Best Basements Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Basements had always intrigued Dale. He thought a man could be summed up by what was kept in his basement. He descended the stairs with a mischievous smile, imagining what he’d find. Maybe some dead bodies in a large freezer, or a neighbor decomposing in a bathtub full of lye. He gleefully rubbed his palms together in anticipation as he continued to step down the stairs.”

Basements Dead Bodies Skeletons In The Closet Dale Dickerson Mischievousness Bathtub Full Of Lye Decomposing Neighbors

Book:The Beasts of Success

Source: The Beasts of Success

“Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.”

“My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.”

People Feels Creative Lucky Husband Musician Cooks My Husband Chef Creative People Basements

Author:Dana Spiotta

“I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somewhere where all your friends show up. It's really fun and there's a very different energy to that than to play to 50,000 at a Tokyo baseball stadium.”

People Different Play Shows Energy Fun Fit Baseball Clubs Potatoes Stadiums Basements Indiana Tokyo Baked Potatoes Friends Show

Author:Chad Smith

“Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.”

People Writing Trying Kind Imagination Basements

Author:John Sandford

“If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced to accepting a miserable pittance from the BBC for interviewing a faded female in a damp basement.”

Ifs Voice Accepting Female Attraction Miserable Interviews Possessed Unlimited Faded Basements Damp Potency Conveying

Author:Gilbert Harding

“What is dangerous is not minarets, but basements and garages that hide clandestine places of worship. Thus we must choose between mosques, where we know that the rules of the republic are respected, and secret places where extremism has been developing for too long,.”

Knows Long Has Beens Religion Secret Dangerous Danger Worship Developing Republic Extremism Garage Basements Mosques Secret Places Clandestine Places Of Worship

Author:Nicolas Sarkozy

“I thought the only way you can get into things is... through the basement... exactly where my studio was ... I could creep upstairs and snatch at things, and bring them down with me... where I could munch away at them.”

Way Studios Creeps Basements Upstairs

Author:Paula Rego

“America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.”

Kind Art Seems America Artist Humanity Scientist Rewards Scholar Basements Arts And Humanities Penthouses

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Now, of course, architecture is a blind spot of our life in America today. How many millions of students go to the university to be educated? They come away conditioned, not enlightened, and they know nothing of architecture, although they have a department somewhere around -- probably in the basement.”

Knows Today America Courses Millions Our Lives Students Blind University Architecture Educated Spots Department Enlightened Basements America Today Blind Spots

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“I'm constantly recording and playing down in the basement, and my voice is starting to sound really good. There's cracks and scratches in my voice that have been there since I was 19. It hasn't changed that much.”

Has Beens Sound Voice Changed Starting Cracks Scratches Basements

Author:Paul Westerberg

“Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory procedure and a practically costly one. The bourgeois is the measure of the price paid, he who most of all cannot afford to look to his real self, who denies the existence of the thinly boarded-over basement in him, who is most made over for the purposes of a society that does not even promise him perfection or salvation but merely buys him off.”

Men Looks Doe Made Real Self Purpose Social Existence Needed Promise Perfection Paid Salvation Deny Contracts Procedures Bourgeois Selected Basements Real Self Social Contract

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“The two of us had come a long way together from our humble beginnings and the basement apartment that had been our first home as newlyweds in 1957, when I was still a law student at Laval University in Quebec City.”

Way Firsts Long Stills Two Home Together Law Cities Students University Humble Apartment Long Way Basements Quebec Two Of Us Newlyweds Humble Beginnings Law Students First Home

Author:Jean Chretien

“We need government and business to work together for the benefit of everyone. It should no longer be just about typical "corporate social responsibility" where the "responsibility" bit is usually the realm of a small team buried in a basement office - now it should be about every single person in a business taking responsibility to make a difference in everything they do, at work and in their personal lives.”

“It'sthe fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games.”

Ends Home Games Fate Tables Desperate Basements Ping Ping Pong

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“The shouting, the overrunning of the Capitol, the sneaking in of Tea Party participants into the basement of the Capitol, the name-calling, the spitting, all of that... The Tea Party emerges as not only outrageous, but they have turned up the volume in ways that even Code Pink have not been able to do.”

