It was a great place to write a novel about book burning…

When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy.…

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

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

When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and…

— John Green

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

— M. C. Escher

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

— Sharon Cameron

I like the Hotel Costes, on rue Saint Honore, a boutique hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre and the Tuileries. I love…

— Alice Temperley

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

My most vivid memory of my father centers on the day he left. It was warm, and my mother was especially short with Rhonda…

— Deval Patrick

“In the basement of Sydney's new house is a little room that is about the size and shape of a coffin.”

— Dan Chaon

After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found myself writing…

— Jimmy Chamberlin

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

“He had no idea what was wrong, but he knew something was wrong. It turned out that the heart of the fire had not…

— Daniel Kahneman

“lacking is a panic room in the basement.”

— C.M. Sutter