Iceberg Quotes

#1. I opened my mouth, mad enough to spit, and said loudly, "I don't eat iceberg lettuce!" Really? I asked myself. That's what you're going to throw down with? "I don't care what you eat, just don't be pickin' in there!

Piper Kerman

#2. I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long haul: all the endless auditing and things like that.

Norman Foster

#3. Wales smiled sadly. "Dig, dig, clear every little detail, that's a detective's life. A crime is like an iceberg, one-tenth showing and nine-tenths hidden.

Ed Lacy

#4. If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Ernest Hemingway,

#5. The basic thing a man should know is how to change a tyre and how to drive a tractor. Whatever that bearded dude is doing on the Dos Equis beer commercials sets the bar. That's your guy. Every man should be aiming to be like him. The beard is just the tip of the iceberg.

Timothy Olyphant

#6. The successes in the entertainment business are like one percent of the iceberg that you see, and the other ninety-nine percent, which is the rejection and the failure and the work and the toil and the sacrifice, is the rest of the iceberg that's below the water.

Jonathan Tucker

#7. The Kindle itself is just the tip of the iceberg, and its true workings are invisible.

Jason Merkoski

#8. I am an iceberg drifting towards the edge of the map

Laurie Halse Anderson

#9. Culture is like the visible and invisible levels of an iceberg -"the solid state of "water.

Pearl Zhu

#10. I'm fascinated with genetic science, and I have been for a very long time. I always look at science and technology because I think that the developments in my lifetime have been so remarkable - and we're only at the tip of the iceberg with projects like decoding the human genome.

Nick Rhodes

#11. Journalists often ask me when I go to the field, 'What do you expect to find?' And my answer always is, 'The unexpected,' because we're just looking at the tip of the iceberg; we've just scratched the surface.

Donald Johanson

#12. Reality is merely one-tenth visible section of the iceberg that one sees above the surface of the ocean - art remaining nine-tenths of it that lies below the surface. That is why it is more near Truth than Reality itself. Art does not merely reflect Reality - it enlarges it.

Anita Desai

#13. There might be others," Alicia said. "Some of the ones we don't see much. Q-33 North, maybe?" But she was looking at Nobununga, thoughtful.
"Is he the one with the tentacles?"
"No, that's Barry O'Shea. Q-33 North is the sort of iceberg with legs, remember? Up in Norway?"
"Oh, right.

Scott Hawkins

#14. Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface?

Delmore Schwartz

#15. Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.

Terence McKenna

#16. And as the smart ship grew In stature, grace, and hue In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too. - THOMAS HARDY, FROM "THE CONVERGENCE OF THE TWAIN"(LINES ON THE LOSS OF TITANIC), 1912

Hazel Gaynor

#17. Here." He spread his legs wider and patted the floor between them. "You'll be warmer, and I promise I won't grope you or anything."

Yes, because getting groped by a handsome, charming man hours after getting dumped by a workaholic iceberg was such a repulsive notion.

Meg Maguire

#18. Lendl has remained throughout as calm as the proverbial iceberg.

Dan Maskell

#19. The other skeletal hand held small cubes of cheese and pineapple on a stick. "WELL?" said Death, in a voice with all the warmth and color of an iceberg. He caught the wizards' gaze, and glanced down at the stick. I WAS AT A PARTY, he added, a shade reproachfully.

Terry Pratchett

#20. That's why we gotta do good things now. Make good decisions. Try to move the rudder long before the boat ever gets near the iceberg, right?

Chuck Wendig

#21. His voice was an iceberg, slow and deadly.

Kiera Cass

#22. What a great genius this water is! It has thousands of different beautiful faces: It is a rainbow, an ocean, a lake, an iceberg, a waterfall, a river, a drop, a fog ... What a great genius this water is!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms.

Lemony Snicket

#24. The digital and physical worlds are starting to come together more seamlessly - it's only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what's coming.

Mark Parker

#25. The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.

Arianna Huffington

#26. Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.

Siobhan Dowd

#27. I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg. I don't necessarily believe in vampires or werewolves or that kind of thing, but I believe there is definitely a realm we don't necessarily have access to.

Alan Ball

#28. It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

Taylor Swift

#29. The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Sigmund Freud

#30. It's what's available to the poor communities. They do buy healthy stuff, you know, but the lettuce is usually iceberg lettuce and to get any taste, they have to use all that ranch dressing.

