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• 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

  Ice, Snow, Giving

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• If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Water, Feelings

  Death in the Afternoon ch. 16 (1932)

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• I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

  Edna O'Brien

  Long, Catholic, Guilt

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• Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.

  Terence McKenna

  Reality, Sea, Moments

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• The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.

  Bob Woodward

  Tip Of The Iceberg, Maps, Scandal

  "Readers recommend: songs about scandal" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2015.

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• Whats in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.

  Natasha Richardson

  Tip Of The Iceberg, Shots

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• In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the 'imaginary' level of the ego, which is no more than the tip of the iceberg of the human subject known to psychoanalysis. The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed, never identical with itself, strung out along the chains of the discourses which constitute it.

  Terry Eagleton

  Self, Ego, Would Be

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.147, John Wiley & Sons

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• Lendl has remained throughout as calm as the proverbial iceberg.

  Dan Maskell

  Tennis, Calm, Proverbial

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• They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science.

  Karl Pilkington

  Ocean, Simple, Sea

  "3 Minute Wonder", Episode 4, www.pilkipedia.co.uk. August 17, 2006.

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• The most amazing moments are when something horrible is about to happen or has just happened. The iceberg falling into the ocean. That aching moment. You can see the pieces, you can see how they fit together, but you can't put them back together.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Ocean, Fall, Together

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sound is ephemeral, fleeting, but some sort of a physical manifestation can help you hold on to it longer in time. I'm sure of this; I've always thought the sound that you make is just the tip of the iceberg, like the person that you see physically is just the tip of the iceberg as well.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Sound, Tip Of The Iceberg, Fleeting

  "The Big Interview: Yo-Yo Ma pays back his debt to Toronto", by Richard Ouzounian, www.thestar.com. May 25, 2012.

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• By fundamentally changing how we design the places and systems that enable our daily lives, we can slash emissions way beyond the immediate carbon savings - because our own personal emissions are just the tip of a vast iceberg of energy and resources consumed far from our view.

  Alex Steffen

  Views, Design, Energy

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• If Mark Henry was the Titanic, the iceberg would've sank!

  Jerry Lawler

  Mark, Ifs

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• First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Writing, Firsts, Details

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• You'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Tears, Amazed

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.526, Macmillan

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• I'm fascinated with genetic science, and I have been for a very long time. I always look at science and technology because I think that the developments in my lifetime have been so remarkable - and we're only at the tip of the iceberg with projects like decoding the human genome.

  Nick Rhodes

  Technology, Thinking, Long

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• I recommend allowing others the opportunity to fully express themselves before turning our attention to solutions or requests for relief. When we proceed too quickly to what people might be requesting, we may not convey our genuine interest in their feelings and needs; instead, they may get the impression that we're in a hurry to either be free of them or to fix their problem. Furthermore, an initial message is often like the tip of an iceberg; it may be followed by yet unexpressed, but related - and often more powerful - feelings.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Powerful, Opportunity, People

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• There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The danger is a plan that seduces us into thinking failure is impossible and adaptation is unnecessary - a kind of ‘Titanic' plan, unsinkable (until it hits the iceberg).

  Tim Harford

  Thinking, Enemy, Firsts

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• In real life, when you have an emotional experience, it's never just because of the thing that's been said. There's the backstory. It's like [Ernest] Hemingway's iceberg theory - the current emotional moment is the tip of the iceberg and all of the past is the seven-eighths of the iceberg that's underwater.

  George Saunders

  Real, Past, Emotional

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Zombie, Made, Ifs

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• Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.

  Rumer Godden

  People, Hurtful, Three

  Rumer Godden (2011). “The Greengage Summer”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• Every day huge amounts of information break off like icebergs and melt away. What worries me is that much information in electronic form is never reduced to paper. Some people have described this as being on the edge of a digital Dark Age and fear we may commit a massive act of amnesia.

  Paul Saffo

  Dark, Break Off, Worry

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The attacks on old words and the coining of new are the visible tip of the iceberg of change.

  Michelene Wandor

  Tip Of The Iceberg, Visible

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• What I'm doing on stage now is just the tip of the iceberg.

  Reggie Watts

  Tip Of The Iceberg, Stage

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.

  Jodi Picoult

  Character, Talking, Tip Of The Iceberg

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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