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

You know, when I’m looking at these ’08 yachts that are for sale, I think “I could have just walked in with a briefcase of cash and put it on the table and walked out with a yacht.”

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

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?

He’s become like that briefcase in the ground-full of gems yet void of light, so nothing sparkles, nothing shines.

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.

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?

There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth.

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.

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

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.

The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I’ve always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted in his lawyer‘s leather briefcase, would be comics from the store.

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.

Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings.

What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.

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.

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.

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.

Bought the president the Louis presidential briefcase Never been a cheapskate

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

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.

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

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.

I expect them to tell me things about myself I don’t know.