Basements Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The sea is not a bargain basement.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Sea, Bargains

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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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• We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basement prices, in return for the false promise of more security... The America being designed right now won't resemble the America we've been defending... The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Brother, Wall, America

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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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• But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated how much I liked him. Not him, perhaps, but the fact that I had someone on the other end of an invisible line. Someone to update and get updates from, to inform of a comic discovery, to imagine while dancing in a lonely basement, and to return to, finally, when the music stopped.

  Marina Keegan

  Love, Lonely, Discovery

  Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Practical storage pieces are great if you have a basement or a garage. But when you actually live with them day in and day out, they should be beautiful to look at.

  Thom Filicia

  Beautiful, Looks, Pieces

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

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• I think I never passed so sad an hour, Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night. The edifice from basement to the tower Was one resplendent blaze of coloured light.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Friendship, Night, Thinking

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1407, Delphi Classics

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• Kristen Stewart always looks like she's posing for pictures taken in a basement by her creepy uncle.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Uncles, Taken

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• 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.

  Character, Retail, Bargains

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• No curfew. I live in the basement. I got everything I need. Home cooking ... it's awesome.

  Mike Trout

  Home, Cooking, Needs

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• Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent 'Basement Tapes' will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilson's reasons for the destruction of the tapes for 'Smile.'

  Jon Landau

  Decision, Forever, Tape

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• But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we've lost that mind-set. We don't have a bowling alley in our basement. We don't have houses on the beach and one in New York and one in L.A.

  Carrie Underwood

  Beach, New York, Husband

  "Sneak Preview of Glamour's". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. April 30, 2012.

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• Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Government, Medicine

  "Song: "Subterranean Homesick Blues"". 1965.

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• I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?" You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.

  Markus Zusak

  Begging You, Asking, Mouths

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.72, RH Childrens Books

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• My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

  Douglas Preston

  Jobs, Hard Work, Home

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• You want to know if we're animals? When I'm on stage with the volume rippling my body like a glass of water and thousands of people are generating heat in my direction, there's no time for thought. My basement facilities take over completely. Sure it's animal. People might like to talk about art, but look where art is, in the gutter.

  David Lee Roth

  Art, Animal, Glasses

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• The first time you buy a house you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.

  Lupe Velez

  Men, House, Looks

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• I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check. We adore chaos because we love to produce order. I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.

  M. C. Escher

  Funny, Dream, Clever

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• Mary Ocher gives me the chills, she frightens me with her feral soul.
  Her sound is of a true outsider artist, immaculately self possessed.
  Was this recorded this century? Or out of a basement that's she's been imprisoned all her
  life? Time to set her loose on the world. I'm so happy she exists. Set me free Mary!

  Karen O

  Artist, Self, Giving

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