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The underground appeared in this novel as the failure and reversal of Christianity. — Rene Girard

Underground is underground, commercial is commercial. There's market for both, and both get money. — U-God

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground. — Richard Pryor

Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents. — Bahman Ghobadi

You shouldn't judge someone until you've walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomfortable shoes — Ally Carter

I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people. — Buzz Osborne

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground. — Francis Bacon

It's hard to go underground when you weigh 400 pounds, Marcus. That's why they'll have to bury you in a piano case. — Jem Fox

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

Sorrow is long
when love has vanished underground. — Euripides

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

I have a huge underground following on the web. — John McAfee

Manhattan is full of ghosts most of which confront you late at night while underground — Donal O'Callaghan

There is nothing I like more than pure underground music — Kurt Cobain

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

I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cell. (Jace) — Cassandra Clare

Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band. — Brian Eno

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

There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really. — Caitlyn Jenner

There is a city beneath the streets — Robert E. Sullivan Jr.

Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground. — Euripides

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

There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

My need for love had gone underground, like a canny toothache. — Alice Munro

A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground. — Henry S. F. Cooper

Marge, when I join an underground cult I expect a little support from my family. — Homer

A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics. — Travie McCoy

How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling? — Virginia Woolf

The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering. — Ian MacKaye

This would be something never before seen in the history of the universe: an underground shooting star. — Randall Munroe

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. — Diane Wakoski

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

To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground. — Anais Nin

As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too. — Ric Ocasek

People who brag of their ancestors are like root vegetables. All their importance is underground. — Winston Graham

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

I was in the underground until I left Germany. — Klaus Fuchs

As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical. — Vladimir Sorokin

Good music often starts in underground culture and then comes to the surface. — Felix Buxton

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

We're in an underground vault, and here's my first order: You're going to do everything I tell you to do. — Jettie Necole

Hip-hop is like underground. I don't know if hip-hop exists anymore. I don't know if it does. — Theophilus London

Stay away from the underground lake I implore,
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

I've always been ahead of the curve when it came to trying new stuff in the underground scene. — Kid Cudi

I loved history, any kind of history, and even better if it was hidden, secret, or underground. — April White

Chernobyl is like the war of all wars. There's nowhere to hide. Not underground, not underwater, not in the air. — Svetlana Alexievich

Anthony was calm as an underground river. Father Oke was a volcano ready to erupt. — Nnedi Okorafor

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

Night climbs its long underground staircase.
It recalls what it has to tell us. — Karen Solie

Coincidence means only a connection that's not seen. Roots meet underground. — Charlotte Armstrong

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

Oh, goody," Chas whispered. "I hate going to the doctor. I'd rather be back underground in the water playing Ophelia. — Lia Habel

I never tried to be Jay Z or Big Poppa,
I'm underground like them dead children buried in Gaza — Immortal Technique

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

The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence — Francisco Varela

Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur — Axwell

London created the Underground, and the Underground created London. — John Lanchester

Underground, as Scarlet suggested." "You're not a mole," said Scarlet. "You can't just go underground. Where will you go? What will — Marissa Meyer

I am a sick man ... I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do. — Zach Galifianakis

Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order. — Albert Einstein

I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream. — John Ashbery

I'm very underground. — Eric Bogosian

If you would keep your soul
From spotted sight or sound,
Live like the velvet mole;
Go burrow underground. — Elinor Wylie

God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop. — Meister Eckhart

As big as Metallica are, they're still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they're still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It's still underground. — Scott Ian

Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music. — Ice Cube

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

Where were you when my heart was breaking? Will you scream out my name when I am dead and gone? — Terence Jackson

Oh, Hello. I'm Eugene Mirman, and I'm here to introduce my special. It's called An Evening of Comedy in a Fake Underground Laboratory. — Eugene Mirman

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

Somehow there is a certain honesty underground, a certain truth, — Christophe Agou

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band — Brian Eno

We bury our seeds and wait,
Winter blocks the road,
Flowers are taken prisoner underground,
But then green justice tenders a spear — Rumi

Grover shuddered. "Satyrs hate going underground. No searcher would ever try going in that place. No flowers. No sunshine. No coffee shops! — Rick Riordan

I don't think anything's underground anymore. And I think that's a good thing. Everything is up for grabs. — Colin Greenwood

And with love one can live even without happiness. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is a lot of underground type of fighting going on and some of it is not safe, it's pretty brutal. But it's absolutely fascinating. — Channing Tatum

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

Mixtape legend, underground kings ... Looking for the right way to do the wrong things — Drake

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

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

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

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

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