Quotes About Basements

#1. 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

#2. I am not ranting. I possess a perspective here that you people, who are locked in the ivory basements of your own sub-cultures, simply do not possess.

Bruce Sterling

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

John Sandford

#4. If you spend a lot of time with activists, as I have, they're just ordinary people who instead of Netflix are getting together in church basements and making posters or making phone calls doing organizing work. It really is about finding a community of other people.

Avi Lewis

#5. One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.

Henry Rollins

#6. 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

#7. I've never met anyone who's left a comment on anything. It's just demons who live in basements.

Robert Pattinson

#8. 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

#9. When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That's exactly the wrong reaction. In fact, now is a good time for them to loosen up - a chance to breathe and experiment a little - and go for the juicy solution lurking in their own basements.

Jerry Saltz

#10. 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,.

Nicolas Sarkozy

#11. Torture, after all, is inconspicuous; all it needs is water, a piece of wood and a loud voice. It takes place in squalid rooms, dirty back yards and basements, and there is nothing left to preserve when it is over.

Eric Lomax

#12. At a time when all the other builders were selling homes with basements but without carports, we would sell homes without basements and with carports. This allowed us to provide a more appealing product at a lower price. In other words, we felt we would be giving customers greater value.

Eli Broad

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.

Ian Somerhalder

#16. You deserve so much more than hiding out in high school basements. You don't deserve to be someone's secret, Ashlyn. You deserve to be the chorus to a person's favourite song. You deserve to be the dedication in their favourite book.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#17. Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. But lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it.

Tanya Davis

#18. 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

#19. It's the fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games.

Jonathan Franzen

#20. This is Louisiana, we don't have basements because of the water level.

Leah Rae Miller

#21. I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday morning theater performances in one-third-filled church basements. So, I paid my dues.

Silas Weir Mitchell

#22. 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.

Philippe Kahn

#23. what is it about me and basements? Why do I like the semi-subterranean life?

William Boyd

#24. I would love to do a reunion tour if it only involved basements across the U.S.

Carrie Brownstein

#25. They meet in church basements and offer bandages to those wounded by the shrapnel of exploding families.

Margaret Atwood

#26. This might be one of the few basements in Southern California, but it was clearly being used the way Juan's family used the garage.

Vernor Vinge

#27. I travel in gardens and bedrooms, basements and attics, around corners, through doorways and windows, along sidewalks, over carpets, down drainpipes, in the sky, with friends, lovers, children and heros; perceived, remembered, imagined, distorted and clarified.

Tom Robbins

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. When I grew up, scientists were anti-social people who worked in basements and wore coats and worked with bunson burners, and now they're in our technology every day, and our technology has almost become fashion accessories.

Johnny Galecki

#31. Harper's face was buried in Mr. Truffle's fur and with each inhalation she smelled the last nine months of his secret cat life: must, dust, grave dirt, basements and tall grass, beach and drainpipe, Dumpster and dandelions. The

Joe Hill

#32. 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

#33. It was a dense, moldering night, smelling of damp old basements and times best left unstirred.

Edward Fahey

#34. I recently attended a pro-drug rally ... in my basement.

David Cross

#35. It's actually safe to create a universe in your basement.

Alan Guth

#36. The sea is not a bargain basement.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#37. 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.

#38. He [my father] didn't have a basement workshop as such, but I know that he did build things, construct things, repair things. My mother, likewise, was sewing and doing activities that often take place in a household.

Paul Smith

#39. No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

F Scott Fitzgerald

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

Terry H. Anderson