Way Able Names Party Calling Tea Code Volume Outrageous Shouting Participants Tea Party Basements Capitol Name Calling

Author:Maxine Waters

“This guy, when I met him he was 47 years old, he'd just come out of a divorce and he was, you know, very desirable. He had every Cosmo cover girl and undercover girl. They were just coming out of his ears. Baking cakes on his doorstep, one in the back door, one on the roof, one waiting in the basement, another in the elevator. So I know I have to keep an eye on him.”

Knows Years Eye Guy Girl Waiting Doors Mets Ears Divorce Cake Coming Out Roof Desirable This Guy Baking Basements Elevators Doorstep Back Doors Undercover Cover Girl Baking A Cake

Author:Pia Zadora

“We see a lot of startup companies, people that have a home-based office, they've been working out of their basement for two or three years, and now their basement or kids cannot accommodate them any longer.”

People Years Two Home Kids Three Company Office Work Out Three Years Accommodate Basements

Author:Nancy Fox

“I am surprised at all the people in the high-tech industry focused on "making money"... If that's all they want to do, they should have a $100 printing press in their basements and they will truly "make money." Instead, if we focus all that energy on innovation, we'll change the world for the best.”

People Ifs World Want Should Energy Focus Industry Should Have Innovation Presses Focused Making Money Changing The World Printing Basements Printing Press

Author:Philippe Kahn

“One of the leading causes of divorce is sexual incompatibility. Why not mandate premarital sex, overseen, of course, by the Marriage Board to ensure that it was carried out and completed as required? The final exam question could be: "Was it good for you two?" For good measure, the engaged couple should be required to work together on a home improvement project like installing a kitchen sink or finishing a basement. That's the ultimate test of a marital relationship.”

“Watch how the propaganda unfolds once the bombing is over and the Americans are running Baghdad and their spin machine. There will be the discovery of Saddam's secret arsenal, probably in the basement of one his palaces.”

Running Secret Watches Discovery Machines Propaganda Saddam Palaces Bombing Arsenal Basements Baghdad

Author:John Pilger

“In a fight against Juggernaut and Cassidy in their spacious castle basement, Cassidy mentions the word 'tomb' to the X-Men. That's all it took to send Storm into a claustrophobic fit that leaves her in a heap on the floor for three straight issues. Imagine if he would have said 'Small Closet' or 'Size 2 Jeans.'”

Ifs Men Said Fighting Three Issues Imagine Fit Size Storm Closets Jeans Castles Tombs Basements X Men Juggernaut Kryptonite

Author:Seanbaby

“It was quite a sight to see Obama next to President Hu. Obama has a Nobel Peace Prize in his basement, and Hu has a Nobel Peace Prize winner in his.”

Next President Sight Winner Prize Nobel Basements Nobel Peace Prize

Author:Bill Maher

“You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.”

Needs Heart Ends Lying Jesus Loses Who You Are Track Supposed To Be Flats Dirt Basements

Book:Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith

Source: Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith

“I don't like basements, but definitely basements could be poems. Not fond of skin diseases, but again, there's a pattern. Probably anything could be a poem.”

Disease Skins Patterns Basements

Author:Matthea Harvey

“As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000.”

Writing Important Stories Media Materials Organization Prison Partners Release My Time Revelations Solitary Cables Basements Robust Victorian Confinement Wikileaks Solitary Confinement

Author:Julian Assange

“Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors' houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that's not the way the novelistic ecology works.”

Ifs Way Years Book Suffering House Water Novel Sky Praise Presses Damage Dozen Ecology Basements

Author:Lev Grossman

“Being Canadian and from Winnipeg, I have the spirit of a dreamer because of the cold, and being in the basement thinking of possibilities of where else I can be in the world, in a good way!”

Thinking World Way I Can Spirit Possibility Cold Dreamer Good Way Basements Winnipeg

Author:Sarah Carter

“People think living in your parents' basement until you're twenty-nine is lame. But what they don't realize is that while you're there, you save money on rent, food, and dates.”

People Thinking Parent Realizing Twenties Nine Saving Money Lame Basements

Book:Everything and a Kite

Source: Everything and a Kite

“Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.”

Kind Matter Age Waiting Sound Dark No Matter What Closets Basements Waiting For You

Author:R. L. Stine

“Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.”

Ends Father Office Ireland Desks Basements Albany

Author:John Jeremiah Sullivan

“I wrote my first play, Uncommon Women and Others, in the hopes of seeing an all-female curtain call in the basement of the Yale School of Drama. A man in the audience stood up during a post show discussion and announced, “I can't get into this, it's all about girls.” I thought to myself, “Well, I've been getting in to Hamlet and Laurence of Arabia my whole life, so you better start trying.””

