The Man Who Lived Underground Quotes

#1. Unfortunately, violence has a way of overpowering even the strongest of wills

Kenneth Eade

#2. There is one man," the artist said after a moment. He'd paled. "H. F. Powell."
"Where would I find him?"
West didn't seem to hear him for a moment. He shook his head as if clearing away cobwebs from his brain. "Find him?" His laugh was more of a grunt. "Six feet under, last I checked.

B. J. Daniels

#3. I cannot tell what I am as much afraid of, as a woman who invariably washes on Monday. It is a kind of key to character; and if her mouth is not puckered and her brow wrinkled, they will be, unless she repents.

Jane Swisshelm

#4. Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Dag Hammarskjold

#5. I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success.

Ben Lewin

#6. The brain isn't very much like a computer, although it doesn't do a bad job, considering that it's built by unskilled labor and programmed more by pure chance than anything else.

Joe Haldeman

#7. Nothing can stop a living thing that wants to be free

Aravind Adiga

#8. aphorism 90:

I am incorrigible. I would have every object of the universe mechanically predictable but myself.

Matt Berry

#9. I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.

Grace Cavalieri

#10. The wind changes direction within an instant and contains within it knowledge that can take away a life or spare it, as fate dictates. The wind likes you and fate will be kind, you just have to have hope.

Tami Egonu - A Rhapsody Of Dream