Quotes About Underground

Apart from the brave few who went underground and fought at the risk of their lives, the French intellectuals gave the Nazis little trouble, and were morally compromised as a consequence.

Como botones de nácar que estuvieran cosidos por debajo, quizás hasta dentro de la tierra.

Amici o nemici che importanza ha? Il potere abbatte tutto. Sia gli onesti sia i malvagi finiscono per prostrarsi di fronte a un potere più grande di loro. Noi tutti moriamo e finiamo sottoterra.

All I wanted was to be part of an underground world where the sun doesn't shine, there are no serenades, and the sound of children's laughter is never, ever heard.

since if he lived up to his promise, it would mean setting the underground river on fire.

The Erinyes, who exact punishment of men underground if one swears a false oath.

brutally, like men who think they have to deal with a swindler or a madman — it depends on their nature. I have been buried under the dead; but now I am buried under the living, under papers, under facts, under the whole of society, which wants to shove me underground again!

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.

Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground.

I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground.

When we learned to play in bands, what we were covering was equal part the Velvet Underground and the Grateful Dead. That would defy the logic that somehow these things don't fit in the same musical well.

My favorite model of success is when people say, 'Nobody bought that first Velvet Underground album, but everyone who did started a band.'

I like Velvet Underground, but I was never really hardcore into them. I like them, and I like Nico, but I won't front like I'm super knowledgeable. I just never got around to it.

I have really got into watching the unsigned bands. They play mad venues like the Sugarmill in Stoke and all sorts of underground, grimy places.

I enjoy being slept on. It's like being on the verge of a cult movement. But making the underground-to-aboveground transition is cool.

On the second verse of 'Tears to Snow,' I talk about rappers and the way they view me now, rappers in the underground world who I might've know for a little bit, or they might've opened a show for me. A lot of them talk crap about me behind my back, and they'll smile in my face.

The blow to the head, the drugs, being trapped underground? Jasper Coyle knew exactly what was happening to him. He read the papers, he watched the news.

Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice to their most shameful longings and knowledge?

The tunnels comfort me, I guess, because they'te mine. They know what's inside me and they feel the way I do. Always. Like, you know, when you bomb a test but it's sunny outside? Well, that doesn't happen in the tunnels," she laughs. "They're always dark inside, like me, but inside, I'm like the tunnel—dark, winding, and twisting.

Wein, alles, was sich gekühlt besser hält, wurde in diesen Katakomben gehandelt.

not trying to be seen. They do their work underground. But quietly and without fanfare, they provide help and support and nourishment. They are happy when I thrive. Come what may, they support my soul. They hold my soul up. A tree may have many branches and many leaves, and only a few roots, yet it is the roots that are strong, resilient, and powerful.

Véremmé lettek a h?s, föld alatti vizek

What is it with you today?" says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face. Oh, you know," I say. Sun shining. Birds chirping." She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.

Fashion's recognized as a business now, but it was something that was almost underground when I started.