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My perfect night would be going out to an awesome restaurant, then heading over to the Comedy Cellar to hang out with other comics, drinking beers and making fun of each other. -- Anthony Jeselnik
When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book) -- George Saintsbury
Born in a cellar... and living in a garret. -- Samuel Foote
Hobbies take place in the cellar and smell of airplane glue. -- John Updike
But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic. -- Sherman Alexie
I knew there was an old axe down cellar; that is all I knew. -- Lizzie Andrew Borden
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. -- Henry David Thoreau
When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. -- Samuel Rutherford
When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet. -- Lizzie Andrew Borden
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. -- Samuel Butler
Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. -- Arthur Miller
Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate. -- Agnes Macphail
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I like white wine when it's young and vigorous. I don't think you should cellar white wine at all, unless it's white Burgundy, and definitely not nonvintage Champagne. -- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really. -- David Bailey
I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.' -- Baz Luhrmann
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
When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar. -- Jacques Pepin
Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed. We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me. -- Lou Holtz
I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.' Immediately, when I was 10, I started photographing nature. I built a darkroom. My first really good darkroom, not just down in the cellar, was when I was 14. -- Bill Atkinson
When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just 'the wine,' from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course. -- Jacques Pepin
I found many treasures in the woods over the years: shotgun shells, empty Colt 45 bottles, old railroad spikes, orange and black beetles eating a dead mouse, pebbles that looked just like teeth, old stone walls and cellar holes, a rusted out frying pan, the skull of a cat. -- Jennifer McMahon
Honestly, my entire childhood could be summed up with one word: Reader. I was always hunched over a book; in fact, I was the only kid in the world who got paler in the summer, because I'd sneak down into our cool, dank cellar and sit alone with a book for hours. -- Kristan Higgins
To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction. -- Edvard Munch
We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards. -- Warren Farrell
What's important in a cellar is having wines that have a broad range of drinkability, which California Cabernet does. Wines with a broad range of drinkability give you a lot of flexibility; they are the sort of wines that make me feel secure. I think of my wine cellar as security - if the apocalypse comes, I can just go down to the cellar. -- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
The only reason I felt like I could sing a song like 'Blown Away' is because I have definitely lived through my fair share of trips to the cellar in the spring. We were no stranger to that. I still ask my mom, 'Is the cellar cleaned out now? Is everything OK?' Even in my new house, I had something built in it that's like a storm shelter. -- Carrie Underwood
The very best of vineyards is the cellar -- Lord Byron
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Born in a cellar, and living in a garret. -- Samuel Foote
Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed. -- James Boswell
A man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar. -- Andre Simon
I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar. -- William Congreve
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar -- Henry David Thoreau
As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day. -- Van Wyck Brooks
We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean. -- William Cowper
I told my wife a man is like wine, he gets better with age. She locked me in the cellar. -- Rodney Dangerfield
I bet it's hard to break farmers of the old superstitions like "Tornado got Old Yeller, stay in the cellar." -- Jack Handey
We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open -- T. S. Eliot
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. -- Samuel Rutherford
It is my conviction that when events are forgotten, buried in the cellar of the page, they are no longer even history. -- Katherine Ann Porter
When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar. -- P.B. Kerr
To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream -- Gaston Bachelard
When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp... -- James Russell Lowell
Too many of the organizations I have observed resemble a farm in Kansas. They have lots of fences and silos as well as a storm cellar. -- Marcus Buckingham
It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Like thousands of other boys, I had a little chemical laboratory in our cellar and think that some of our friends thought me a bit crazy. -- Linus Pauling
He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar. -- Gaston Leroux
A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs. -- Robert Benchley
Of course I am grateful, and I'm sure you are, as you put it, a special vintage," Bill said politely, "But I have my own wine cellar. -- Charlaine Harris
Now I lay me down to sleep my bomb proof cellar's good and deep but if i'm killed before I wake remember god it's for your sake amen. -- Dalton Trumbo
The Gamma paused. "You have a crazed werewolf in your wine cellar?" "You can think of a better place to stash him?" "What about the wine? -- Gail Carriger
If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial. -- George Eliot
people like to keep their little secrets to themselves. It's like growing mushrooms in the cellar and running down to take a look at them now and then. -- Marjorie Kellogg
I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house. -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar. -- Horace
On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar. -- Thomas Jefferson
I should say upfront that I have never been in a cellar in my life. In fact, I can see no reason why anyone should ever go into a cellar unless there is wine involved. -- Rachel Hawkins
To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you only nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big. -- Aristotle Onassis

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