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The abuser knows where you work. Even if a woman goes underground at night, the abuser knows where to find her during the day.
— Gordon Campbell
I like the word 'underground' ... 'independent' carries a stigma of whininess. 'Underground' means a good time.
— John Waters
The Plastic People of the Universe played 'Venus in Furs' from Velvet Underground, and I knew everything was basically okay.
— Tom Stoppard
Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.
— Bahman Ghobadi
I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.
— Buzz Osborne
This was the Goblin King. The abductor of maidens, the punisher of misdeeds, the Lord of Mischief and the Underground.
— S. Jae-Jones
( ... ) that the creature I loved was lying somewhere in a hole underground, to all intents and purposes dead until dark.
— Charlaine Harris
Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground.
— William James
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
— Thomas Carlyle
I have a huge underground following on the web.
— John McAfee
The Underground Peasant Movement adopted the slogan of "As little, as late, and as bad as possible," and set about sabotaging deliveries
— Diane Ackerman
Other humans gaze at the sky, but I say unto you, the only way through the world is to pass through the underground.
— Rawi Hage
So it's like the underground world no longer exists economically cause they're not giving money back to their supporting artists.
— Kool Keith
Generally speaking, moving water is the most dangerous thing you can encounter underground.
— William Stone
People didn't get to see how other towns interpreted the underground ethos, and so they developed their own unique versions of it.
— Michael Azerrad
On one end there was who you were before you went underground, and on the other end a new person steps out into the light.
— Colson Whitehead
We are not meant to spend the rest of our lives underground. We need to go home and tell a strange story that no one will believe.
— Courtney M. Privett
Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates. It is well known that gold lies hidden underground.
— Nabeshima Naoshige
I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
— Young Buck
But this time of the year she was in her vaults, underground, and here she resided alone, spending most of her life in darkness, like a tongue
— Bruce Robinson
Taking people on a journey is the fundamental element of underground dance music. I don't sell records.
— Seth Troxler
There is a city beneath the streets
— Robert E. Sullivan Jr.
I like to go on YouTube to see the underground sounds, what the kids are listening to, and kind of gauge my music around that.
— Missy Elliot
They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.
— Francis Bacon
The initial trauma of a young child may go underground but it will return to haunt us.
— James Garbarino
Underground, the stars are legend.
— Catherine Fisher
To fall in love twice, with the same person, you need to grow another heart. That's all I do in my secret underground laboratory at night...
— Will Advise
But a man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end of it.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.
— Martin Gore
The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home.
— Anthony Braxton
No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.
— Ezra Koenig
I was in the underground until I left Germany.
— Klaus Fuchs
I've always been ahead of the curve when it came to trying new stuff in the underground scene.
— Kid Cudi
'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'.
— John Lennon
There are so many things that kept forcing metal back down to the underground. It survives everywhere on the planet.
— David Pajo
It is the Other whom one must love as oneself if one does not desire to idolize and hate the Other in the depths of the underground.
— Rene Girard
London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases ... that was very interesting.
— Ruth Rendell
I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
— Harriet Tubman
I'm the diamond in the dirt, that ain't been found. I'm the underground king and I ain't been crowned.
— Curtis Jackson
My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.
— Veruschka Von Lehndorff
The Oberlin/Cleveland area is where the underground railroad came out, so it's an interesting historical place. I love Ohio and really loved Oberlin.
— Isabel Gillies
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
How big can you be if just the underground niggas know you? You can't buy your mom a house when you just an underground celebrity.
— J. Cole
I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It's not an underground tool for me. It's my whole life.
— Lady Gaga
Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s.
— Glenn Danzig
The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth of the land.
— Henry David Thoreau
This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.
— Walker Percy
I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.
— Bahman Ghobadi
I grew up in the '90s. I listened to a lot of The Clash, Velvet Underground and Roxy Music. I wasn't into Boyzone, or anything.
— Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Punk rock, when I was a part of it, was called 'the underground.' There was something very attractive in all the hidden places, the hidden histories.
— Mary Harron
The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.
— Cornel West
You took the Alkaholik challenge, and lost your balance
You underground, we under water drinkin liquid by the gallons — Xzibit
You underground, we under water drinkin liquid by the gallons — Xzibit
Hard time adjusting to being underground so much. But after the surreal encounter with the
— Suzanne Collins
What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.
— Andrew Cuomo
they knew also that the Communist underground was directed from Moscow and served chiefly as an espionage source for the Russians.*
— William L. Shirer
I'm now asking an idle question of my own: which is better
cheap happiness, or lofty suffering? Well, which is better? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
cheap happiness, or lofty suffering? Well, which is better? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.
— J.K. Rowling
What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
— Gavin Bryars
In spiritually arid centuries, the only man to realize that the century is dying from thirst is the man who still harnesses an underground spring.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
If you would keep your soul
From spotted sight or sound,
Live like the velvet mole;
Go burrow underground. — Elinor Wylie
From spotted sight or sound,
Live like the velvet mole;
Go burrow underground. — Elinor Wylie
The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence
— Francisco Varela
London created the Underground, and the Underground created London.
— John Lanchester
I resented the feeling that God was constantly telling me to work on the foundation, because foundation building is very unsexy, underground work.
— Jonathan Martin
I formed a band called Atomic Rooster. The Atomic Rooster was sort of an underground cult band, sort of psychedelic. We did very well.
— Carl Palmer
If this is airing in the future and no one knows who Karl Rove is - he's the reason you all live underground.
— Eugene Mirman
I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.
— Richard Wurmbrand
Hell is a conspiracy, and the first requirement of a conspiracy is that it remain underground.
— Richard F. Lovelace
He frowned. "Naked baby photos should be outlawed."
She closed the photo album. "So tell me, do you still have those cute dimples on your ass? — Kait Ballenger
She closed the photo album. "So tell me, do you still have those cute dimples on your ass? — Kait Ballenger
He had drowned the boy underground with his own hands, but his twisted mind still had the nerve to feel grief over the loss. How horrifying.
— Otsuichi
Stay away from the underground lake I implore,
The Siren will see you are heard of no more. — E.A. Bucchianeri
The Siren will see you are heard of no more. — E.A. Bucchianeri
Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad.
— W.E.B. Du Bois
Girl they love me like I'm Prince, like the new kid with the crown. Bunch of underground kings, thought you knew how we get down.
— Drake
Chernobyl is like the war of all wars. There's nowhere to hide. Not underground, not underwater, not in the air.
— Svetlana Alexievich
Urban legend has it that Area 51 is connected by underground tunnels and trains to other secret facilities around the country.
— Annie Jacobsen
No prize , however great can justify an ounce of self deception or a small departure of the ugly facts. ( Notes from Underground)
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.
— Guillermo Del Toro
As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical.
— Vladimir Sorokin
Oh, goody," Chas whispered. "I hate going to the doctor. I'd rather be back underground in the water playing Ophelia.
— Lia Habel
How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?
— Virginia Woolf
A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.
— Henry S. F. Cooper
This would be something never before seen in the history of the universe: an underground shooting star.
— Randall Munroe
The American indie underground made music for like-minded people who thought for themselves. Thinking for yourself is intrinsically subversive.
— Michael Azerrad
Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.
— G.K. Chesterton
As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too.
— Ric Ocasek
I think that in America there is a new movement of underground movies that wants to kick the ass of independent films that they think whine too much.
— John Waters