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Quotes About Underground

When robbery is done in open daylight by sanction of the law, as it is done today, then any act of honor or restitution has to be hidden underground.
~ Ayn Rand
Some within the government and some former revolutionaries had finally realized that there was no way the Islamic regime could make us intellectuals vanish. In forcing us underground, it had also made us more appealing, more dangerous and, in a strange way, more powerful. It had made us scarce and, because of this, also in demand.
~ Azar Nafisi
The Pueblo story is that everyone started out underground. People and animals, everything. And then the badger dug a hole and let everybody out. They climbed out the hole and from then on they lived on top of the ground. When they die they go back under. […] 'I always try to think of it that way,' he said, after a minute. "He had a big adventure up here, and then went home.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The walls flickered in the candlelight. The room felt close and warm, like an underground sanctuary.
~ Barry Eisler
Healing is a kind of revolt...all successful revolts begin in secret.
~ Stephen King
So, I created these creatures called The Frightened Ones which in the film you see do have mask like kind of heads and they run beneath the ground to hide. Which is what in fact we did during the war.
~ Gerald Scarfe
Nos ancêtres avaient un mot pour qualifier ces ennemis. Ils les nommaient les forces chtoniennes. Les insectes représentent les forces chtoniennes, c'est-à-dire tout ce qui est bas, rampant, souterrain, caché, imprévisible !
~ Bernard Werber
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
With 'Underground,' we see that the wounds that we all, as a nation, inflicted upon our brothers and sisters during slavery have not been healed.
~ Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Those who have not seen wrestling before have probably tuned in to 'Lucha Underground' and go, 'Whoa! This is a TV series turned into wrestling.'
~ Rey Mysterio
Above, the cars roar past, oblivious to what is below them.
~ Harlan Coben
When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'
~ Chuck Palahniuk
As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,I've got a little list—I've got a little list.Of society offenders who might well be underground,And who never would be missed—who never would be missed.
~ Sir William S. Gilbert
The vinedresser does a curious thing with the rotten fruit. He turns it back into the soil and there, underground, by some spectacular organic miracle of nature, it fertilizes a future harvest.
~ Beth Moore
When I was doing indie films, it wasn't cool and hip.
~ Rosanna Arquette
It was the kind of horse they have in mines—he must have worked underground somewhere because his eyes were so beautiful, the kind I would se in stokers and people who worked in artificial light all day or in the light of safety lamps and emerged from the pit or the furnace room to look up at the beautiful sky because to such eyes all skies are beautiful.
~ Bohumil Hrabal
It was the kind of horse they have in mines—he must have worked underground somewhere because his eyes were so beautiful, the kind I would see in stokers and people who worked in artificial light all day or in the light of safety lamps and emerged from the pit or the furnace room to look up at the beautiful sky because to such eyes all skies are beautiful.
~ Bohumil Hrabal
key fob. You enter through the door and take the steps down a level to an underground passage. The passage leads to an elevator under a high-rise on Forty-Ninth Street near Madison Avenue. The elevator only stops on the eighth floor. At this point it takes an eye scan. If your eye doesn't
~ Harlan Coben
It felt like he'd opened the lid to invite me, personally, to the world underground. No one else, just me.
~ Haruki Murakami
I've come to think of Dunnett as the literary equivalent of the Velvet Underground; Not many people bought the books, but everyone who did wrote a novel.
~ Alaya Dawn Johnson
Competition is always good, but I truly believe that 'Lucha Underground' has nothing to do with WWE or their programming. We are completely different, you know. And, in a way, we have more to offer.
~ Rey Mysterio
Somehow there is a certain honesty underground, a certain truth.
~ Christophe Agou
If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.The Brothers KaramazovMitya (Dmitri) to Aloysha who visits him in prison, Book XI - Ivan, Chapter 4 - A Hymn and a Secret.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
When something is so small and so underground, it involves everybody—not just record store owners but club owners, magazines, bands. It was in everybody's interest to cooperate.
~ Michael Azerrad