Sandra Cisneros

#31. Now pull back briefly from the dripping streets of Ankh-Morpork, pan across the morning mists of the Disc, and focus in again on a young man heading for the city with all the openness, sincerity, and innocence of purpose of an iceberg drifting into a major shipping lane.

Terry Pratchett

#32. Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related.

Marianne Williamson

#33. I wonder how much we don't see. How much of our lives we witness and accept as truth when the rest of the iceberg - the heaviest, bulkiest part - is buried and invisible.

Sarah Ockler

#34. If Mark Henry was the Titanic, the iceberg would've sank!

Jerry Lawler

#35. Everyday conscious awareness of a human being is only the tip of an iceberg, underneath which there is a realm of relatively uncharted apparently mysterious processes, which are likely to be way more complex than the usual waking state.

Abhijit Naskar

#36. And when Iceberg heard about my measles, he laughed - laughed! Incidentally, he can go to hell!

Joan Wehlen Morrison

#37. It took a month for the gestalt of drugs and tension he moved through to turn those perpetually startled eyes into wells of reflexive need. He'd watched her personality fragment, calving like an iceberg, splinters drifting away, and finally he'd seen the raw need, the hungry armature of addiction.

William Gibson

#38. Sound is ephemeral, fleeting, but some sort of a physical manifestation can help you hold on to it longer in time. I'm sure of this; I've always thought the sound that you make is just the tip of the iceberg, like the person that you see physically is just the tip of the iceberg as well.

Yo-Yo Ma

#39. Salad can get a bad rap. People think of bland and watery iceberg lettuce, but in fact, salads are an art form, from the simplest rendition to a colorful kitchen-sink approach.

Marcus Samuelsson

#40. You think about acting kind of as an iceberg where you've got that 5% that you see ... but in order to have that 5% ... you have to have another 95%.

Jonathan Tucker

#41. The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

Ken Robinson

#42. News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the looming iceberg and fleeing customers, figures ice is the future and starts making snow cones.

Randall Munroe

#43. Sometimes I'd go to his house. If I had some cool cards in my pack of Iceberg Updates, we'd compare collections, maybe swap a few.

China Mieville

#44. If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie.

Chuck Palahniuk

#45. I studied Hitchcock a little bit at University and knew the famous story about the Birds - that he'd tortured Tippi for a day using real birds. I had no idea that it was a five-day onslaught and that it was the tip of an iceberg that carried on through to another film.

Toby Jones

#46. Catch sunbeams in a mirror! A reflection of a sunbeam can melt an iceberg.

Lara Biyuts

#47. Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place.

John Barrow

#48. Unbelievable as it may seem, one-third of all vegetables consumed in the United States come from just three sources: french fries, potato chips, and iceberg lettuce.

Marion Nestle

#49. I was the Titanic and the iceberg all at once.

Jeremy Glass

#50. Things that are interesting, people will pass around the Internet, around the world. And the blogosphere is only the tip of the iceberg.

Robert Scoble

#51. Barack Obama volunteered to be the Captain of the Titanic AFTER it hit the iceberg

Van Jones

#52. I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

Ernest Hemingway,

#53. O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers!
O for an iceberg or two at control!
O for a vale that at midday the dew cumbers!
O for a pleasure trip up to the pole!

Rossiter Johnson

#54. I'll travel the sub-zero tundra
I'll brave glaciers and frozen lakes
And that's just the tip of the iceberg
I'll do whatever it takes
To change

Owl City

#55. Rome is a broken mirror, the falling straps of a dress, a puzzle of astonishing complexity. It is an iceberg floating below our terrace, all its ballasts hidden beneath the surface.

Anthony Doerr

#56. The mind is like an iceberg full of penguins, but when another penguin jumps up, one on the other side falls off. So it is with the mind, if one wants to force bad things out one must keep the good penguins on and force the bad ones out.

Unknown

#57. Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!

Linwood Barclay

#58. The most amazing moments are when something horrible is about to happen or has just happened. The iceberg falling into the ocean. That aching moment. You can see the pieces, you can see how they fit together, but you can't put them back together.

Laurel Nakadate

#59. A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie. Almost everything gets left behind.

Errol Morris

#60. I feel like I'm in a disaster movie, and that belt is the iceberg that's going to sink the good ship Orgasm. It must be destroyed.

