Basements Quotes

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Matter, Lows, Unexplored

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• Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Higher, Ideals

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

  M. C. Escher

  Art, Thinking, Impossible

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• I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check.

  M. C. Escher

  Might, Upstairs, Checks

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• Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

  Norman Maclean

  Running, Time, Rain

  "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

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• There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Sports, Military

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• Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

  Norman Maclean

  Running, Fishing, Rivers

  "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

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• I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.

  Sebastian Bach

  Band, Whole

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• I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Gadgets, Shops

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• Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!

  John Piper

  Sex, Block, Kitchen

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• My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

  Ben Affleck

  Mom, Mother, Stay Strong

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• No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Cake, Laughing, Would Be

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• 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

  Should Have, People, Focus

  Commencement speech for University of California Santa Cruz students, 1996.

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• For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.

  Mitch Albom

  Book, Years, Office

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• To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Quilts

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• We see a lot of startup companies, people that have a home-based office, they've been working out of their basement for two or three years, and now their basement or kids cannot accommodate them any longer.

  Nancy Fox

  Home, Kids, Years

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• In a fight against Juggernaut and Cassidy in their spacious castle basement, Cassidy mentions the word 'tomb' to the X-Men. That's all it took to send Storm into a claustrophobic fit that leaves her in a heap on the floor for three straight issues. Imagine if he would have said 'Small Closet' or 'Size 2 Jeans.'

  Seanbaby

  Fighting, Men, Jeans

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• Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.

  Julia Child

  Drawing, People, Justice

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• You can put me in the basement or the penthouse, it doesn’t matter to me.

  Davy Jones

  Matter, Penthouses

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• Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.

  Neil Young

  Play, Clubs, Rehearsal

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• I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work.

  Geddy Lee

  Hobbies, Reminding, I Can

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• A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.

  Antonin Scalia

  Purpose, Machines, Journalistic

  "'Get over it': Justice Scalia's most memorable quotes" by Bill Mears, www.foxnews.com. February 15, 2016.

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• Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - you know there is no such thing as 'cold.' There is only less heat.

  Alton Brown

  Years, Lasts, Heat

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• 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

  Fun, Pigs, Laughing

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• Success is like a high-rise building I'm on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the basement or the parking lot but I was lucky enough to have made it to the first floor and I'm looking to make it to the penthouse.

  Justin Guarini

  Congratulations, People, Lucky

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

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