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. Char me the trunk of a redwood tree. Give me pages of white chalk cliffs to write upon. Magnify me thousands of times, and replace my trifling immodesties with a titanic megalomania - then might I write largely enough for our subjects.

Charles Fort

#3. Fine, but if you get yourself killed I reserve the right to flush your ashes down the toilet while I sing the theme from Titanic.

Quinn Loftis

#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. Miyazaki's films in Japan are bigger than Titanic. He's an incredible rock star there. In the US, they don't do as well.

Henry Selick

#7. So I can be the girl from Titanic who stays high and dry while you, the guy, vanish beneath the icy waves? I don't think so.

Julia Spencer-Fleming

#8. I know a lot of the intense moments in 'Titanic' were made that much easier and were pushed to even further limits because of that relationship.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Things work out the way they're meant to

Danielle Steel

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

James Patterson

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Buzz Aldrin

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

David Drake

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

Zoe Sugg

#19. I think I've definitely found a niche working in comedy, but dramatic films are what brought me here. After I saw 'Titanic' in the theater, I got the bug.

Carly Craig

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Robert Scotellaro

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

Jerry Lawler

#24. 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

#25. Jay Carney told the reporters at his morning briefing that he hoped they would watch the new movie about Obama's first term 'many times.' They might. Look how well 'Titanic' did at the box office.

Fred Thompson

#26. The Titanic will protect itself.

Robert Ballard

#27. Imagine how titanic an echo chamber this great city would seem without the noise of eve none of mine. A huge bronze bell deprived of one hidden small iron clapper, its sole reason for being, its single means of song.

Allan Gurganus

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. Personally, I consider 'Titanic' the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming; the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic chick flick within a classic disaster movie.

Diablo Cody

#32. 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

#33. 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

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

Chuck Palahniuk

#35. One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.

Gavin Bryars

#36. Katie shook her head in dismay. "I thought being poor was the worst thing that could happen to a girl."
"No, Katie," the countess said in a clear voice. "The worst thing is to be in love with one man and have to marry another."
Katie O'Reilly to the Countess of Marbury in "Titanic Rhapsody

Jina Bacarr

#37. You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story

Dan Harmon

#38. When Byron's eyes were shut in death, We bow'd our head and held our breath. He taught us little; but our soul Had felt his like a thunder roll ... We watch'd the fount of fiery life Which serv'd for that Titanic life.

Matthew Arnold

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

Jeremy Glass

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

Gina Ranalli

#41. Womens Heart Is The Ocean Of Secrets..

Titanic

#42. 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

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

Erma Bombeck

#44. The last I checked, 'Titanic' worldwide has grossed $1.3 billion. Imagine how much more it would have grossed if I had gotten the sky correct,

James Cameron

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

Julia Hughes

#46. Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built he Titanic.

Elizabeth May

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

Andy Borowitz

#48. I can't watch 'Titanic' without breaking down within the first 10 minutes. You know, when it got re-released in 3D, I went to see it again. My mom came to pick me up from the cinema, and I was just bawling my eyes out.

Sophie Turner

#49. If you look at all the movies that have made tons of money, almost all of them are great movies. Even Titanic. I think Titanic is a great movie.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#50. Lending my voice to a dedicated readership is a match made in heaven.

R. Barri Flowers

#51. 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

#52. I have a strong urge to lie down and pretend this is not happening - like the old couple in Titanic.

Tina Fey

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

Geraldo Rivera

#54. 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

#55. I love the movie "Titanic." It's my favorite romantic comedy!

Troy Bisson

#56. You know it's a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.

Julia Spencer-Fleming

#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. The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.

Larry Niven

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. I actually cried during 'Titanic'. It was one of the few movies I've seen in the theater multiple times.

Jason Earles

#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. 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

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

Greg Behrendt

#67. If the stillness is Volcanic
In the human face
When upon a pain Titanic
Features keep their place-
If at length the smoldering anguish
Will not overcome-
And the palpitating Vinyard
In the dust, be overthrown?

Emily Dickinson

#68. 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

#69. The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. Its the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it.

Eva Hart

#70. 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

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

Mitch Feierstein

#72. In vogue and cosmopolitan they clutch their Pomeranians and walk among the millionaires or watch from swayback steamer chairs

Allan Wolf

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

Nicole Williams

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

Will McIntosh

#75. It would be difficult to tell," Wulf said. "I've always been a romantic. I've seen Casablanca twice, and I sat through the entire ordeal of Titanic".
"Didn't you enjoy Titanic?"
"I was relieved when the ship went down".

Janet Evanovich

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

Erma Bombeck

#77. I have frequently wondered if the majority of mankind ever pause to reflect upon the occasionally titanic significance of dreams, and of the obscure world to which they belong.

H.P. Lovecraft

#78. '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

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

William Vickrey

#80. 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

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

Jodi Picoult

#82. I'm absolutely positive it's in our human nature to want to know about the past. The two most popular movies of all time, while not historically accurate, are about core historic events: Gone With the Wind and Titanic.

David McCullough

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. Titanic city" was born.
It's the song, they said.
No, the sea, the luxury, the ship.
It's the sex, they whispered.
Leo, said Aziza sheepishly. It's all about Leo.
"Everybody wants Jack," Laila said to Mariam. That's what it is. Everybody wants Jack to rescue them from disaster.

Khaled Hosseini

#87. 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

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

Daniel Mendelsohn

#89. 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

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. 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

#93. Things Isabella Wouldn't Care About:
- Titanic sinking again.
- Metror striking Earth and landing directly on top of world's most innocent panda.
- Titanic sinking again and this time the entire crew is puppies.

Jim Benton

#94. The rage inside him was titanic. How to keep from exploding? What a relief exploding was.

Jonathan Franzen

#95. 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

#96. 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

#97. 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

#98. I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, Downstairs, perished on the Titanic, I wept so convulsively and developed such anorexia that I had to be force-fed.

S.J Perelman

#99. If I'm on the titanic I want to be steering.

Matt Mullenweg

#100. It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea to be on it.

William Hague