Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in…

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