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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
I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming. -- Sebastian Bach
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. -- Theodore Roosevelt
To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets ... -- John Ashbery
I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets. -- Francis Ford Coppola
I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window. -- Jessica Hahn
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
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
So far, the only major accomplishment of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters is that they have finally put an end to their previous initiative, Occupy Our Mothers' Basements. -- Ann Coulter
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
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
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
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
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
Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town. -- Roger Bannister
It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did. -- Paul Westerberg
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
Success is like a high-rise building I'm on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the basement or the parking lot but I was lucky enough to have made it to the first floor and I'm looking to make it to the penthouse. -- Justin Guarini
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. -- Julian Assange
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters. -- Norman Maclean
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. -- William H. Gass
I would love to do a reunion tour if it only involved basements across the U.S. -- Carrie Brownstein
I've never met anyone who's left a comment on anything. It's just demons who live in basements. -- Robert Pattinson
Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future. -- Ian Somerhalder
It'sthe fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games. -- Jonathan Franzen
Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations. -- John Sandford
Explain to me, if you will, why alcoholism is a disease but can only be treated by attending little spiritual meetings in basements. -- Vicki Covington
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. -- Matthea Harvey
Far too many young people are living in their parents' basements, and I think it is important for people to have hope and a vision things can be different. -- Ted Cruz
. . .the world as we see it is only the published version. The subterranean realms, whether churches or hospital rooms or smoke-filled basements, are part of what hold up the rest. -- Gail Caldwell
Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those. -- Candice Olson
I remember laughing an inordinate amount of time. Setting up scenes that involve ooze coming out basements, or pigs' heads flying through windows is really fun. How could you not laugh? -- Margot Kidder
Kisses open doors, I've noticed. That one gesture can unlock secrets, ease open feelings. It can't be prevented--these kisses just are. It's how they work. They break into basements you never knew you had. -- Susan Fletcher

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