This is Louisiana, we don't have basements because of the…

“That’s ridiculous, Roland,” Mom says. “This is Louisiana, we don’t have basements because of the water level.”

— Leah Rae Miller

You can see how an increase in the water level would wipe out hundreds of thousands of people's homes.

— Andrew Mitchell

Half of Louisiana is under water and the other half is under indictment.

— Billy Tauzin

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Sharon Cameron

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

— M. C. Escher

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

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

— Rodney Dangerfield

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

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