Basement Quote by Creative Publishing International

“You think you've reached the bottom. Then you find out the bottom has a basement.”

— Leonard Pitts Jr

“He’s filling empty space with the substance of our lives, confessions of his bellybottom strain, remembrance of ideas, rehashes of old blowing.”

— Jack Kerouac

“so each day brought a further descent into the depths of concrete existence and a further ascent toward the heights of abstraction.”

— Jean d'Ormesson

“Man should have a solid foundation under his feet, and a roof over his mouth.”

— Jarod Kintz

“The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.”

— René Descartes

“taking on projects that were beyond his current comfort zone;”

— Cal Newport

“As I repeatedly went forth with him and began to understand the ignorance and contradictions and language difficulties with which he contended, and the…

— Joseph O'Neill

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

— J.K. Rowling

“lacking is a panic room in the basement.”

— C.M. Sutter

“The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.”

— Ross McDonald

“Laying a good foundation is important, but the fact remains that we don’t live in the foundation; we live in the house built upon…

— Norman L. Geisler

“He had written books of a lifetime, on the airs of vast rooms in vast buildings, and had it all fly out the vents.”

— Ray Bradbury