My mom's whole side of the family, they're all Packers…

Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

If the watchdog doesn't bark, how do you know there's a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.

— Bill Moyers

Every time I get in an elevator, the operator says the same thing to me: 'Basement?'

— Rodney Dangerfield

White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it.…

— Rob Zombie

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

— M. C. Escher

The problem is that the internet IS some kid in a basement with an opinion. The fact that David Bowie and Elton John told…

— Page Hamilton

I love getting into the basement of a courthouse, and all the dusty records - all that stuff makes me really happy.

— Sharon Cameron

My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life…

— Dana Spiotta

SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of…

— Anonymous

All the green-screen stuff - all the special effects stuff - I shot right there in my house, in the basement in my theater…

— Vickie Winans

We made basement practice songs.To have them presented in such a huge fashion today - like at Primavera, where it's thousands of people in…

— David Pajo

After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things and there…

— Edward Hirsch

The massive corruption common in so many developing countries would be quite impossible if Western countries did not provide convenient opportunities to ship ill-gotten…

— Thomas Pogge

Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore.

— Francoise Giroud

No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank…

— Chuck Palahniuk