Iceberg Quotes - Page 5

• The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp, low reef extending two or three hundred feet beneath the sea is formed. If a vessel should run on one of these reefs half her bottom might be torn away.

  Edward Smith

  Running, Sea, Two

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• There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Water, Doe, Stories

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• Barack Obama volunteered to be the Captain of the Titanic AFTER it hit the iceberg

  Van Jones

  Captains, Barack

  Van Jones (2013). “Rebuild the Dream”, p.32, Nation Books

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