Undergrounds Quotes & Sayings

There is a real connection between culture and climate change. We all have a part to play and if you engage with life, you will get a new set of values, get off the consumer treadmill, and start to think, and it is these great thinkers who will rescue the planet. — Vivienne Westwood

Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you. — Mitch Albom

The air was not as hazy here as it was over the rest of the city, and the sky overhead had achieved a color that was almost blue. — Cassandra Clare

Dakota reclined glumly on his couch, mixing sugar into his drink and chugging it. He was a beefy guy with curly black hair and eyes that didn't quite line up straight, so Hazel felt like the world was leaning whenever she looked at him. It wasn't a good sign that he was drinking so much so early in the night. "So." He burped, waving his goblet. "Welcome to the Percy, party." He frowned. "Party, Percy. Whatever. — Rick Riordan

God speaks all languages - including yours. What language is God speaking to you? — Max Lucado

God, either you come down here tonight and touch me, or I'm going to die and come up there and touch you. — Rodney Howard-Browne

This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart. — Eduardo Galeano

How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns! — Thomas Brooks

Dont look for something that isn't there, because you're never going to find it — Jayden P

The canvases which Mr. St. Jones referred to with a paintbrush that was long and slightly bowed: for the most part interiors, or undergrounds, of pocked and craggy holes, rock vaults with mossy floors and slimy walls, or narrow scenic vistas that skinny silver streams squirmed through like sidewinders flipped on their backs, beneath downward grasping tentacles of roots, stalactites dagger-sharp and dangling by threads of stone, stalagmites teetering, all doused, frozen in molten electric white that suggested what a glimpse of hell might be, too beautiful, some still lifes too, great bulbous beets, hoary legumes, giant scallions, white carrots, tomatoes, berries, squash in huge radiant bowls, and portraits, signed by Ionia, of shadows, from which gleamed eyes and teeth and nails and, here and there, a glowing bubble, or scrotum, caught the eye. Near the door a counter clacked but rather quietly. — Douglas Woolf

As soon as people decide to confront a problem, they realize that they are far more capable than they thought they were. — Paulo Coelho

It is so much easier to rest contented with what we have already acquired than to change ever so slightly those routine but profound habits of thought and feeling which govern our life, and by which we live so blissfully. This mental inertia is, perhaps, our greatest enemy. Insidiously it leads us to assume that we can renew our lives without renewing our habits. — Nadia Boulanger

What I'm saying is simply that every totalitarian society, no matter how strict, has had its underground. In fact, two undergrounds. There's the underground involved in political resistance and the underground involved in preserving beauty and fun
which is to say, preserving the human spirit. — Tom Robbins

Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself. — James Jeans

No party is as bad as its leaders. — Will Rogers

Remember what your grandfather said about the earth's being round at school and flat at home. He was a wise man and taught you what you need to know in Burma. It is the same in politics. Learn the arguments for socialism in the textbooks parrot them pass your exams. Never never argue. But keep within your own head and heart what you and everyone really knows that in the real world it is a system of incompetence and corruption and a project for ruining the country. — Pascal Khoo Thwe

Life will always have the value that you give it. — Steven Redhead