Under't Quotes

Don't take me under your wing and tell me that scent is duck sauce — Josh Stern

I don't want to look at myself - ever. All I see is that my face is a problem. It's asymmetrical. I get terrible bags under my eyes. — Whitney Cummings

I just can't operate with any direct awareness of the pressures I might be under. — Michael Lehmann

It wasn't like there was an alien hiding under the table, moving crap around for fun. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers.
As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool. — T. S. Eliot

Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common. — Angela Carter

The workers love Khrushchev very much. He hasn't got an enemy in the entire country. Quite a few under it. — Bob Hope

Panties?! Now you know you don't wear no damn panties, Sean!" "Chile, you don't know what I got on under here! — Perri Forrest

It was odd how you could love something so much, but forget about it when it wasn't right under your nose. — Karin Slaughter

Why did eighteen blondes go to the movies together? A: They heard that under seventeen weren't admitted! — Johnny B. Laughing

Monsters don't sleep under your bed, they scream inside of your head — Unknown

How easy it was to be a Communist when you weren't living under Communism! — Julian Barnes

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't. — Nicolas Roeg

If you are helping someone who is drowning, make they don't pull you under water. — Matshona Dhliwayo

George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge ... you can't hear him talk. — Steven Wright

You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances. — Sarah Dessen

You don't try and put rockets under prime ministers. — Andrew Forrest

Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him. — Minnie Pearl

Tailored jackets with jeans is a great look for all ages. Dress up with a heel and pretty shirt, or just wear a smart T-shirt under the jacket. — Twiggy

Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways. — Andy Pick

One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them. — Harper Lee

One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm. — Barbara Hambly

You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are. — C.S. Lewis

Hiding under the bed doesn't make the worry stop. — Cynthia Voigt

But I'm worse. I'm a child playing dress-up, who can't even recognize herself under her own costume. — Stephanie Perkins

The youth are hurt. Our majority are youth, under 30. They have no hope. They don't get jobs. — Ashraf Ghani

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go. — Henry Cavill

Don't worry, nothing is under control. — Arik Zeevy

I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all. — Faith Hill

I was under the care of a couple of medical students who couldn't diagnose a decapitation. — Jeffrey Bernard

I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution. — John Engler

You and I, we can be the best of friends, but don't expect to find your fairy tale under my roof. You got me? — J.M. Darhower

I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God. — George H. W. Bush

I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18! — Angela Lansbury

Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it. — Ignazio Silone

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it. — Sue Townsend

People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right. — Frank Iero

I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock. — Lenny Kravitz

Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as a good state. — Joseph Sobran

Irving Penn said he didn't want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it. — Annie Leibovitz

It takes great character and understanding of human emotions to help someone you shouldn't be helping under normal circumstances. — Daya Kudari

I'm opposed to censure, .. Whether or not one will be permitted, it's under discussion. It isn't ruled out, but it's not a dead-bang certainty either. — Henry Hyde

Why are you wearing a T-shirt under your other T-shirt?" Livvy asked.
"In case one of them is stolen," Marked said, as it were entirely normal. — Cassandra Clare

You can't build a life
on another human being. We're foundations
of sand. We're Atlas buckling under the sky. — Elisabeth Hewer

Grand Central really didn't want me doing anything under my own name but the 'Kitty' novels. — Carrie Vaughn

I'm not busy ... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy. — Garrison Keillor

Tottenham have impressed me. They haven't thrown in the towel even though they have been under the gun. — Bobby Charlton

It would be nice if all the Republicans could put poetry in a little box and put the box under the bed and sit on it, but they can't. — Sam Hamill

Knowing you were right down the hall was way too hard. I couldn't do it, Evan declared, sliding under the covers next to me. — Rebecca Donovan

Fair warning, baby. I'm in the mood for a fight, and I wouldn't play fair or nice.--Niall Hunter to Khloe Richardson — Naima Simone

Really? well, thank you. I was under the impression you wouldn't spit on me if I was on fire — Abbi Glines

The philosophy that I've embraced isn't about sitting under a tree and studying my navel — Orlando Bloom

Under no circumstances do I ever want to see any part of me having sex! I wouldn't want to see video tape, pictures, in the mirror, nothing. — Moby

