Quotes About Titanic

The British 'A Night to Remember' is so beautifully done and so well-constructed.

The Titanic woke them up. Never again would they be quite so sure of themselves. In technology especially, the disaster was a terrible blow. Here was the "unsinkable ship" -- perhaps man's greatest engineering achievement -- going down the first time it sailed. But it went beyond that. If this supreme achievement was so terribly fragile, what about everything else? If wealth mean so little on this cold April night, did it mean so much the rest of the year?

The night was a magnificent confirmation of "women and children first," yet somehow the loss rate was higher for Third Class children than First Class men.

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

Try and get off with Major Butt

The bulkhead between the fifth and sixth compartments went only as high as E Deck. If the first five compartments were flooded, the bow would sink so low that water in the fifth compartment must overflow into the sixth. When this was full, it would overflow into the seventh, and so on. It was a mathematical certainty, pure and simple. There was no way out.

Mrs. George Widener was met not by automobile but by a special train—consisting of a private Pullman, another car for ballast, and a locomotive.

The Titanic somehow lowered the curtain on this way of living. It never was the same again. First the war, then the income tax, made sure of that.

We honeymooned on the SS Franklin," Max said. "We were the onboard entertainment even though it was Millie's first time onstage. When I saw this house for sale a couple years later, I knew we had to have it." "It reminds me of the Titanic," Nicole said under her breath. "Post-iceberg. Assuming it had mowed down a flock of flamingos first.

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.

My mind is like the Titanic, to many brain cells for the life boats.

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?

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

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

My biggest crush when I was 13 was Leonardo DiCaprio. After I watched 'Titanic' I was completely in love with him.

I'd been to Chelsea Piers a few times over the years. It's a series of buildings constructed on four adjoining piers where the West 20s meet the Hudson River. Back in the early part of the twentieth century, it had been a thriving part of the riverfront, where some of the great ships docked in between their transatlantic crossings. In fact, according to a sign posted there, the Titanic had been destined to dock at

mammoth off their

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.

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.

So all those buttons are different restaurants?" I asked, looking at the jukebox, now totally out of place, like a British police call box on the deck of the Titanic.

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.

He was colossal (apparently they felt behemoth was easier to spell).

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?

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