Terry Pratchett Quotes

set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts

I was absolutely obsessed with the Titanic - not the film, the actual boat. I'd draw diagrams about it and theorise that if it was built in a different way, it wouldn't have sunk.

The captain of the Titanic, who said to room service, Who sent for all this ice? Never got a dinner!

The Titanic will protect itself.

There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was designed, the emphasis was placed on surviving a head-on collision.

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.

I know a lot about the Titanic. My dad was a Titanic expert.

I got into history when I was 11 years old, and it all started with the Titanic. I'd read books in the library about it. Of course I've seen the movie, too - I don't think I've ever cried that much.

I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.

I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.

It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea to be on it.

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.

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

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.

The Lusitania is a monument to this optimism, to the hubris of the era. I love that, because where there is hubris, there is tragedy.

I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

Jack: Rose! You're so stupid. Why did you do that, huh? You're so stupid, Rose. Why did you do that? Why? Rose: You jump, I jump, right? Jack: Right. Rose: Oh God! I couldn't go. I couldn't go, Jack. Jack: It's all right. We'll think of something. Rose: At least I'm with you.

I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was sink. When it took off from England, all kinds of passengers were aboard - millionaires, celebrities, people of moderate means, and poor folks down in the steerage. But a few hours later when they put the list in the Cunard office in New York, it carried only two categories - lost and saved. Grim tragedy had leveled all distinctions.

Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe!

Rose: But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me... in every way that a person can be saved

She gave me this look – she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around.

You don't do anything to further your stay aboard a ship that you see is going to go down to the bottom of the ocean.

There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship.

The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.

But he was so great!' Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on a vacation