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Quotes About Underground

Ha-ha, joke. Gussy, it achieves the same effect without using any dope at all. Listen: a tickler reminds you of your duties and opportunities—your chances for happiness and success! What's the obvious next step?" "Throw it out the window. By the way, how do you do that when you're underground?
~ Fritz Leiber
Remember, they lived in the drainpipes, too.
~ Ruskin Bond
We have a large circle—all of them anti-Hitler," one participant told Inge. "And each of these friends has his own separate circle which is anti-Hitler, and so on and so forth: a great underground network against Hitler. If only someone could get them to act collectively.
~ Russell Freedman
Below me, in the foundations of the house, I could hear the clothes I'd buried there growing themselves a body.
~ Margaret Atwood
I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.
~ John Ashbery
There are many resistance groups, such as Free Netherlands, that forge identity cards, provide financial support to those in hiding, organize hiding places and find work for young Christians who go underground. It's amazing how much these generous and unselfish people do, risking their own lives to help and save others.
~ Anne Frank
Now, when a vampire goes underground as we call it—when he ceases to drink blood and he just lies in the earth—he soon becomes too weak to resurrect himself, and what follows is a dream state.
~ Anne Rice
cement in bold relief,—far underground. I lean my elbows on the table, and the lamp lights brightly the newspapers I am fool enough to re-read, and the absurd books.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
An aboveground political organization can't wage guerrilla war anymore than an underground army can do aboveground political work. Although the two must work together, they must have completely separate structures, and any links between the two must remain secret.
~ Assata Shakur
I read about guerrilla warfare and clandestine struggle without having the faintest idea that one day i would go underground. It's kind of funny when i think about it, because reading all that stuff probably has saved my life a million times.
~ Assata Shakur
No, of course not.... Why, you love him! Your fear, your terror, all of that is just love and love of the most exquisite kind, the kind which people do not admit even to themselves. The kind that gives you a thrill, when you think of it.... Picture it: a man who lives in a palace underground! - Raoul
~ Gaston Leroux
I have always been sure that if England were ever occupied its people would find the organization of underground cells an almost effortless means of self-expression.
~ Geoffrey Household
I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
~ Bahman Ghobadi
A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.
~ Travie McCoy
Microbes. Bacteria. Worms underground that mingle our parts with everything. It's generous." He locks his fingers in hers. "And infinite." Mr. Bell squares his face to hers. "If you can get over the dreaded finite.
~ Samantha Hunt
What do you think?" "No way. Dirt to dirt. One Life to Live." Ruth winces. "Why? What's wrong with that?" he asks. "Microbes. Bacteria. Worms underground that mingle our parts with everything. It's generous." He locks his fingers in hers. "And infinite." Mr. Bell squares his face to hers. "If you can get over the dreaded finite.
~ Samantha Hunt
A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.
~ Samuel Butler
When drum'n'bass happened, when the two-step/garage thing happened, there was a chart smash every week; it operated on the underground and the pinnacle of pop mainstream at the same time.
~ Kieran Hebden
I started out playing in clubs. I always like existing under ground and over ground at the same time.
~ Lady Gaga
The widespread shamanistic notion of a tiered cosmology – the level on which people live and spirit realms below and above – probably derives from certain universal experiences of altered states. These include sensations, on the one hand, of rising up and flying, and, on the other, of entering a vortex and passing underground and through water.
~ John R. Hinnells
When truth is buried underground it grows, it chokes, it gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.
~ Émile Zola
Fine, but if and when the zombies team up with the mummies to take over the world, you can't live in my underground bunker.
~ Emily Cale
So still is Love he hears the farthest sound: The footfall of the seasons in their round, The soft etheric swish of the rushing spheres, The murmur of the mute things underground.
~ barker elsa iii
Sewer rats are really gross.
~ Finn Wolfhard