Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eddi Reader

I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

John Green

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 then you get the feedback. When you do work online, the moment you're finished making it, people start responding to it which is really fun and allows for a kind of community development you just can't have in novels.

Yes, it's called 'hazardous waste.' But it's paint and other materials that everyone has under the sink, in the garage, in the basement and at the work station. We're trying to get the word out that that's what we're handling, that's what we're taking from small businesses in Northeast Ohio.... That's going to our nemesis and our biggest hurdle.

Mick Ralphs

When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one.

Casey Wilson

It's certainly strange to do sketch comedy with cue cards at midnight in a skyscraper as opposed to in a basement with your friends.

People were crying - they couldn't believe that they had come so far. And the very first thing I did was to bring everybody downstairs into the basement so we could have a family prayer meeting.

Douglas Preston

My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

Jonathan Nolan

One of the things I love about working with my brother is that there's a commitment there - an unwavering commitment. From our basement in Illinois when I was three years old to Iceland on a frozen glacier with Matthew McConaughey and Matt Damon in spacesuits - there's a commitment to the pure spectacle, the pure cinema of it.

Paul Westerberg

Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.

Candice Olson

Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.

From my basement I heard an explosion and I ran and I called for my family to come downstairs. And I saw fire bursting out of the basement, so I got them as quickly as I can and I came outside and the fire started upstairs.

I don't have to throw stuff into the garbage that is perfectly good. I'm cleaning through my basement and closets and have been able to offer a lot.

I don't even know what made me start wanting to do music. It just... happened. Because I sat in my basement all the time, and music was my best friend, and I just wanted to be a part of it.

Seth Shostak

In the 19th century, if you had a basement lab, you could make major scientific discoveries in your own home. Right? Because there was all this science just lying around waiting for somebody to pick it up.

Edmund White

I think it's really interesting to talk about Foucault in one chapter and smelling poop in the basement in the next. It seems to me that life is just that complicated.

Sarah Carter

I always remind myself that the world is bigger than Hollywood, because I need to. Being Canadian and from Winnipeg, I have the spirit of a dreamer because of the cold, and being in the basement thinking of possibilities of where else I can be in the world, in a good way!

If the basement is just damp or smells a little musty, generally, a properly sized dehumidifier works just fine.

It was magical growing up in New Jersey. My sister and I would go nuts in the basement and do full theater productions. We used a humidifier as a fog machine. It was over the top.

Neil Peart

It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be able to make it true enough to the image in your head, and that's where technique and technology come in, for sure, and knowledge. It's not true and will never be true that someone who knows nothing can sit in a basement and make great music.

Deval Patrick

My most vivid memory of my father centers on the day he left. It was warm, and my mother was especially short with Rhonda and me that afternoon, which I attributed to the heat. I was oblivious to the mounting hostilities in our basement apartment.

John Franklin

I think he's been in every courthouse basement in the South,

Our officers have been urinating and defecating in the basement of Harrah's Casino, ... They have been going in stores to feed themselves.

We were sitting in the basement and we heard this deafening crash.

We just cleaned out the basement and started doing shows here.

Rick Danko

Bob wrote the song during The Basement Tapes time period; we put it on Music From Big Pink. Richard did a great job singing it in falsetto.

There's a group of maybe up to a dozen of my friends. We all go into my basement on a Friday night and put on a free-form show.

David Letterman

Put bygones behind us, ... the water under the bridge, over the dam, wherever water goes -- standing in your basement -- she's going to be here on this show and it's going to be fantastic.

Racing has been in my family. I used to see the bikes down in the basement and I always wanted to try it.

It?s a 110-year-old building and has served the town well. But very little has been done to it. The basement is wet and uncomfortable and we are truly busting at the seams.

He said the waters coming into the basement its going down the stairwells and all the windows have blown out that' the last thing I heard from him.

Joe McNally

Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.

These disclosures don't look very good when investors are already skittish about what's going on in the automotive industry. You hate to discover a leak in your basement when you're trying to sell your house.

Through the smoke I could see that it was in an isolated part of the basement in a small room.