Cellar One Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me.
I nodded.
'And he's taking you with him?'
I nodded again.
'Where?' she asked.
I pointed towards the centre of the earth.
'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant.
'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.

Jules Verne

#3. 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

#4. bad lobster in a dark cellar. It

Charles Dickens

#5. The Torment turned his head to him, and frowned. "Who are you?"
"I'm ... sorry? It's me, it's Vaurien. Vaurien Scapegrace. I ... built the cellar for you?"
"Oh," the Torment said. "You. Why are you back? I thought you were dead. It would have been nice if you were dead

Derek Landy

#6. She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar.

Stephen King

#7. Born in a cellar ... and living in a garret.

Samuel Foote

#8. It's never good to owe money to a guy with a cellar full of military hardware. Especially not when he rides with an outlaw biker gang.

Craig Schaefer

#9. Thank you so much, Dobby, for rescuing me from that cellar. It's so unfair that you had to die, when you were so good and brave. I'll always remember what you did for us. I hope you're happy now.

J.K. Rowling

#10. 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

#11. I told my wife a man is like wine, he gets better with age. She locked me in the cellar.

Rodney Dangerfield

#12. Where the heck was I while you were playing Grand Theft Cellar?

Rachel Hawkins

#13. The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns or the files of the Department of State.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. She also apparently had a bona fide dungeon in her house. At least that's what Inez told me when we arrived. Maude, overhearing as she passed by, rolled her eyes. It's not a dungeon, Inez. It's a wine cellar.

Richelle Mead

#15. She swallowed his blood, a dark vintage from some forgotten cellar. She felt like Persephone in Hades, pomegranate seeds bursting against her teeth, juice rolling on her tongue, and the more she had, the more she hungered.

Holly Black

#16. 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

#17. The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato, and making a snug bed even there of some hair left after plastering and of brown paper; for even the wildest animals love comfort and warmth as well as man, and they survive the winter only because they are so careful to secure them.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful.

Henry Ward Beecher

#19. No one was enchanted beyond saving in the songs. The hero always saved them. There was no ugly moment in a dark cellar where the countess wept and cried out protest while three wizards put the count to death, and then made court politics out of it.

Naomi Novik

#20. 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

#21. Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar ... you never know.

Francis Bacon

#22. As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

Van Wyck Brooks

#23. What the heck is that?" I asked, pointing to a dark stain in the nearest corner.
"Okay, number one question you *don't* want to hear in a creepy cellar," Archer said ...

Rachel Hawkins

#24. 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

#25. Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.

Graham Joyce

#26. And George saw the clown's face change. What he saw then was terrible enough to make his worst imaginings of the thing in the cellar look like sweet dreams; what he saw destroyed his sanity in one clawing stroke. "They

Stephen King

#27. It's just one of the old-world fears, carrying over."
"What's that?"
"The fear of the cellar.

Josh Malerman

#28. But I shall like my battle. This sort of day puts one in mood for it. Plenty of wood in the shed, jam and potatoes and apples in the cellar, hay and oats and Cressy in the barn. Pooh - what is winter?

Anne Bosworth Greene

#29. A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has his hours in the cellar ... but he believes in the truth of the hours he spends upstairs.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#30. She could be affectionate, generous, and optimistic one day; vengeful, depressed, and irritable the next. In the colloquial language of her friends, she was "either in the garret or cellar." In either mood, she needed attention, something the self-contained Lincoln was not always able to provide.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#31. God had saved him from the fish cellar and that could only mean one thing. He had more work to do. (John Frith, p.64)

Brenda Rickman Vantrease

#32. The ideal of a well-stocked mind aiming at excellence in all walks of life has been replaced by the dream of a well-stocked wine cellar, the cellar now being a specially made wine cooler strategically placed in one's house, to be viewed by even the most unobservant visitor.

Dimitris Mita

#33. He shook his head,'Fuck, you say such fucking weird things.'
'Is that still your favourite word?' asked Isola interestedly, 'I like "verisimilitude". Tolkein said the most beautiful English phrase is "cellar door",

Allyse Near

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. Voting's important," Corrado said, pausing at the cellar door. "People like to feel like they actually have a say in what happens, even if it's just an illusion.

J.M. Darhower

#38. I had ignored that black cellar and gone looking for the substance of Orgoreyn aboveground, in daylight. No wonder nothing had seemed real. I

Ursula K. Le Guin

#39. One quart milk, one quart cream, one dozen eggs, 12 tablespoons sugar, one pint brandy, half-pint rye whiskey, quarter-pint rum, quarter-pint sherry. Mix. Store by cool window or in cellar.

Kristiana Gregory

#40. We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.

William Cowper

#41. It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.

E.B. White

#42. I thought about how unlikely it was I would ever meet any guy,fall in love, get married, have babies. Especially since I was going to spend the rest of my life in the cellar, where, in the not too distant future, I'd turn into a toadstool. I hoped I'd be the poisonous variety.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#43. 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

#44. I laughed. 'It's a cellar Phil, calling it your recording studio does not make that sentence any less creepy.

Alison Davis

#45. I'm not that complicated, Haven. The truth is, I've wanted you ever since I met you in that damned wine cellar. Because I got a bigger charge out of that five minutes than I have with any woman before or since ...

Lisa Kleypas

#46. What does he remember? He saw the engineer Bernd close the cellar door and sit on the stairs.

Anthony Doerr

#47. To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#48. We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough room in a man's head for sanity alongside each grief, each worry, each terror that he owns. I'm well used to burying such things in a dark cellar and moving on.

Mark Lawrence

#49. Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.

M.J. Rose

#50. 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

#51. I knew there was an old axe down cellar; that is all I knew.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#52. 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

#53. Bernard was stunned. He knew the Germans had hauled away millions of bottles of wine from his country; he had even seen some of it stolen from the village where he once worked, but a wine cellar on top of a mountain seemed incredible. To be the one who would open it was almost overwhelming.

Don Kladstrup

#54. Bottles of wine aren't like paintings. At some point you have to consume them. The object in life is to die with no bottles of wine in your cellar. To drink your last bottle of wine and go to sleep that night and not wake up.

Jay McInerney

#55. I'll email you, he says as if he's asking me into the cellar to taste his vintage champagne.

Poppet

#56. Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women
can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is instead, an
inner spiritual strength which enables them to face those
storms with hope and serenity.

Sam Ervin

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. Looks as if the Ignormus was in the house when you were in the cellar," she said. "And he tried to scare you with the hose, and with that warning note. And yet -

Walter R. Brooks

#60. When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

Samuel Rutherford

#61. We ask only to be reassured
About the noises in the cellar
And the window that should not have been open

T. S. Eliot

#62. I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.

William Congreve

#63. Whenever I find myself in the cellar of affliction, I always look about for the wine.

Samuel Rutherford

#64. And what's more, he'll go and live with his friend unless his friend is allowed to come in and live with him ... His friend must have a silk cushion just like his and sleep in your room too. Otherwise he will go and sleep in the coal-cellar with his friend

P.L. Travers