Top 951 Underground Railroad Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

I think I'm commercial underground. I'm not commercial in the way that people consider 'pop,' but I'm not underground in the way that people consider that. either. I am just a cool guy.

I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary.

I've been involved in a lot of different kinds of projects. I've been on straight hip hop tours. I've been on underground rock tours. I've been on multimillion selling rock shows. I've been in the jam band thing, and both commercial and underground hip hop. Very few people listen to one kind of music.

The creative autonomy in 'Lucha Underground' is more than I felt in WWE. There is more willingness from the creative and production team to listen to input from the wrestlers in 'Lucha Underground.'

I want to be commercial, so imagine Disney people mixed with underground techno people... mixed with sass. An example of an underground techno person would be that French artist Yelle. She's all in French, so I can't understand a word she's saying, but her beats are really cool, and that's something that I want to do...but mix Disney in there, and that's what I want.

'Lucha Underground' really is the first episodic professional wrestling show. There are storylines in every promotion, but the way 'Lucha Underground' is crafted really is more of a TV show than your traditional wrestling show.

If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.

Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind.

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

There's always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is a very small bubble, and they both see themselves as secret societies.

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.

The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.

I literally lived on the other side of the railroad tracks, but I learned that division doesn't work.

In the homes of many Western Christians, hours are sometimes spent listening to worldly music. In our homes loud music can also be heard, but it is only to cover the talk about the gospel and the underground work so that neighbors may not overhear it and inform the secret police. How underground Christians rejoice on those rare occasions when they meet a serious Christian from the West!

When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.

Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.

My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.

I'm not a pop rapper. That's nothing against pop music - I love pop music. I've jumped on pop records for people and still will, but I'm not a pop artist. I didn't start from there. I started in underground music. I consider myself an underground artist, as well as a producer.

I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points.

Underground is underground, commercial is commercial. There's market for both, and both get money.

Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life.

Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.

No doubt Carter would describe the underground city in excruciating detail, with exact measurements of each room, boring history on every statue and hieroglyph, and background notes on the construction of the magical headquarters of the House of Life. I will spare you that pain. It's big. It's full of magic. It's underground. There. Sorted.

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

When I get into 'Lucha Underground,' now it feels like I'm part of a collaboration. And I'm talking about storylines; I'm talking about how we can put matches together, where we're going to go, what's going to happen to 'Lucha Underground' as a promotion; what's going to happen with my character; and I was back in suddenly.

There's always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is a very small bubble, and they both see themselves as secret societies. But I never saw it that way. I always thought music was open to all things.

As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.

A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second floor is every family member's room. They enjoy listening to music and reading books. On the first underground floor is the ruin of people's memories. The room filled with darkness is the second underground floor.

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

We will be in the railroad business, first and foremost.

Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

Canadian Railroad Trilogy is an extremely fine piece of songwriting.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship

One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.

The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.

With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.

I left for Fiji 36 hours after we wrapped 'Lucha Underground' season 4. The producers of 'Lucha Underground' had to bend over backwards to get me wrapped out of the season to leave for 'Survivor.'

I didn't really get into underground comics, though I've liked some of what I've seen. Dame Darcy was very impressive to meet, really talented. In general, I've always been more interested in searching out music, so I think I miss out on a lot of underground art.

I think what's happenin' is that, with the overflow of music, it's been diluted. There was a time when people would go search out underground records. Now, underground means free, and people don't really care for it. So now artists tend to go more pop and look for the radio.

Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.

What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences of his own folly. With a little wisdom and foresight, surely it is not yet necessary to forsake life in the fresh air and in the warmth of the sunlight. What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the moles.

The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.

I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job.

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.

It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.

In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground music was angry and dissatisfied. But now, mainstream culture isn’t complacent, it’s stupid and angry; underground culture reacts by becoming smarter, more serene. That’s not wimpy—it’s powerful and productive.

You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement.

When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress