Miranda Hart

If taking one-self seriously as a woman means committing to a life of grooming, pumicing, pruning and polishing one's exterior for the benefit of onlookers, then I may as well leave my unwieldy rucksack to the top of a bleak Scottish hill and make my home there under a stone, where I'll fashion shoes out of mud and clothes out of leaves.

English Actress

Ed Sheeran

I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.

English Musician

Michael Leunig

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.

Australian Cartoonist

Vicky Krieps

When I got pregnant, I knew I wasn't anywhere in my career, that I had not arrived. I was still on my adventure, and so I said to the child in my belly, 'I am so happy for you to come, but you should know I'm still on my way, and you'll have to come with me and be in my rucksack.

Luxembourger Actress

Todd Wilcox

The military has a way of ruining all the best recreational activities - scuba, sky diving, camping, hiking - all made much more miserable with a heavy rucksack on your back under arduous conditions.

Ben Fogle

The majority of the time I live out of a rucksack in some jungle or stuck up some mountain. The luxury tends to be when my wife and children are there.

English Writer

Todd Rundgren

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

American Musician

Often mentioned with outdoor activities like hiking and camping where items are carried.

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Commonly used to refer to a convenient travel bag that can fit many items.

Travel Companion

Often used to describe something that is cumbersome to carry or a heavy load.

Heavy Burden

 and then you go to put on your parachute and a buddy helps you. And you put on the T-10 parachute. And you're very careful how you put the straps, particularly the leg straps because they go between your legs. And then you put on your reserve, and then you put on your heavy rucksack. And then a jumpmaster comes,

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 turned up and straightaway the firefight happened it's fun or easy everybody was opening two rounds were going back and forth we started getting rid of all our equipment but necessary equipment in our rucksacks just ditching anything that we

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 you've got obsession with my rucksack doesn't smell of anything other than sweaty scotsman

Rucksack

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