Top 29 Underground Man Quotes
#1. They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.
Jack Kerouac
#2. A year ago he had been in America. Two years ago he had been straight. Tonight he was underground, with the remains of the bogey man, lit by the torches of the children who had killed him.
Caleb Crain
#3. Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
Dambisa Moyo
#4. You are the collared property of the most revered man in my world, in our world. I'm feared. I'm respected. He is worshipped. All of the Underground is waiting to make your acquaintance. Do you understand that?"
"No."
"You will.
Tiffany Reisz
#5. 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
#6. Coffee was only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your slightly older self.
Terry Pratchett
#7. I am a sick man ... I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#8. The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas Carlyle
#9. A decent, educated man cannot afford the luxury of vanity without being exceedingly exacting with himself and without occasionally despising himself to the point of hatred.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#10. A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#11. You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.
Earl Scruggs
#12. But a man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end of it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#13. To me, life without soccer would be like living a mindless and empty life.
Eunhyuk
#14. A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.
Henry S. F. Cooper
#16. New York had pushed and bent and bullied, driving me underground to sort out the madness and sculpt my Being with my own hands in self-discovery on its cold pottery wheel and in the white heat of its kiln. The City enabled me to learn who I really was, as a pixelated man and member of Humanity.
David B. Lentz
#17. Brother Lawrence called this "practicing the presence" of God, and the most important part of that practice lay in "renouncing, once and for all, whatever does not lead to God.
John Ortberg
#18. And I tell you, having girls has made me a much better man. I have friends who are fathers, but they only have boys, and they have the same attitude toward women they always had, you know? And I don't play that ... My girls, you mess with them? I will bury you underground.
Mark Wahlberg
#19. Being yourself is the most important element for me, because, if you're trying to be something you're not, the audience will pick up on that.
Will Champlin
#20. We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.
Allen Tate
#21. It's my belief that animals can help a human being travel to the wounds of childhood. The best part is, once you go there, you can fix things. Get on with life.
Jo-Ann Mapson
#22. Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.
Aristotle.
#23. I just always loved stand-up. It's like magic. You say something, and a whole room full of people laughs together. Say something else, they laugh again. The fact that people come to see that and participate in that ... I don't know, it's just like magic.
Dave Chappelle
#24. I think I was obsessed with the culture of riding. I got sick of having to date guys who rode motorcycles for me to be on them.
Katee Sackhoff
#25. On the contrary, I like men. They are polite and helpful and necessary for dancing. And men are so handsome and different, aren't they?"
"Not all of us, clearly, but I'll let that go.
Victoria Dahl
#26. A freezing cold underground river. A dark cave lit by ghosts. A man too stupid to realize you loved him. This is what you want?"
"All of it. Especially the very stupid man.
Molly Ringle
#27. In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.
Coco Chanel
#28. I wished Dean and Carlo were there - then I realized they'd be out of place and unhappy. They were like the man with the dungeon stone and the gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining. The
Jack Kerouac
#29. For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her.
Jung Chang