Men Trying Firsts Wells I Can Play Whole Shows School Girl Audience Seeing Drama Female Whole Life Posts Discussion Curtains Arabia Uncommon Basements Stood Up Yale Curtain Call

Author:Wendy Wasserstein

“Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work.”

Writing Stories White Rooms Clean Shirts Ties Ritual Desks Jackets Basements Boiler White Shirts Boiler Room

Author:Mona Simpson

“For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.”

War Dark Wife Despair Clouds Divorce Isolated Veteran Family Life Basements Upstairs Bewildered Dark Clouds Hang Over

Book:What It Is Like To Go To War

Source: What It Is Like To Go To War

“My first time performing was in the black box theater of my high school's basement as a member of 'Clownaz,' the school's improv team. We charged money for tickets, saying the proceeds went to our school's recycling program. Then, immediately after the show, we divided up all the money and kept it.”

Firsts Shows School Black Team Members High School First Time Program Theater Boxes Performing Divided Tickets Basements Recycling Black Boxes

Author:Joe Mande

“Just like every kid who comes into show business on some level, I used to put shows on in my basement. I even started with doing tricks and having a ventriloquist dummy.”

Shows Kids Used Levels Tricks Show Business Basements Dummy

Author:Don Scardino

“I feel like being nerd is not about the superficial quality; it's about how nerds approach life. It's much more emotional and mental than it is you're some fat guy living in your mom's basement, which I think is just a hacky stereotype.”

Thinking Feels Guy Quality Emotional Mom Approach Fats Superficial Stereotype Nerd Your Mom Basements

Author:Chris Hardwick

“We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.”

“Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Lower the bar. Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement.”

Perfect Enemy Minutes Ten Spending Bars Weekend Shelves Cleaning Basements Clearing Authentic Happiness

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“It's never been about football, but about becoming the best and fullest person I could be. And to think that I went from the kid with a GPA in the basement to going to college on a football scholarship-I was thankful and humbled by how far I'd come in just a few years. I knew that miracles really do happen.”

Thinking Years Persons Happens Kids Football College Becoming Miracle Nfl Scholarship Basements Going To College Becoming The Best Gpa

Book:I Beat The Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond

Source: I Beat The Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond

“If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.”

Ifs Long Teacher Teaching Long Time Professors Locked Basements Hostage

Author:Terry H. Anderson

“An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room too small for his workroom as these conditions imply low rental.”

Dark Rooms Conditions Lows Regard Stable Foul Basements Contractor Tenements Hull House

Book:Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

“I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check.”

Might Checks Basements Upstairs

Author:M. C. Escher

“I think it is love of that blue vault of sky that becomes your playground if, and only if, you are a fighter pilot. You don't understand it if you fly from A to B in straight and level, and merely climb and descend. You're moving through the basement of that bolt of blue.”

Ifs Thinking Moving Levels Sky Blue Flight Fighter Climbs Aviation Pilots Bolts Basements Playgrounds Ifs And Vaults Fighter Pilot

Author:Robin Olds

“If at age 10 I say there are monsters in the basement and they don't believe it, I would have stayed in that house. My father would have said "Shut up and get to your room." So I thought the only sanctioned tyranny in the world is parenthood and everybody goes "Yeah." It's a dictatorship - parenthood.”

Ifs World Believe Said Age Father House Rooms Yeah Don't Believe Monsters Tyranny Parenthood Dictatorship Shut Up Basements Your Room

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“I love hitting the stage and I don't think I could trade that for sitting in the basement making beats.”

Thinking Stage Beats Sitting Trade Hitting Basements

Author:Kid Ink

“We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri.”

Lions Basements Missouri

Author:Tippi Hedren

“I think I never passed so sad an hour, Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night. The edifice from basement to the tower Was one resplendent blaze of coloured light.”

Thinking Light Night Friendship Hours Church Dear Towers Basements Dear Friend So Sad Edifice

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“Kristen Stewart always looks like she's posing for pictures taken in a basement by her creepy uncle.”

Looks Humor Funny Taken Uncles Creepy Basements Posing Picture Taken

Author:Chelsea Handler

“I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting.”

Ifs Home Painting Drawing Stuck Basements Painting And Drawing

Author:Terry Crews

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