Basements Quotes - Page 3

• Taylor clapped for attention. “Miss New Mexico, let’s not get all down in the bummer basement where the creepy things live. There are people in heathen China who don’t even have airline trays. We have a lot to be grateful for.

  Libba Bray

  Grateful, People, Missing

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.31, Scholastic Inc.

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• He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only one in the house who wasn't afraid to go into the basement by himself. He cut himself shaving, but no one kissed it or got excited about it. It was understood when it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door. When anyone was sick, he went out to get the prescription filled. He took lots of pictures... but he was never in them.

  Erma Bombeck

  Daughter, Father, Cutting

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• Now, of course, architecture is a blind spot of our life in America today. How many millions of students go to the university to be educated? They come away conditioned, not enlightened, and they know nothing of architecture, although they have a department somewhere around -- probably in the basement.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  America, Blind Spots, Today

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

  Jonathan Franzen

  Home, Fate, Games

  2001 The Corrections.

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• You are wise as well as short." "I can also break bricks with my bare hands." "That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath.

  Nora Roberts

  Wise, Hands, Skills

  Nora Roberts (2012). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.1079, Penguin

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• I was trying to decide if you still had free will as a wolf. If I was a terrible person for planning to drug my girlfriend and drag her back to my house to keep in the basement.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Relationship, Girlfriend, House

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.604, Scholastic Inc.

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• She got under the covers and put her arms around the bag. She could smell Tibby. It used to be she couldn't smell Tibby's smell in the way you couldn't smell your own; it was too familiar. But tonight she could. This was some living part of Tibby still here and she held on to it. There was more of Tibby with her here and now than in what she had seen in the cold basement room that day.

  Ann Brashares

  Smell, Bags, Tonight

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.54, Random House

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• 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

  Father, Office, Ends

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• I wrote my first play, Uncommon Women and Others, in the hopes of seeing an all-female curtain call in the basement of the Yale School of Drama. A man in the audience stood up during a post show discussion and announced, “I can't get into this, it's all about girls.” I thought to myself, “Well, I've been getting in to Hamlet and Laurence of Arabia my whole life, so you better start trying.”

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Girl, Drama, School

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• 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

  Photography, Father, Dark

  "A Life in Photos: Q&A with Sam Abell". Interview with Jenny Wells, uknow.uky.edu. July 20, 2012.

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• 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

  Weekend, Perfect, Enemy

  "9 Quick Tips for Keeping Your Home Feeling Serene and Organized" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2012.

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• Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.

  R. L. Stine

  Dark, Waiting, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Patience, Time, Children

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• It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Writing, Library

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• Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.

  Peter Murphy

  Writing, Crafts, Toothbrushes

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• People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and gaze out onto a single window that shows me a cement wall. This is a profession, and it's important to have professionalism about the writing.

  Nathaniel Philbrick

  Wall, Ocean, Inspiration

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• The two of us had come a long way together from our humble beginnings and the basement apartment that had been our first home as newlyweds in 1957, when I was still a law student at Laval University in Quebec City.

  Jean Chretien

  Home, Humble, Law

  "My Years As Prime Minister". Book by Jean Chrétien, 2007.

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• Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched in the basements of libraries around the world, madly feeding books through their machines. I download obscure tomes onto my iPad and give thanks to the dual gods Gates and Jobs, singing hymns to all the lesser pantheon of geniuses. But there's nothing like a book.

  Laurie R. King

  Jobs, Book, Hymns

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• When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics. At night,the dark is blue and bluer still, as sapphire of night.

  Alice Hoffman

  Husband, Dark, Night

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.260, Penguin Group

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• 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

  Stupid, Smell, Blonde

  Ann Aguirre (2009). “Blue Diablo: A Corine Solomon Novel”, p.28, Penguin

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• How could you let him do this? (Shahara) I know you’re not going to pin this on me, Shay. I didn’t raise the embryo. You did. It’s what you get for teaching him things like honor, love, courage, and loyalty. If you’d left him a scared little snot-nose, he’d still be living in your basement. (Vik)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Loyalty, Teaching, Honor

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• I feel like being nerd is not about the superficial quality; it's about how nerds approach life. It's much more emotional and mental than it is you're some fat guy living in your mom's basement, which I think is just a hacky stereotype.

  Chris Hardwick

  Mom, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Kids, Levels, Used

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  War, Divorce, Dark

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like to Go to War”, p.193, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The sea is not a bargain basement.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Sea, Bargains

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