Top 100 Quotes About Titanic
#1. The man himself was pitiably inferior in mentality and language alike; but his glowing, titanic visions, though described in a barbarous disjointed jargon, were assuredly things which only a superior or even exceptional brain could conceive.
H.P. Lovecraft
#2. To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic, the Republicans have nominated Mitt Romney.
Andy Borowitz
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. People are always saying they loved me in 'Titanic.'
Cate Blanchett
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. White Star liner. The Clarks were booked for passage from New York to Ireland to Cherbourg. This crossing would be a treat, the second voyage of the largest ship afloat: the RMS Titanic.
Bill Dedman
#10. I have a strong urge to lie down and pretend this is not happening - like the old couple in Titanic.
Tina Fey
#11. I think I'm misunderstood when I post these comments about films. So here is Kate Winslet [in Titanic] sitting on - you know, laying on this plank. This ship is down. She let her boyfriend drown. They didn't even try a second time to get him to float on that with her. So I'm angry by that, I think.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#12. Why don't we have the chemistry that Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet had in Titanic? I'll tell you one reason: Because we're not in a movie!
Scott Disick
#13. The killer bees have gone, like rats deserting the Titanic.
Geraldo Rivera
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. I love the movie "Titanic." It's my favorite romantic comedy!
Troy Bisson
#17. You know it's a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.
Julia Spencer-Fleming
#18. I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.
Pete Rose
#19. [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
#20. 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
#21. Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.
Ann Coulter
#22. I'd turn and run but I'm anchored by two dudes that could hold the Titanic during a tsunami.
Karen Marie Moning
#23. I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.
Kate Winslet
#24. The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.
Larry Niven
#25. If 'Titanic' was one of our telenovelas, we would probably have added a pair of dolphins to save Jack at the end. We don't kill the good guy.
Emilio Azcarraga Jean
#26. (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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'
Carlton Cuse
#31. I actually cried during 'Titanic'. It was one of the few movies I've seen in the theater multiple times.
Jason Earles
#32. I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class.
Art Buchwald
#33. Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".
Stephen Covey
#34. 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
#35. Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack in 'Titanic' was my childhood crush!
Christa B. Allen
#36. 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
#37. But he was so great!' Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on a vacation
Greg Behrendt
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. When you look at movies like 'Titanic,' they make money because of women. They go to see it and bring their men, too.
David Ramsey
#41. 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
#42. When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish ... Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.
Orson Scott Card
#43. 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
#44. I only said 'Titanic' is unwatchable because one can not watch it.
Sidney Lumet
#45. I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.'
Agnetha Faltskog
#46. 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
#47. It was as though all the passengers on the Titanic were roped together, and the fattest guy had just fallen overboard.
Mitch Feierstein
#48. 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
#49. Ramona wasn't at home anywhere. She felt like a spy in life and the ending of every great book and each orgasm, and the sight of every homeless shopping bag lady infected her with a titanic yearning for the world to make an unscheduled stop.
Ann Druyan
#50. Something tells me if he thought you wanted the Titanic, he would retrieve it from the depths of the Atlantic for you.
Nicole Williams
#51. Carpe Diem, just remember that we're partying on the Titanic.
Will McIntosh
#52. The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.
Daniel Mendelsohn
#53. 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
#55. There wasn't a single good character in 'Titanic' who was English and this is typical.
David Warner
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg - and there simply aren't enough lifeboats to go round.
Nigel Farage
#61. 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
#62. I thought of Al in his dream, looking nothing like this, more like an elegant bat. Broken? Perhaps, but I had put his butterfly back together with my blood. "I never liked the movie Titanic," I said, and he grunted, his gaze sharpening on me. "They both could have gotten on that damn door.
Kim Harrison
#63. 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
#64. The rage inside him was titanic. How to keep from exploding? What a relief exploding was.
Jonathan Franzen
#65. It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic
I'll shut up.
Peter Greenaway
#66. 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
#67. I told Celine Dion not to record that 'Titanic' song. That's about as big as you can get. 'Flashdance?' I thought, 'Welder by day, disco dancer by night - who wants to see that?'
David Foster
#68. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Look, I'd sat through just as many Hollywood movies as the next person. I'd seen Sleepless in Seattle, Titanic, Twilight, whatever. I knew the myth. But i didn't believe it. I knew it was made up, I knew none of it was even close to reality.
Juniper Bell
#73. 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
#74. 'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'
Ranbir Kapoor
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. If it's only a kiss you want, I can kiss you with my clothes on." Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Blackthorn in "Titanic Rhasody.
Jina Bacarr
#78. Overriding everything else, the Titanic also marked the end of a general feeling of confidence.
Walter Lord
#79. If Kate Winslet had been the Duff, Leonardo DiCaprio wouldn't have been after her in Titanic and that could have saved all of us a lot of tears.
Kody Keplinger
#80. 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
#81. Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?!
Erma Bombeck
#82. I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#83. The clock in the wireless shack said 12:45 A.M. when the Titanic sent the first SOS call in history.
Walter Lord
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. With 'Titanic,' you have all the first-class passengers interwoven with wonderful stories about the maids and the engineers, the people downstairs in the galleys.
Sophie Winkleman
#87. 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.
Stephen Kinzer
#88. There are three huge, titanic, space movies which if you ever make a film [about space] you cannot avoid. You may want to avoid them but you cannot. I've never known a genre like it where you are dictated to by these films, 2001, Alien, and Tarkovsky's Solaris.
Danny Boyle
#89. '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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me.
Kate Winslet
#95. 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
#96. The sinking of the Titanic has made me indescribably happy; there is, after all, an ocean.
Alexander Blok
#97. Don't you think you're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?
William Vickrey
#98. 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
#99. 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.
Fay Wray
#100. Engaging with haters is like rearranging pictures on the Titanic. What's the point?
Jodi Picoult
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