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Quotes About Underneath

Honest, Blake, take no notice," Joe said. "He's a fart on the surface, but scratch underneath and he can sometimes smell a bit better.
~ Keith Gray
In uplifting, get underneath.
~ George Ade
two by six Joyce below the floor boards.
~ Chet Cunningham
I'm going to draw on every grave in the cemetery he continued. Why do you draw them? I asked. Why a skull and crossbones? Reminds you what's underneath, don't it? It's all bones down there, whatever you may put on the grave.
~ Tracy Chevalier
Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.
~ Caroline Knapp
Men are beasts, selfish and brutal. However gentle the words, there are always darker motives underneath.
~ George R.R. Martin
In uplifting, get underneath.
~ George Ade
Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description. You see whether someone is strong or weak, principled or apathetic, heroic or villainous. (J.R. on writing the BDB series)
~ J.R. Ward
Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Listen closely: You'll hear their feet Beating out and beating out a - You think It's a happy beat? Listen to it closely: Ain't you heard something underneath like a - What did I say? Sure, I'm happy! Take it away! Dream Boogie Hey, pop! Re-bop! Mop! Y-e-a-h!
~ Langston Hughes
There seemed to be more chatter—in that curiously measured and vehement language, which sometimes reminds me of stiffening egg white and sometimes of stringed instruments but always of the underside and aftermath of passion.
~ James Baldwin
I hold beneath pale green.
~ James Frey
Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.
~ Chris Lowe
I come from the underground, from the ground.
~ Dizzee Rascal
I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.
~ Brene Brown
Social media makes it possible to go underneath a story, which sometimes abruptly ends.
~ Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
I think one thing with Sweden is that in some way the Swedish society is a very good society, almost perfect on the surface. That is something that makes the writers forced to see what is underneath the surface, because it's always something underneath the surface, of course.
~ Alexander Ahndoril
For the rest of my life, my testosterone levels will remain underneath women who were born with female anatomy. There's no advantage I could ever get by not taking estrogen. Which I'm not doing, I'm just saying that's a fact, so people should realize that. Which, I don't think most people understand.
~ Fallon Fox
I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction: 'Is this random, or is there something working underneath?'
~ Lisa Tuttle
On the surface, 'Book of Mormon' is extremely irreverent, but underneath, there's a great sweetness and a very positive message.
~ Stephen Schwartz
The piano is an instrument that can easily sound overly thick, and I love to think that I can work with textures - particularly the inner textures inside the melody or the bass line. There is an analogy there with painting; I love paintings where you see colour underneath the colour and, underneath that, more texture and shape.
~ Stephen Hough
We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.
~ Brad Dourif
I like the songs to appear very simple and to flow by without any kind of hiccup, but there has to be this impression of other currents underneath. Like if the songs aren't, on some level, multidimensional, we lose interest in them.
~ Gillian Welch
A lot of the dysfunction that exists underneath the surface of a lot of big business corporations is really profound.
~ Adrian Pasdar
Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
~ Iris Chang