Another bad thing about "prosperity" is that you can't jingle any money without being under suspicion — Kin Hubbard

I don't feel like myself. But I do think I might pass for twenty-one. I'm under this makeup somewhere, I'm just not sure where. — Nyrae Dawn

If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him? — Oskar Schindler

Why can't life always be lived under the stars,' she said, 'with great music and family and friends? — Jan Karon

The law didn't care if you were actually doing anything bad; they were willing to put you under the microscope just for being statistically abnormal. — Cory Doctorow

I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way. — Olivia Williams

Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

When I got back from shooting 'Deception,' I was under contract with NBC, so I can't really do anything. — Wes Brown

If you find yourself under lethal attack don't be kind. Be harsh. Be tough. Be ruthless. — Jeff Cooper

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree. — Helen Keller

Don't criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances. — Dale Carnegie

If you're crying under fire, then you wasn't built for war.
If a pimp took your girl, then your girl was never yours. — MF Grimm

Well, if all three of us go we'll have to Disapparate separately," Ron was saying. "We can't all fit under the Cloak anymore. — J.K. Rowling

I know that the thing under my bed doesn't exist. But I also know that if I keep my feet under the blanket, it won't grab my ankle — Stephen King

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty. — T. S. Eliot

You're a hothouse flower," I tell her. "You can't grow under natural conditions. You need adventure. And security and love in order to stay alive. — Krista Ritchie

Actually, my plan was to be 20-under par after two days but it didn't work — Lee Trevino

Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I thought you were going to - you're standing under my window. Aren't you supposed to climb up here or something?"
"My ladder's at home. — Elizabeth Scott

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive. — Moliere

If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it. — Malcolm McDowell

POPPY: Don't just agree with me because it's my birthday, and I'm special, and you feel inferior under the shadow of my specialness. — Bijou Hunter

I don't deal with fools terribly lightly, and I think under any definition the man's a fool. — Tony Windsor

They were shot with a shotgun and put in garbage bags and thrown under a bridge," Shrake said. "If it wasn't murder, it was a really weird accident. — John Sandford

I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof. — E.L. Konigsburg

Malaria-hosting mosquitoes will not wait politely during their most active evening feeding hours for people to go to bed under mosquito nets. — T.K. Naliaka

Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don't need it. — Burt Shavitz

You can't, in the 21st century, continue to live in a system where people live under martial law for 30 years. — Mohamed ElBaradei

Unlike humanity, my mind isn't so frail as to simply climb under gravity and submit to God. — Lionel Suggs

Won't say anything, won't burst into tears and buckle under the weight of this last, awful straw. — Laura Wiess

A college president is like the lawn mower at a cemetary: he has a lot of people under him, but they don't pay much attention to him — Steven Sample

You cannot thrive under the wrong stars, Kricket ... the stars here are in opposition to you ... can't you feel it? ... Let us take you home. — Amy A. Bartol

I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm. — Robert Englund

I try to take a couple of young guys under my wing and tell them what I've learned, because you can't teach nobody if you don't know anything. — Gucci Mane

Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last. — E.T.A. Hoffmann

I love it when people under estimate me.
I proves they haven't got a clue of what they are talking about. — Shay Bell

The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated. — Jo Nesbo

I don't mess with that cat. I'm pretty sure he carries a blade under his jersey. — Charles Barkley

Be helpful to all who need your assistance, but don't overdo it. Over-helpfulness too often results in under-performance. — Mardy Grothe

The cut under his eye and the split skin on his lower lip only enhanced his profile. He didn't look defeated. He looked like a fighter. A champion. — Lisa Kessler

I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic
I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Most of my friends love going out, but I have to get a lot of sleep. If I don't, it shows up on my skin and under my eyes. — Herieth Paul

My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it! — Emily Carr

I'm changed; she's changed me. I'm under her damn spell and I sure as shit don't wanna get out. — Tillie Cole

You can't get a personal computer to work without Windows (this is under the assumption you can actually get Windows to work). — Steven B. Green

I'm going to pull you under and drown you in me until you can't forget. — Ella Frank

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher. — Dean Koontz