Basement Quotes
169 quotes by 150 authors
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Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks…
— Norman Maclean
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The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was not a washroom. They were not sent there…
— Markus Zusak
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Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in…
— Markus Zusak
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I’ve gotta get out of the basement. I’ve gotta see the world. I’ve gotta make a difference
— Gerard Way
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It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open…
— Haruki Murakami
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No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact,…
— Steven Brust
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There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed…
— Tom Robbins
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Here is another marvy glimpse into the gothic basement that I call my mind.
— Louise Rennison
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In the basement of 33 Himmel Street, Max Vandenburg could feel the fists of an entire nation. One by one they climbed into the ring…
— Markus Zusak
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For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the…
— Markus Zusak
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A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.
— Neal Stephenson
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I'm so not interesting in having to try and make something out of foil." What, you didn't like the poncho with wraparound leggings?" It was…
— Elizabeth Scott
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I told him I had always kept my inner Martha Stewart chained in the basement, but for his sake I would set her loose.†~…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.
— Bob Dylan
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I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?" You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in…
— Markus Zusak
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How could you let him do this? (Shahara) I know you’re not going to pin this on me, Shay. I didn’t raise the embryo. You…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I felt like the blonde in every horror movie who hears a noise in the basement and goes to investigate alone. Sometimes you smell the…
— Ann Aguirre
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She got under the covers and put her arms around the bag. She could smell Tibby. It used to be she couldn't smell Tibby's smell…
— Ann Brashares
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I was trying to decide if you still had free will as a wolf. If I was a terrible person for planning to drug my…
— Maggie Stiefvater
Who Wrote These Basement Quotes
150 authors contributed a total of 169 Basement Quotes, led by these top contributors: