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Quotes About Underground

The same year Qutb was hanged, Zawahiri helped to form an underground militant cell dedicated to replacing the secular Egyptian government with an Islamic one. He was fifteen years old.
~ Lawrence Wright
To an underground room, no doubt. It was closed, but like all storm doors it would open outward. So the wind could never blow it in.
~ Lee Child
the mural, there were painted lines for the Underground, like scars stretched across the skin of the infected nation. There were wounds and then there were wounds.
~ Libba Bray
He put a hand to the cool, painted stones bearing witness to so many names, so many histories. In the mural, there were painted lines for the Underground, like scars stretched across the skin of the infected nation. There were wounds and then there were wounds. Some were so great Memphis had no idea how they could ever be healed.
~ Libba Bray
Underground—which had been
~ Lincoln Child
Do you really think it's all gone away? Mental illness has just moved underground, into the homeless shelters and the city parks. Out of sight, out of mind for the taxpayers. It's a crying shame.
~ Lisa Gardner
HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.
~ Mathieu Kassovitz
There's nothing routine about 'Boardwalk Empire.' It's like being in some secret society where they call you up and tell you where to go: 'Meet us at the corner of such and so.'
~ Michael Shannon
Let's go back to the lines at the end of "In Praise of Limestone": "What I hear is the sound of underground streams / What I see is a limestone landscape." Close your eyes and try to imagine the shape of these lines. I see a falling, a descent, a softening, with the gentlest of landings at the end. And I feel resolution, calmness, and forgiveness.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
It is better to exist unknow to the law.--Irish Proverb
~ Dorien Kelly
A Robbins Urban TBM 250. TBM stands for Tunnel Boring Machine.
~ Douglas E. Richards
In 1945, the Russians had laid siege to Berlin, and Hitler had been found dead inside an underground command center at his Berlin headquarters, having taken his own life.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Hagen Koch: 'There was no other transport. People on bikes could evade checkpoints, they could have secret meetings
~ Anna Funder
I'm on a weird quest to be sort of famous, like an indie movie star that only the hip people like to chat about.....I want to be underground famous," she wrote on Grrl.com, before working on her Sith promotions - she's genuinely on "our side.
~ Anne Elizabeth Moore
Black markets exist any time there is a profit to be made.
~ Richard N. Haass
If there's any profit to be had in Nashville-Underground, it's very long term. We're not about money, which gives us an edge over the labels.
~ Lari White
Sorrow is long when love has vanished underground.
~ Euripides
I've had some really, really wild fun nights in Vegas. I ended up on stage once with this band, The Digital Underground, doing the Humpty Dance.
~ Ashton Kutcher
Q: What is a Soviet trio? A: A quartet returning from an overseas tour. —1970s underground Soviet humor
~ Robert Wallace
If he is willing to hide an illegal rhinoceros there is no question he would hide cocaine anywhere.
~ Roberto Escobar
restaurants. Bailey liked New York City better before its Disney-fication, when it was still messy and dangerous, full of style, outrage, art, underground clubs. When you might easily get mugged on the Bowery, or offered drugs on Tenth Street, or propositioned in the Meatpacking District. Now things were homogenized, gentrified. Safer, prettier, Instagrammable. Better, some would no doubt say. But not real, somehow. Somehow packaged and sold. The idea of New York City, the dream of it.
~ Lisa Unger
Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? From a technical perspective.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Ivan had never thought of his nightmares as being insufficiently imaginative, before tonight. Dark, wet, constricted, underground, check. How had he left out biohazards? After all that, the frigging unexploded bomb just seemed a . . . a redundant redundancy. And the stray corpse a mere decoration. How did I get into this mess? Miles isn't even here.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
To be a smuggler in Britain was to be in good company, for
~ Louis L'Amour