Quotes About The Titanic

#1. The Titanic was in more senses than one a fool's paradise. There is nothing that man can build that nature cannot destroy, and far as he may advance in might and knowledge and cunning, her blind strength will always be more than his match.

Filson Young

#2. Someone that immediately touchy was probably a servant. "How did you end up on the Titanic?" Pinky asked. She tried not to make her voice hurried, but she couldn't waste time if she was going to get more interviews before Smith and his crowd caught her.

Kate Alcott

#3. There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was designed, the emphasis was placed on surviving a head-on collision.

Henry Petroski

#4. Probably not true, but remember this: someone really did design the Titanic and then label it unsinkable. For

Stephen King

#5. Before the Titanic, all was quiet. Afterward all was tumult. That is why, to anybody who lived at the time, the Titanic more than any other single event marks the end of the old days, and the beginning of a new, uneasy era.

Walter Lord

#6. Deciding to spit in the eye of every homely matron who ever warned her children not to stare into the sun directly, you crank the titanic telescope around to look directly towards the sun, the center of our solar system.

Daniel Keidl

#7. I was absolutely obsessed with the Titanic - not the film, the actual boat. I'd draw diagrams about it and theorise that if it was built in a different way, it wouldn't have sunk.

Margot Robbie

#8. Bye," he whispered to me.
"Bye."
Neither of us moved.
"Seriously? This isn't the Titanic, you'll see each other again," Bethan said to us.

J.J. McAvoy

#9. My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.

Clive Cussler

#10. Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic

Peyton Manning

#11. Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

Erma Bombeck

#12. I wouldn't trust you if you were the last life raft leaving the Titanic.-max

James Patterson

#13. I'm in the Dance Band on the Titanic Singing "Nearer my God to thee" and the icebergs on the starboard bow Won't you dance with me?

Harry Chapin

#14. 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.

Timothy Noah

#15. It's like being on the Titanic and seeing there's only one lifeboat left.

Harry Redknapp

#16. Robertson called his ship the Titan; the White Star Line called its ship the Titanic. This is the story of her last night.

Walter Lord

#17. I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.

Buzz Aldrin

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

Arianna Huffington

#19. Anytime you're afraid to try something new ... just remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the titanic.

David Drake

#20. The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.

Barbara Bush

#21. The once-great country into which I'd been born now resembled its former self in name only. It didn't matter who was in charge. Those people were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and everyone knew it.

Ernest Cline

#22. If Camels are the ship of the dessert, this one is the Titanic

Karl Pilkington

#23. What went down well?" Mum asks, coming back to the table. "Nothing," I say. "The Titanic," Elliot says.

Zoe Sugg

#24. Mrs. Carstairs is terribly excited about being aboard this particular ship, as it is the Titanic's maiden voyage, and she is suppose to be the largest ever built.

Ellen Emerson White

#25. disgraceful, indelible blot on the conscience of England and it would remain there forever. No true Irishman would ever forgive them for that, but the Titanic story

Michael Grant

#26. 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

#27. Reasoning with a two-year-old is about as productive as changing seats on the Titanic.

Robert Scotellaro

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

Jerry Lawler

#29. Workable solutions for Earth are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers, or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Lawrence Anthony

#30. The captain of the Titanic, who said to room service, Who sent for all this ice? Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#31. There were nine dogs on the Titanic. They stayed in kennels, but their owners could take them out onto the decks for walks. Two Pomeranians and one Pekingese survived with their masters.

Lauren Tarshis

#32. Finding a good script is really difficult and the scariest thing of all is when they say about a script that's not right, "we will fix it.." It's like before you get on the Titanic and you see a big hole. In process, it's too late.

Robin Williams

#33. The Titanic will protect itself.

Robert Ballard

#34. When arranging a tour around the United States I had decided to cross on the Titanic. It was rather a novelty to be on the largest ship yet launched. It was no exaggeration to say that it was quite easy to lose one's way on such a ship.

Lawrence Beesley

#35. 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

#36. You know why men make more money than women? Because, in the unlikely event that we're both on the Titanic and it starts to sink, for some reason, you get to leave with the kids and I have
to stay - that's why I get the dollar more an hour.

Bill Burr

#37. It is a rash man indeed who would set himself up as final arbiter on all that happened the incredible night the Titanic went down.

Walter Lord

#38. To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it.

David Gerrold

#39. Sometimes, though, you make a pact with yourself. I'll pretend there's nothing wrong if you pretend there's nothing wrong. It's called denial, and it's one of the strongest pacts in the world. Just ask all those people who were still drinking champagne while the Titanic went down.

Neal Shusterman

#40. Maybe all the events of the last few months had occured for just one reason - to bring Thad and me together. Perhaps our being here on the Titanic wasn't pre-destination, but rather, destiny.

Suzanne Weyn

#41. I was born Katie O'Reilly," she began. "Poor Irish, but proud of it. I boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a third class passenger with nothing more than the clothes on my back. And the law at my heels." Titanic Rhapsody

Jina Bacarr

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

Chuck Palahniuk

#43. If you worry about missing the boat, remember the Titanic!

Sid Bolon

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

Jeremy Glass

#45. You make the Titanic look like a tiny little misadventure.

Gina Ranalli

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

Van Jones

#47. He was very cock sure of himself. He came at me and threw a big slow right, but he was so slow that he had telegraphed it to me and I'm ready for it and block it. I put a couple of big jabs on him and he went down like the Titanic, maybe quicker.

