Rucksack Quotes

#1. Life was an enormous rucksack so impossibly heavy that, even though it meant losing everything, it was infinitely easier to leave all baggage here on the roadside and walk into the blackness.

Zadie Smith

#2. With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#3. Being exhausted, yet keeping up the pursuit.' (Judges 8:4) Even after what I had said of wanting out, even after that humiliation, the physical exhaustion, the deep despair I felt, those words were my new marching orders. The next morning, I swung my rucksack over my shoulders and was off again.

Diet Eman

#4. He looked like he could pick up a fifty-pound rucksack, run across the city with it, and then beat an ungodly number of enemies to a bloody pulp with his bare hands while things exploded dramatically in the background.

Ilona Andrews

#5. Psychogeography does not have to be complicated. Anyone can do it. You do not need a map, Gor-Tex, a rucksack or a companion. All you need is a curious nature and a comfortable pair of shoes. There are no rules to doing psychogeography - this is its beauty.

Tina Richardson

#6. Count me in." Jake put his things back in the rucksack, slung it over his shoulder, and stood up. "The kids can finish up this project." "You've taught them how to make land mines?" "I wouldn't be much of a grandfather if I didn't.

Janet Evanovich

#7. The garnets would have gone in the rucksack," said Sniff miserably. "You don't need hands for that. It's not the same thing at all just looking at them. I want to touch them and know they're mine.

Tove Jansson

#8. I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.

Hermann Hesse

#9. When you get to pass between the mountains, leave your rucksack behind. You won't need the compass anymore.

Patrick Egan

#10. I am a laptop boy. People say: 'Where's your studio?' I say: 'It's in my laptop, in my rucksack.'

Todd Rundgren

#11. I am not man or beast; I am bibliosexual, and a seedy bibliosexual who haunts the streets, laden with carrier bags held by blistered fingers, stooping under the weight of the rucksack that has brought on sciatica and a Dickensian demeanour.

Robin Ince

#12. It looks like a prisoner of war camp to me." Fiona threw her rucksack down in disgust. "I was expecting a five-star hotel at least.

Cathy MacPhail

#13. What are you reading?" " 'Ryder' by Greta Maloney," he said, closing the book and placing it back into his rucksack. "Any good?" I asked, wanting to find another subject to talk about other than my nightmare. "It's creepy," he smiled at me.

Tim O'Rourke

#14. I take my rucksack and go out the opening where the front door used to be. Manchee gets up from where he's curled and follows me. When I sit down, he recurls by my legs and fall asleep, farting happily and giving a doggy sigh. Simple to be a dog.

Patrick Ness

#15. It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.

Michael Leunig

#16. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells.

Charlie Brooker

#17. Yeah,' said Ron. 'Could've been worse. Remember those birds she set on me?'
'I still haven't ruled it out,' came Hermione's muffled voice from beneath her blankets, but Harry saw Ron smiling slightly as he pulled his maroon pajamas out of his rucksack.

J.K. Rowling

#18. Tukhachevsky hid Napoleon's baton in his rucksack.

Mikhail Tukhachevsky

#19. I've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack.

John Le Carre

#20. He is lofty, and I am eminent.

Gough Whitlam

#21. Sergeant Jack Riley and his wife. They were closer to

Debra Webb

#22. If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor', I beg you to slap me.

Johnny Depp

#23. The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#24. The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it.

Philip Sidney

#25. I find economics increasingly satisfactory, and I think I am rather good at it. I want to manage a railroad or organise a Trust or at least swindle the investing public

John Maynard Keynes

#26. You could never understand why I grind like I do
Makiyah & Jalani why I grind like I do

Nicki Minaj

#27. I'm lookin in the mirror & I see a dollar sign, I had a cat scan & I had money on my mind

Lil' Wayne

#28. Magick is the Art of Life itself.

Aleister Crowley

#29. The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#30. It's really good to have so distinctive a name as an actress. No one ever forgets it. My sister and brother are called Perdita and Rollo. Actually, my family calls me 'Hollyhocks.'

Honeysuckle Weeks

#31. Let's not kid ourselves. You pick up 'The Washington Post' and find O.J. Simpson on the front page; 'serious journalists' covered Anna Nicole Smith.

Greta Van Susteren

#32. And so back up the ravines to the comfortable places (the sane ones?) where we don't have to think too much. Where life is, after all, just 'getting by' and where we survive, half asleep.

Robyn Davidson

#33. Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.

Adam Gopnik

#34. There are magnificent beings on this earth, son, that are walking around posing as humans.

Fannie Flagg