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Quotes About Underground

Rogue economics is a sort of umbrella under which we find the criminal economy, the illegal economy, but also those gray areas, gray areas where there is not a proper regulation, where there is not legislation for the economy.
~ Loretta Napoleoni
Like public surface in general, sewers are unbelievably important. They're so important that we make sure they work basically all of the time. Which is why you never think of them - that's kind of the point.
~ Pete Buttigieg
The dancers are all gone under the hill.
~ T. S. Eliot
Leave her to sleep, sliding away forever down her secret underground river, while breathing seasons spun dandelion seeds and moon phases and snowflakes above her head.
~ Tana French
the reservoir of air deep underground, the great lung of the world, the source of all our nourishment.
~ Ted Chiang
While this perhaps does not constitute air sharing in the strictest sense, there is camaraderie derived from the awareness that all our air comes from the same source, for the dispensers are but the exposed terminals of pipes extending from the reservoir of air deep underground, the great lung of the world, the source of all our nourishment.
~ Ted Chiang
it was connected, by an underground tunnel and secret passages on every floor, directly to the brewery itself—thus allowing johns who needed to remain anonymous a way to escape if the brothel were raided by the constables.
~ Neal Stephenson
In one single underground deposit alone scientists have found a huge slab of frozen water—ice that's six times the area of New England and more than 100 feet deep.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Because if the Masters of the World exist, they can only be underground: this is a truth that all sense but few dare utter. Perhaps
~ Umberto Eco
Hitler's one genuine obsession was the underground currents. He believed in the theory of the hollow earth, Hohlweltlehre.
~ Umberto Eco
Didier. Anyway, there is a man, a printer, risking his life to make tracts that we can distribute. Maybe if we can get the French to
~ Kristin Hannah
About ten meters beneath us," Yash says. "We'll be able to map its footprint, just like Stone says.
~ Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Once upon a time, chimaera descended by the thousands into a cathedral beneath the earth. And never left.
~ Laini Taylor
You're not happy to see me, then?' Jace said. 'I have to say, I'm surprised. I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cells.
~ Cassandra Clare
Underground, the stars are legend.
~ Catherine Fisher
A distant, eerie howl had risen out of the floor, from far beneath. Silent, absolutely still, she waited, and at last it came again, indefinably closer, but muffled, as if layers of stone-rooms, dungeons, cellars-were between her and it. Not human. She crouched down with her ear to the stone slabs. Somewhere down there, unguessable levels below,something prowled.
~ Catherine Fisher
Next my guide explained that we would travel to Erie on an underground high-speed vehicle called a "floater," which ran in vacuum through a tunnel, supporting itself on magnetic fields
~ Gerard K. O'Neill
In the brief respite, James tore up part of the flooring and leaped down into an underground vault or drain. Unluckily for him, he had recently caused the egress from this chamber to be walled up because his tennis balls had sometimes been lost there.
~ Gordon Donaldson
I had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the 'Flint Voice,' and so it was a, you know, underground, alternative newspaper that I edited and put out for about ten years.
~ Michael Moore
If you go into an underground train in London - probably anywhere, but chiefly in London - there's that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don't exchange many pleasantries.
~ Seamus Heaney
What, exactly, did Sjahrir do for the Republic? ... His entire underground effort can be summed up by saying that he sat quietly and safely away somewhere listening to a clandestine radio.
~ Sukarno
For the most part, metal has been underground. It's too dangerous for mom and dad and schools. It will probably always be that way.
~ Wayne Static
In the public sector, there are a million people in the health service. There ought to be a couple of dozen or more on the Labour side, who learned their trade in different parts of the health service, and the public sector, and local government. And bus drivers, and people on the Underground.
~ Dennis Skinner
My musical roots and inspiration lie not in rock n' roll or metal music, but first and foremost in classical music, balalaika, and in underground house music.
~ Varg Vikernes