Basements Quotes - Page 5

• I told him I had always kept my inner Martha Stewart chained in the basement, but for his sake I would set her loose.” ~ Haven Travis

  Lisa Kleypas

  Sake, Havens, Chained

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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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• I jerked my chin toward Frost’s body. ‘All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.’ Hao said, “Life is not safe. A man might spend his whole time on earth staying safe in a basement, and in the end, he still dies like everyone else.” Half-naked, covered with the same filth we all were, he still gave the impression of being in control of himself and his environment.

  Patricia Briggs

  Men, Said Life, Evil

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• There was still plenty of water in the basement, and I felt it soaking me from the knees on down. If someone wanted to torture me until I told them a critical piece of information, all they would have to do is get my socks wet. It feels terrible.

  Daniel Handler

  Water, Pieces, Knees

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• The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Truth, Church, Bombs

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• This guy, when I met him he was 47 years old, he'd just come out of a divorce and he was, you know, very desirable. He had every Cosmo cover girl and undercover girl. They were just coming out of his ears. Baking cakes on his doorstep, one in the back door, one on the roof, one waiting in the basement, another in the elevator. So I know I have to keep an eye on him.

  Pia Zadora

  Girl, Divorce, Eye

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• Watch how the propaganda unfolds once the bombing is over and the Americans are running Baghdad and their spin machine. There will be the discovery of Saddam's secret arsenal, probably in the basement of one his palaces.

  John Pilger

  Running, Discovery, Secret

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• Basement smells bad. Look for cat poops, change litter.

  Martha Stewart

  Funny Valentines Day, Cat, Smell

  Martha Stewart (2005). “The World According to Martha”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• 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

  Home, Giving, Would Be

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• I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.

  Gillian Flynn

  Despair, Degrees, Bottles

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.49, Broadway Books

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• SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.

  Patrick Califia

  Art, Clothes, Sms

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• The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the poor and stinking of sewage and trash. But there are worse parts - squatter areas where people live under cardboard, in shipping crates, behind tacked-up newspapers. Dad would march you straight to the basement with a hairbrush in his hand if he caught you keeping your hamster cage like this.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Dad, Real, Hands

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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• Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister - corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear. The rest of the time everybody assumes that they are hard at work somewhere down in the sub-basement, keeping those foundations in good repair. Nobody much cares what brand of intellectual duct tape is being used.

  Richard Rorty

  Civilization, Intellectual, Foundation

  "Philosophical Convictions". The Nation, June 14, 2004.

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

  Alan Guth

  Safe, Universe

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• If economic catastrophe does come, will it be a time that draws Christians together to share every resource we have, or will it drive us apart to hide in our own basements or mountain retreats, guarding at gunpoint our private stores from others? If we faithfully use our assets for his kingdom now, rather than hoarding them, can't we trust our faithful God to provide for us then?

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, Faithful, Together

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.517, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I have no patience with people who want to tell me what's wrong. I only want to hear from the person who first tells me the solution and then fills me in on the problem. I don't want to hear that your basement is flooded. I want to hear that you've found the number to the cleanup company. Then tell me why you're calling them.

  Earl G. Graves, Sr.

  Leadership, Numbers, People

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• They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income... Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.

  Ann Romney

  Jobs, Years, Byu

  "Mitt Romney: ‘95% Of Life Is Set Up For You If You’re Born In This Country’" by Ryan Grim, Arthur Delaney, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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• My first time performing was in the black box theater of my high school's basement as a member of 'Clownaz,' the school's improv team. We charged money for tickets, saying the proceeds went to our school's recycling program. Then, immediately after the show, we divided up all the money and kept it.

  Joe Mande

  Team, School, Black

  "10 Comics to Watch: Joe Mande Q&A". Interview with Daniel Lehman, www.backstage.com. July 9, 2012.

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• One of the great truths of Scientology is that increased awareness is the only factor which offers any road out. That is an awfully simple truth, but you'll find out that people don't know that. They think that less awareness is the road out - and that is the road down into the basement.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Simple, Thinking, People

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