Iceberg Quotes
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He is a theater animal who is ignited by his synergy with an audience. Audiences are only beginning to see the tip of the iceberg of what Nathan can do.
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More Iceberg Quotes
The ship's ignored.The iceberg rises and sinks again; its glassy pinnacles correct elliptics in the sky. This is a scene where he who treads the boards is artlessly rhetorical.
Elizabeth Bishop— 1946 'The Imaginary Iceberg'.
Proves she like some portent of an iceberg Swimming full upon the ship it founders Hungry with huge teeth of splintered crystals?
Robert Browning— 1855 Men and Women,'One Word More. To E.B.B.', stanza17.
"The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg - and there simply aren't enough lifeboats to go round."
nigel farage— Segment from a speech held in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, 13 June 2012
— YouTube video
"He is a little genius. He's a deep soul and a spirit man. I think we've only seen the tip of the iceberg [with 2010's Flamingo]."
brandon flowers— Daniel Lanois, S. V. L. (November 12, 2010). Entertainment Weekly (1128):76
Twenty-eight years ago, I created my first game on an Apple II in my bedroom closet at a time when the interactive entertainment industry was taking its first baby steps. Today the games business has grown to a multi-billion dollar industry and we are just at the tip of the iceberg. I'm thrilled to have been a part of this successful journey and I'm extremely honored by the Academy's Hall of Fame induction.
richard garriott— Press Statement for the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame, 9 November, 2005.
If a writer … knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows…. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
ernest hemingway— As quoted in A Second Flowering (1973) by Malcolm Cowley
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— Literary Theory: An Introduction (2011, pg. 147)
In the Congress as a whole-both House and Senate-the enhanced role of money in the re-election process, coupled with the sharply diminished role for reasoned deliberation and debate, has produced an atmosphere conducive to pervasive institutionalized corruption. The Abramoff scandal is but the tip of a giant iceberg that threatens the integrity of the entire legislative branch of government.
al gore— Martin Luther King Day address, Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C. (16 January 2006)
The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg eight ninths below the water line, one ninth above.
aldous huxley— The Controller, Mustapha Mond, in Ch. 16
All tip and no iceberg.
paul keating— Referring to Treasurer Peter Costello, ABC Radio interview, March 5, 2007.
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 (2011) Literary Theory: An Introduction. p. 147
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, in The Big Interview: Yo-Yo Ma pays back his debt to Toronto
It was 11:45 at night according to ship’s time when the Titanic grazed along the iceberg that would send it to the ocean bed.
steve turner— The Band That Played On, by Thomas Nelson (2011, p. 137).
