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

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;…

— M. C. Escher

I wrote a best-selling book, and if you don't believe me, you can come into my basement; I'll show you every copy.

— Anthony Scaramucci

“Beckett, don't make me ask you to come upstairs and check in the closets. She laid her hands on his cheeks. Just come upstairs.”

— Nora Roberts

I thought the only way you can get into things is... through the basement... exactly where my studio was ... I could creep upstairs…

— Paula Rego

For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a…

— Karl Marlantes

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

My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

— Lindi Ortega

Being Canadian and from Winnipeg, I have the spirit of a dreamer because of the cold, and being in the basement thinking of possibilities…

— Sarah Carter

Just like every kid who comes into show business on some level, I used to put shows on in my basement. I even started…

— Don Scardino

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.…

— Joe Mande

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

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

— Sharon Cameron

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

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