Ocean Liner Quotes

What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.

I'm really - there's more of a chance that I stay on the Titanic than - than I go on, you know, on a Donald Trump boat.

The Titanic will protect itself.

For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.

set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts

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

The stock market is like a small row boat on a rough sea, bouncing around as it drifts, whereas the macro economy is like a large ocean liner, very ponderous and difficult to maneuver but without such a rough journey.

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.

Rose: You're crazy. Jack: That's what everybody says but, with all due respect, Miss, I'm not the one hanging off the back of a ship here. Come on. C'mon, give me your hand. You don't want to do this.

A cruise ship is a floating town of lazy people.

The seasick passenger on an ocean liner detests the good sailor who stalks past him 265 times a day grandly smoking a large, greasy cigar. In precisely the same way the democrat hates the man who is having a better time in the world. This is the origin of democracy. It is also the origin of Puritanism.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!

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.

I don't like cruises. Period. My biggest nightmare is being stuck on a boat.

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.

You can find tranquility, you can find party, you can find new friends. I'm a cruise convert.

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.

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