Titanic Quotations

When I was 15, I came downstairs one morning, picked up mother's newspaper and, oh, what a shock! The Titanic had gone. The 'unsinkable' ship - but it had gone down so simple.

In April, God speaks to us in the seas whose rhythmic murmuring fills our ears from a long way off. It was in April that the Titanic went down into the deep to lie like a slasher's victim, bleeding the 'debris field' - its passengers' personal possessions, the everyday things of everyman and everywoman - across the ocean's floor.

Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic figures like Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, and is one of the great fonts of world culture.

Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank, and risk management is a good deal worse.

We call the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia - as well as those of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia - 'accidents.' Foreseeing such undesirable events is what engineers are expected to do. However, design trade-offs leave technological systems open to failings once predicted, but later forgotten.

I always knew that it was going to be an uphill climb to replace Letterman from complete obscurity with no experience, but I think I had to go through it to know exactly what a titanic effort that was going to be.

Titanic Thompson and Amarillo Slim would have run from a game with Marty Stanovich. Marty could really play, and he didn't cheat.

The only difference between Rutland and the Titanic is that the Titanic had a band.

We're not doing the Towering Inferno - Titanic version.

One thing prosecutors can expect to get from Causey is testimony that he met with Ken Lay during that period and made him aware of how deep the plight was at Enron. By the time of Lay's return, Enron was almost like the Titanic after it hit the iceberg.

I broke the record on Sept. 11 and I was born the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank (April 14).

It is a concern that citizens already are touring the Titanic and some Atlantic vent sites with deep-diving submersibles. When Yellowstone Park -- which features geothermal geysers analogous to deep-sea vents -- was established in the mid-1800s, no ordinary person could get there because it was a four-day trip by horse from the nearest rail line, but roughly 3,000,000 visited Yellowstone last year.

I think to have done TITANIC would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.

Reflex inhibition acting against a reflex titanic contraction may diminish the contraction in one or other or all of several different ways.

I wish I didn't have to do it. But I'm standing on the deck of the Titanic and see the iceberg coming,

Well, we got the 'W.' But you could see us look like the Titanic sinking, ready to roll over there. We got steals and hit enough free throws to pull it out. It wasn't pretty, we realize that. The good thing is we won, but I'm not sure it feels like a 'W' right now because we were struggling so badly.

Titanic clashes in this video courtroom are likely to swirl around botched paint jobs, unshoveled sidewalks, defective toasters, aggressive guard dogs and every conceivable, and sometimes inconceivable, mishap involving a dry cleaner.

When the Titanic goes down, you try to save as many people as you can. We used to be a 100 percent domestic producer and we were a financial disaster. Now we are importing and I'd put our financial health up against anyone.

We're not doing the Towering Inferno - Titanic version, ... two policemen who survived the towers' collapse and were rescued from the trade center ruins after 22 hours.

The exhibition really captures the essence of the Titanic story. It celebrates the conception and building of the largest moving object made by human hands at the time. It also celebrates the life at sea for the passengers -- the luxury of first class and the more cramped conditions of third class. Then, it sort of changes moods to that dramatic encounter with the iceberg.

When you have a population that is immobile, no matter how you plead for them to leave no matter how early you get a start they can't leave! It's like the Titanic is sinking. They couldn't just say, 'Everyone off!' There's no place to go. You're stuck!

What's hurting the U.S. economy is total government spending. The deficit is an indicator that the government is spending so much money that it can't even get around to stealing all of the money that it wants to spend. But the tip of the iceberg is not what hit the Titanic - it was the 90 percent of the iceberg under water.

We've been knocking at the door for a while so it was nice for the door to be opened. But it's going to be a titanic battle because the Hurricanes are a great side.

Vicente Fox has a truly titanic task upon his shoulders because dismantling an authoritarian apparatus that has had a grip on power for 71 years means reforming the state practically from head to foot.

We are obviously pretty down. It's been a titanic struggle. We sort of knock them but we can never get them down. Then Australia come back harder at us. That is the sign of a champion side. Just when we think we will land the killer blow, they come back harder at us all the time.

The Titanic is really a wreck that's under assault from the environment.

It would have been much more difficult 10 years ago when there was a feeling somebody here was to blame. But Titanic was the most advanced ship of the time and there was nothing wrong with it when it left Belfast. When you think about the cost of creating a brand name, this is something everybody has heard of.

Bad deals have led to some titanic failures for shareholders.

You've got to see it to believe it. I say it's grand. And the Titanic at its time was the largest ship in the world at 42,000 tons. Now this is three times the size of the Titanic .

This appears to be about a clash of titanic egos and, at Oracle, there is only one ego that ultimately matters.

It's always premature. It was premature that the Titanic went down. But it did indeed disappear.

I've heard it said that we are the first generation to have the ability to turn the Titanic around, ... I take my daughter to the office with me. They'll help with those things they can, putting stamps on envelopes, helping at benefits. They spend a lot of time in the natural world and have learned to love and respect it. They see the interconnectedness and they see that they make a difference.

Not every story in history has a beginning, a middle and an end, but the wreck of the Titanic does. It begins when they leave, in the middle it hits an iceberg, and in the final two hours, the ship sinks.

It turns out the Titanic was more merciful.

Not much to comment on, because they made a botch of Raise the Titanic 20 years ago. I wouldn't sell to Hollywood.

I pored over art books and absorbed the placidness of Monet's garden, the sparkling color of the Impressionists, the strength and solidity of Michelangelo's figures showing the titanic power of humans at one with God, Jan Vermeer's serene Dutch women bathed in gorgeous honey-colored light... My conviction grew that art was stronger than death.

The conditions of the ocean floor are very harsh. The Titanic lies in 2½ miles of water beneath the surface of the North Atlantic.

Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, "No, thank you," to dessert that night. And for what!