every morning. It feels like a costume, in some ways. — Morgan Saylor

I'd been living out of a suitcase since I was 17 years old, and it just got to the point where it was ridiculous. Besides, it was really hurting everything I was trying to do in music; to feel so consistently homeless was no way to endure touring and stress. — Zach Condon

Travel Suitcase Quotes

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

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

I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases. — Paige Davis

I would say that the single most important conclusion I reached, after traveling through Japan, as well as countless hours reading, studying, and analyzing this fascinating culture, is that you should always tighten the cap on the shampoo bottle before you put it in your suitcase. — Dave Barry

I realized, that the life of a musician, even of a very lucky, very successful musician, wasn't really the life I wanted: I hate travel, I hate living out of suitcases, I hate the constant anxiety of being on stage. — Garth Greenwell

Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases. — Russell Baker

To me, the most worrisome part of traveling comes before any of the traveling actually occurs: the suitcase-packing process. It's a challenging and anxiety-filled process - I am caught between wanting my suitcase to be light and worrying I am going to need every single item in my bedroom. — Laura Marano

I only travel with a carry-on suitcase in most instances. — Brad Goreski

I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used. — Al Gore

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

Briefcase Quotes

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

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

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

Nobody believes that the man who says, 'Look, lady, you wanted equality,' to explain why he won't give up his seat to a pregnant woman carrying three grocery bags, a briefcase, and a toddler is seized with the symbolism of idealism. — Judith Martin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Luggage Quotes

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? — Erma Bombeck

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. — Mark Russell

Of course, we should all be aware of what we're packing in our carry-on luggage - anything that might be considered dangerous could be confiscated at a security checkpoint. — David Neeleman

The true artists that make LVMH a success… They want people to wear their dresses, or spray their perfume, or carry the luggage they have designed. — Bernard Arnault

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. — Maya Angelou

When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying all his luggage in a rucksack and looking so like a tramp that it needed a great deal of argument at the reception desk before he could claim a room. — Paul Dirac

If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage. — William McDonough

Amelia Earhart, who said, Stop looking for me; see if you can find my luggage! Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage. — Bob Hope

How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same. — Vita Sackville-West

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More Suitcase Quotes

Within 2 years Im predicting...that youre going to see a suitcase nuke in this country. Youre probably going to see a release in a few years of something communicable. & I am predicting that you will see a lot of conventional bombings...in the next year or so. — Alex Jones

Within 2 years I'm predicting . . . that you're going to see a suitcase nuke in this country. You're probably going to see a release in a few years of something communicable. And I am predicting that you will see a lot of conventional bombings . . . in the next year or so. — Alex Jones

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

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

Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change. — Shannon Alder

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

Once when I was at Newark Mall, me, my friends, my cousin, and my bodyguard were shopping and looking for suitcases cuz we had all these clothes. On our way out, two girls started whispering. The next thing we know, we had at least 200-300 people walking behind us, like the whole mall! — Lil Romeo

I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me. — Kevin Bacon

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

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

But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now, I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase. — Tove Jansson

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

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

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

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

In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure. — George Will

Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out. — Nadia Comaneci

I'm staying in a lovely hotel, dressing robe behind the door, lovely fluffy sheets - took me a half an hour getting my suitcase closed. — Frank Carson

For life is holy and every moment is precious. — Jack Kerouac

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

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