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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 (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.72, RH Childrens Books
  • My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

    Growing Up   Dad   Player  
    "Knowing Lindi Ortega By Her 'Little Red Boots'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 4, 2011.
  • We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri.

  • I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting.

    Home   Drawing   Painting  
  • The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.

    Business   Crazy   Aunt  
    Ross Perot (1992). “United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country”
  • I bought a gun safe with velvet shelves and a built-in dehumidifier to house the hundreds of original [Barbara] Stanwyck letters I amassed that I first kept in the lettuce crisper of a refrigerator in my basement.

    Gun   House   Velvet  
    Source: www.classicmoviehub.com
  • It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on a play. I mean, any play, anywhere - on Broadway or the Bowery or in a church basement.

    Mean   Play   Church  
  • I'm constantly recording and playing down in the basement, and my voice is starting to sound really good. There's cracks and scratches in my voice that have been there since I was 19. It hasn't changed that much.

    Voice   Sound   Cracks  
    Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.
  • Okay, Shane," Agnes said as Brenda's clock gonged midnight. "I got Joey in the kitchen, a cop in the front hall, a dead body in the basement, and you in my bedroom. Where do you want to start?

    Kitchen   Midnight   Body  
    Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer (2008). “Agnes and the Hitman”, p.25, Macmillan
  • I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me

    Dog   Sea   Mermaid  
    Emily Dickinson, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1994). “Emily Dickinson”, p.11, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
  • People think living in your parents' basement until you're twenty-nine is lame. But what they don't realize is that while you're there, you save money on rent, food, and dates.

    Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”
  • 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.

  • America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

    Art   America   Humanity  
  • If you were to sell your character, would you get full retail or would it go for a bargain-basement price?

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

    Demon   Mets   Basements  
    Source: www.mirror.co.uk
  • An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room too small for his workroom as these conditions imply low rental.

    Dark   Hull House   Rooms  
    Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.65, Courier Corporation
  • 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 (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.604, Scholastic Inc.
  • I’m not going to pick her up and carry her screaming to the basement,” Trent said. “It’s a workday. Besides, she has a crutch.” “Crutch or no, she’s hurt!” Ceri protested. “I mean,” Trent said intently, “she can hit me with it if I do something she doesn’t like.

    Hurt   Mean   Crutches  
  • Texas is dicktown. No basement in the alamo. I didnt capitalize that on purpose.

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

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

    Band   Basements   Whole  
  • I finished VCA at the height of the last big recession in the early 90s, and seeing that I was not going to be able to join one of the dwindling number of commercial galleries, I started an ARI called the Basement Project which ran for three years. Things came a little at a time and all of a sudden it's 20 years later and I'm still making art, which is really all I ever wanted to do.

    Art   Years   Numbers  
    The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.
  • Hip-hop has always been chronologically misunderstood. Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement. If hip-hop was a cake, all I can tell you is the eggs, the flour, the sugar, the vanilla - the ingredient years.

    Years   Cake   Eggs  
    "Grandmaster Flash breaks down Netflix’s new series 'The Get Down'". Interview with Alan Light, www.motherjones.com. July 2016.
  • 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,.

  • Sadly, as with so much about history's heroes, it's the spotting of potential fame that's the difficulty, whether it's publishing their poems, hanging their paintings, or buying their old underwear. Think of the great men whose lives passed in penury and hacking coughs due to public unawareness that their littlest possession would end up at Sothebys or the basement at Fort Knox.

    Hero   Men   Thinking  
    Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.118, Canongate Books
  • 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.

    Wise   Hands   Skills  
    Nora Roberts (2012). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.1079, Penguin
  • During the war an Italian girl saved my life. She hid me in her basement in Cleveland.

    Funny   Girl   War  
  • 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.

    Funny   Dream   Clever  
  • 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 (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books
  • Denial is pushing something out of your awareness. Anything you hide in the basement has a way of burrowing under the house and showing up on the front lawn.

    House   Denial   Way  
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