Subterraneousness Quotes & Sayings

One, with fixed blinds inserted, in place of upper panels. The isolated subterraneousness of the cabin made a certain humming silence to reign there, though it was hooped round by all the roar of the elements. The loaded muskets in the rack were shiningly revealed, — Herman Melville

For me, language and how I use it are very important. I held back on doing a poetry book, walking the fine line between trying to be helpful and just putting more junk out there. — Sakyong Mipham

I like New York in the spring and in the fall. It's one of the best cities to walk that I've ever been in. — Terry O'Quinn

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: "You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires." — Fyodor Dostoevsky

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself. — Gene Mauch

But these days ... she didn't know what she needed. What she wanted. If she felt like admitting it, she actually didn't have the faintest clue who the hell she was anymore. All she knew was that whatever and whoever climbed out of that abyss of despair and grief would not be the same person who had plummeted in. And maybe that was a good thing. — Sarah J. Maas

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age. — Isaac D'Israeli

The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards. — Gregory David Roberts

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. — Gloria Steinem

There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast. — Hosea Ballou

I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much. — Jo Nesbo

There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties. — Richard Wilbur

When your show keeps coming back, year after year, you have a responsibility because your fans know your show sometimes better than you do. You can't play games with them. You have to be really focused and concentrated, and play at your best in every department. The writing staff has to be fantastic. Our director line-up has to be great. Everything has to be better and better. Your fans keep track of the details. — Demian Bichir

There's nothing beautiful about somebody killing themselves. — Mariel Hemingway