Quotes About Titanic

Walker Banks," Jade said. "Marlow. Jesus fuck, what took you?" "I just got the job seven hours ago." "What took them?" "The FBI, Warden. Moving at the speed of bureaucracy." "No shit. I got a stack of papers on my desk could sink the Titanic." "The Titanic is sunk." "My point, Marlow. My point.

In the case of the living, the Register carefully ran the phrase, 'Arrived Titan-Carpath , April 18, 1912.' The hyphen represented history's greatest sea disaster.

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.

Sufficiently perverse and titanic arseholes," he said, "can become religious objects. Negative saints. People who dislike them, with sufficient purity and fervor, well, they do that. Spend their lives lighting candles. I don't recommend it.

Don't ever question the value of volunteers. Noah's Ark was built by volunteers; the Titanic was built by professionals.

For the launch ceremony, there was no beribboned champagne bottle to smash against the bow and no titled dowager to pronounce "I name this ship Titanic." That was not how White Star did things. Instead, at five minutes past noon, a rocket was fired into the air, followed by two others, and then the nearly 26,000-ton hull began to slide into the River Lagan to cheers and the blowing of tug whistles.

Morgan was no doubt pleased that Millet was sailing on the maiden voyage of the Titanic. He had planned to be on board himself before changing his plans in favor of a stay at a spa at Aix-les-Bains with his mistress.

In New York, the city was in the grip of Titanic fever. Flags flew at half-staff, the Henry Harris theaters were dark, and even Macy's department store had closed out of respect for Isidor and Ida Straus. Police had been called in to control the crowds in front of the White Star office at 9 Broadway.

In London similar scenes played out as names were posted at Oceanic House, White Star's London office, near Trafalgar Square. Southampton was the hardest-hit city of all since that was where most of the crew and victualing staff lived—of whom only 212 out of 885 had survived.

In America, the Titanic is often described as a cross-section of the Gilded Age, an era of rapid industrialization and wealth creation in the United States that began in the 1870s and ended with the introduction of income taxes in 1913 and the outbreak of World War I the following year.

In April, God speaks to us in the seas whose rhythmic murmuring fills our ears from a long way off. It was in April that the Titanic went down into the deep to lie like a slasher's victim, bleeding the 'debris field' - its passengers' personal possessions, the everyday things of everyman and everywoman - across the ocean's floor.

Lightning struck, a hawk cried in fury, and then a goddamned grizzly bear fell out of the night sky and onto Ethniu's head. Don't care how Titanic you are. No one expects an orbital-drop grizzly.

Don't care how Titanic you are. No one expects an orbital-drop grizzly.

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

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

That sounded so incredibly romantic. Of course, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet had thought the same thing in Titanic . And look how that had ended.

Engaging with haters is like rearranging pictures on the Titanic.

the crew of the Titanic didn't fire the correct distress signals after the ship's collision with the iceberg - instead they released flares at random. The message sent by the rockets was supposed to say 'distress' but in fact it signalled 'I'm having navigation problems; please stay clear'.

According to some reports, the crew of the Titanic didn't fire the correct distress signals after the ship's collision with the iceberg - instead they released flares at random. The message sent by the rockets was supposed to say 'distress' but in fact it signalled 'I'm having navigation problems; please stay clear'.

Titanic as it sank into the icy sea? Would you prefer that the men leap ahead of you into the lifeboats, leave you and your children to die?" Alva answered without pause. "If a woman had designed the ship in the first place, there would have been enough lifeboats for everyone.

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

Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.

No matter how much water a sink takes on, it never lives up to its name. The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.

God's love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic, His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost.25