Leisa Rayven

#61. I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

Edna O'Brien

#62. A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

Mark Twain

#63. As I move along the line, other food items are plunked onto my tray: a small salad of iceberg lettuce and bacos, a slice of white bread with a pat of Hotel Holiday butter and blob of red Jell-O with fruit cocktail trapped inside. Instantly, I feel compassion for the trapped fruit.

Augusten Burroughs

#64. First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little.

Ingmar Bergman

#65. Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not ... to Bill O

Keith Olbermann

#66. New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.

Truman Capote

#67. With each tweet, post, share and comment, we are building and adding to our digital iceberg.

Tiffany Sunday

#68. Truth is made only for one reason to be deep down in the ocean as for the top part, they should be the lies... this is the iceberg.

Deyth Banger

#69. Just because you see an iceberg does not mean that there isn't global warming.

John Hodgman

#70. I wanted to continue the course, continue on what "we" had, and wanted life to be the same. However, the Titanic had hit the iceberg, the "done" couldn't be changed now.

Rajat Mishra

#71. (Regarding Titanic) Sometimes Zalmai would saunter in and watch this game. What did he get to be, he asked. "You can be the iceberg," said Aziza.

Khaled Hosseini

#72. Our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments.

Rosario Ferre

#73. 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.

Maury Yeston

#74. He grabbed my chin, pulling me towards him. 'In my dreams,' he told me, his voice still as hard and cold as an iceberg, 'more interesting things happen. Things that involve the two of us'.

Robert Thier

#75. I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.

Sam Rockwell

#76. What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.

Natasha Richardson

#77. The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!

Vikram Seth

#78. Life is an iceberg and I've only been seeing the tip.

Karen Marie Moning

#79. By fundamentally changing how we design the places and systems that enable our daily lives, we can slash emissions way beyond the immediate carbon savings - because our own personal emissions are just the tip of a vast iceberg of energy and resources consumed far from our view.

Alex Steffen

#80. Logic is a mere iceberg in the Mediterranean of wisdom.

Raheel Farooq

#81. What we do and accomplish is only the tip of the iceberg of what's possible for us.

Les Brown

#82. What to make of this man? He was proper. He was passionate. He had the public demeanor of an iceberg, but he kissed her as if she were his oasis in a vast, arid desert.
What are you doing to me? he'd whispered.
Charlotte had no idea.
But whatever it was, he was doing it back.

Tessa Dare

#83. Raven, a little later we can play Titanic" he calls over his shoulder. "I'll yell iceberg and you can go down.

J.B. Salsbury

#84. Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.

Jodi Picoult

#85. Google Earth is an incredible resource because from hundreds of miles in space, we can zoom in, and we can find things. Everyone always looks for their house first. That is the tip of the iceberg with remote sensing.

Sarah Parcak

#86. I had to learn that a good actor, like an iceberg, reveals only a small part of his ability on the surface. You suggest; you don't serve on a platter. You hold back. You don't expose it all to view. That's the way to put the audience's imagination to work.

Lilli Palmer

#87. Power is no more than a part, no more than the tip of the iceberg of limitless profundity and sublimate of Karate.

Mas Oyama

#88. We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

Olivier Theyskens

#89. In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's trees or stones or water or animals or stars, everything has an ineffable interior quality.

Mark Nepo

#90. No, Damien Stark is just one of those dark, quiet types. He's like an iceberg, Texas. The deep parts are well hidden and what you do see is hard and a little bit cold.

J. Kenner

#91. The attacks on old words and the coining of new are the visible tip of the iceberg of change.

Michelene Wandor

#92. Despite its widespread acceptance and the number of lives it has improved, what most of us in the West commonly associate with yoga represents only the tip of the iceberg that is yoga, a tiny fraction of what is a vast and profound science.

Rod Stryker

#93. If only he really knew how messy my head was sometimes. That attack last night? Just the tip of a Titanic-sized fuckedup iceberg.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#94. And the present sheared asunder from the past, like an iceberg sheared off from its frozen parent cliffs, and went sailing out to sea in lonely pride. All the past ages had accomplished was as nothing.

Aldous Huxley

#95. What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know

Jim Rohn

#96. The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg - and there simply aren't enough lifeboats to go round.

Nigel Farage

#97. Every once in a while, I hear somebody call me Tracy to try to let me know that they know me, you know, personally. But most of my real friends will call me Trey, or 'Ice' was basically short for Iceberg. So they would call me - some of my boys call me Berg.

Ice-T

#98. I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.

Sebastiao Salgado

#99. The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.

Bob Woodward

#100. The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

Aldous Huxley