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Basement smells bad. Look for cat poops, change litter. -- Martha Stewart
Every time I get in an elevator, the operator says the same thing to me: `Basement?' -- Rodney Dangerfield
Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent 'Basement Tapes' will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilson's reasons for the destruction of the tapes for 'Smile.' -- Jon Landau
There is no victory at bargain basement prices. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business. -- Linda Fiorentino
A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement. -- Antonin Scalia
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I don't like going into the basement. I'm always afraid that something's going to blow up. -- Roz Chast
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check. -- M. C. Escher
Most people treat the news media like the exercise bike they have in their basement. They're glad it's there but they never use it. -- Drew Curtis
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. -- Gretchen Rubin
My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night. -- Sam Abell
Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - you know there is no such thing as 'cold.' There is only less heat. -- Alton Brown
White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it. -- Rob Zombie
Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement! -- John Piper
When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant. -- William Scranton
I know that collector types can be a pain in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time - or at least in their parents' basement - but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever. -- Henry Rollins
After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found myself writing all these songs, just taking advantage of the relaxed situation. I wrote about 30 songs in about 30 days. -- Jimmy Chamberlin
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. -- Karl Marlantes
After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations. -- David Sedaris
It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on a play. I mean, any play, anywhere - on Broadway or the Bowery or in a church basement. -- Ben Brantley
When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one. -- Mick Ralphs
I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in. -- John Green
My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir. -- Mavis Staples
I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly. -- Eddi Reader
I'm always working on new songs. With the technology these days, any idiot can record on Pro Tools on your laptop. All you have to do is plug a microphone into the input jack and anybody can have their own recording studio. So I'm always down in my basement, singing along to riffs or whoever I'm collaborating with. -- Sebastian Bach
When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and then you get the feedback. When you do work online, the moment you're finished making it, people start responding to it which is really fun and allows for a kind of community development you just can't have in novels. -- John Green
The sea is not a bargain basement. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
You can't be a legend in your parent's basement. -- Joe Walsh
I recently attended a pro-drug rally... in my basement. -- David Cross
Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore. -- Francoise Giroud
A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement. -- Neal Stephenson
It's actually safe to create a universe in your basement. -- Alan Guth
Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush. -- Peter Murphy
I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check. -- M. C. Escher
No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
A clean basement, garage and attic are signs of an empty life. -- Doug Larson
Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement. -- Mark Frost
I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming. -- Sebastian Bach
Here is another marvy glimpse into the gothic basement that I call my mind. -- Louise Rennison
Texas is dicktown. No basement in the alamo. I didnt capitalize that on purpose. -- CM Punk
We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri. -- Tippi Hedren
The ego is like a kid in the basement: It's best to keep him busy. -- Tim Allen
If something bad smells in the basement, it will eventually make its way to the attic. -- Anthony Liccione
Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government. -- Bob Dylan
Militant mothers hiding in the basement using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets. -- Alice Cooper
I keep my fears chained up in the basement, along with a few of my foes. -- Jarod Kintz
To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets ... -- John Ashbery
No curfew. I live in the basement. I got everything I need. Home cooking ... it's awesome. -- Mike Trout
Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement. -- Rick Yancey
It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement. -- Ray Bradbury
You can put me in the basement or the penthouse, it doesnâ??t matter to me. -- Davy Jones
During the war an Italian girl saved my life. She hid me in her basement in Cleveland. -- Henny Youngman
Kristen Stewart always looks like she's posing for pictures taken in a basement by her creepy uncle. -- Chelsea Handler
Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move. -- John Densmore
If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you. -- Terry H. Anderson
I've gotta get out of the basement. I've gotta see the world. I've gotta make a difference -- Gerard Way
I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets. -- Francis Ford Coppola
The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money. -- Stephen King
Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement. -- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church. -- Robert Farrar Capon
I love hitting the stage and I don't think I could trade that for sitting in the basement making beats. -- Kid Ink
Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from. -- Stephen Karam
If you were to sell your character, would you get full retail or would it go for a bargain-basement price? -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement. -- Markus Zusak
In my experience, 'let's think about it' usually ends up as me watching Solid Gold in my basement on prom night. -- LIZ