Stephen Richards

#48. Some points in time cannot flow. Think of those big-ticket moments, the ones you could still recite from fifth grade: your 1492 and Civil Wars, the Titanic and presidential assassinations. These are icebergs, solid and immense, forcing incalculable eddies to swirl around them.

Thomm Quackenbush

#49. I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night ...

Erma Bombeck

#50. Until the moment she actually sinks, the Titanic is unsinkable.

Julia Hughes

#51. To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic, the Republicans have nominated Mitt Romney.

Andy Borowitz

#52. When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate ... because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash.

Barney Frank

#53. You know, one of the biggest thrills that I have is when famous people recognize me from "Taxi." When I was working with George C. Scott on "The Titanic," he knew every episode. He would quote lines from it ...

Marilu Henner

#54. The killer bees have gone, like rats deserting the Titanic.

Geraldo Rivera

#55. There are a lot of things not going well for Microsoft right now - Microsoft reorganization appears to be rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.

Adam Hartung

#56. It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

John Eldredge

#57. I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.

Pete Rose

#58. [On 9/11:] ... those towers represented human triumph over nature. Larger than life, built to be unburnable, they were the Titanic of our day. For them to burn and fall so quickly means that the whole superstructure we depend upon to mitigate nature and assure our comfort and safety could fall.

Starhawk

#59. 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

#60. I'd turn and run but I'm anchored by two dudes that could hold the Titanic during a tsunami.

Karen Marie Moning

#61. By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.

C. Everett Koop

#62. Quote for the day from an unknown author:
"Don't ever question the value of volunteers: Noah's Ark was built by volunteers; the Titanic was built by porfessionals".

Douglas Boren

#63. 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

#64. I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class.

Art Buchwald

#65. Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

Stephen Covey

#66. The United States is like the Titanic, and I'm here with the lifeboat trying to get people to leave the ship ... I see a real financial crisis coming for the United States.

Peter Schiff

#67. There are various levels above and below the human through which the individual soul may pass in the course of its reincarnations - the angelic, the titanic, the animal, the purgatories, and the realm of the frustrated ghosts.

Alan W. Watts

#68. But he was so great!' Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on a vacation

Greg Behrendt

#69. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

Jeanette Winterson

#70. I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.

Keith Moon

#71. We can talk about republican or democratic approaches to the economy, but until you fix the student loan bubble - and that's where the real bubble is - and the tuition bubble, we don't have a chance. All this other stuff is shuffling deck-chairs on the Titanic.

Mark Cuban

#72. I asked, looking at the jukebox, now totally out of place, like a British police call box on the deck of the Titanic.

Kim Harrison

#73. It was as though all the passengers on the Titanic were roped together, and the fattest guy had just fallen overboard.

Mitch Feierstein

#74. Something tells me if he thought you wanted the Titanic, he would retrieve it from the depths of the Atlantic for you.

Nicole Williams

#75. Carpe Diem, just remember that we're partying on the Titanic.

Will McIntosh

#76. Overriding everything else, the Titanic also marked the end of a general feeling of confidence.

Walter Lord

#77. Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?!

Erma Bombeck

#78. I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#79. The clock in the wireless shack said 12:45 A.M. when the Titanic sent the first SOS call in history.

Walter Lord

#80. I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.

Studs Terkel

#81. 'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. It's like booking passage on the Titanic. Whether you go first-class or steerage, the result is the same.

Albert Allen Bartlett

#82. Don't you think you're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?

William Vickrey

#83. If we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic." - Dov Brezak

Dov Brezak

#84. The sinking of the Titanic has made me indescribably happy; there is, after all, an ocean.

Alexander Blok

#85. Engaging with haters is like rearranging pictures on the Titanic. What's the point?

Jodi Picoult

#86. The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

Nelson Mandela

#87. It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research.

Walter Lord

#88. He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania

Terry Pratchett

#89. So many of us find ourselves saying, "but he was so great!" Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on vacation. Things changed and it's important to remember that they did.

Greg Behrendt

#90. The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.

Daniel Mendelsohn

#91. I know if I had the chance of going aboard the Titanic in those days, I would have gone - I know I would have. I adore going on the Queen Mary - I think it's the only way to travel from New York.

Celia Imrie

#92. I mean, how bad could it be? (Imagine Carrie on a date with Jason on the Titanic, and you will begin to see where this all went so horribly wrong.)

Julia Mills

#93. The passions of the titanic struggle will finally enter upon the sleep of oblivion, and only its splendid accomplishments for the cause of human freedom and a united nation, stronger and richer in patriotism because of the great strife, will be remembered.

James Longstreet

#94. 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.

Henry Allingham

#95. He looked like someone with a steerage ticket on the titanic. Somebody who'd be standing in line at Ellis Island. Undiluted and old-blooded. Also cute.

Rainbow Rowell

#96. Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers.

Bob Dylan

#97. In the same way that the stewards of the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on the bar than the enormous hole in the side of the ship which was letting in zillions of gallons of water, I too was worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital.

Marian Keyes

#98. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.

Eugene McCarthy

#99. It's all about perspective. The sinking of the Titanic was a miracle to the lobsters in the ship's kitchen. (Oct 4, 2011)

Wynne McLaughlin

#100. The events of the Titanic disaster can be seen as a symbol of what happens through overconfidence in technology, complacence, and a mindset of profits over people's safety.

Deborah Hopkinson