I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window. -- Jessica Hahn
I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me -- Emily Dickinson
I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting. -- Terry Crews
I love getting into the basement of a courthouse, and all the dusty records - all that stuff makes me really happy. -- Sharon Cameron
Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement. -- Neil Young
I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work. -- Geddy Lee
It's certainly strange to do sketch comedy with cue cards at midnight in a skyscraper as opposed to in a basement with your friends. -- Casey Wilson
My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement. -- Lindi Ortega
If the watchdog doesn't bark, how do you know there's a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog. -- Bill Moyers
All the green-screen stuff - all the special effects stuff - I shot right there in my house, in the basement in my theater room. ... -- Vickie Winans
I still have a 15å?? sticker on the frame of my law degree. It's tainted, so I just leave it in the basement. -- Clarence Thomas
The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her. -- Ross Perot
Sherry Carroll is a real life Penny Lane and one wonders if she hasn't got Cameron Crowe or Lester Bangs hidden somewhere in her suburban basement. -- Maria Waters
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. -- John Jeremiah Sullivan
I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?" You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement. -- Markus Zusak
I love to run. When the weather's bad, I should get on the treadmill in the basement gym of my apartment building, but I lack the motivation. -- Tom Riley
Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands. -- Markus Zusak
My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night. -- Tatiana Maslany
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. -- John Jeremiah Sullivan
I told him I had always kept my inner Martha Stewart chained in the basement, but for his sake I would set her loose.â? ~ Haven Travis -- Lisa Kleypas
As a band, it's just me trying to please my own basement-hardcore sensibilities that I grew up with. It's not actually the future of anything, it's totally nostalgia. -- Geoff Rickly
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. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Denial is pushing something out of your awareness. Anything you hide in the basement has a way of burrowing under the house and showing up on the front lawn. -- Howard Sasportas
I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check. We adore chaos because we love to produce order. I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough. -- M. C. Escher
He knew the truth. Yes, my dear child, he would undoubtedly tell a terrified toddler tremulously seeking succor, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement. -- Rick Yancey
For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window. -- Mitch Albom
They came out in a dim, damp basement - a generic sort of place, full of moulding boxes. 'You take me to the nicest places,' Claire said, and sneezed. -- Rachel Caine
In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on working missiles and launching them at their neighbors. -- Barton Gellman
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. -- Ray Romano
Due to my work as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and author, hundreds of people stream in and out of my basement studio to help me with my creative projects. -- Dan Hill
Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification. -- Joe McNally
When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it. -- Klaus Nomi
My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating. -- Ben Affleck
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. -- Bill Maher
I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life. -- Henri Nouwen
The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark. -- Steven Brust
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. -- Don Scardino
Don't believe bands who say it's all about the fans and they want to give their music away for free. The result is they will continue to live in their mother's basement. -- Gene Simmons
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... -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Practical storage pieces are great if you have a basement or a garage. But when you actually live with them day in and day out, they should be beautiful to look at. -- Thom Filicia
Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church basement full of Republicans and Christians who drink to much. -- Bucky Sinister
If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible. -- Barack Obama
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. -- Jane Addams
My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later. -- Douglas Preston
SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture. -- Patrick Califia
In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just a single finger to set them blazing toward destruction. -- Jack Ketchum
The first time you buy a house you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men. -- Lupe Velez
Life is a miracle. YOU are a unique expression of this purposeful miracle. Think of how GREAT that makes you. Live big! You are not here to dwell within the basement of your potentiality. -- Steve Maraboli
When I started Virgin from a basement flat in West London, I did not set out to build a business empire. I set out to create something I enjoyed that would pay the bills. -- Richard Branson
I felt like the blonde in every horror movie who hears a noise in the basement and goes to investigate alone. Sometimes you smell the stupid all around you, but you step in it anyway. -- Ann Aguirre
The last thing I need is for daughter to move back into my basement and become another unemployed millennial statistic. Would love for her to get a job at Facebook. Become the president of Google. -- Kate Siegel
Our Lord never called His people to help build the tower of Babel in the hope of getting a Bible study in the basement. He commanded us to build our own city on a hill. -- David Chilton
The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was not a washroom. They were not sent there for a shower. For those people, life was still achievable. -- Markus Zusak
I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living. -- Kid Rock

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