Iceberg Quotes

“Percy was waiting for them. He looked mad.
He stood at the edge of the glacier, leaning on the staff with the golden eagle, gazing down at the wreckage he'd caused: several hundred acres of newly open water dotted with icebergs and flotsam from the ruined camp.
The only remains on the glacier were the main gates, which listed sideways, and a tattered blue banner lying over a pile of now-bricks.
When they ran up to him, Percy said, "Hey," like they were just meeting for lunch or something.
"You're alive!" Frank marveled.
Percy frowned. "The fall? That was nothing. I fell twice that far from the St. Louis Arch."
"You did what?" Hazel asked.
"Never mind. The important thing was I didn't drown.”
― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune

“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 ice-berg 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. A writer who appreciates the seriousness of writing so little that he is anxious to make people see he is formally educated, cultured or well-bred is merely a popinjay. And this too remember; a serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Success is like an iceberg. Nobody sees the work that comprises it.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer who comes, but the next writer must pay, always, a certain nominal percentage in experience to be able to understand and assimilate what is available as his birthright and what he must, in turn, take his departure from. 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 ice-berg 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. A writer who appreciates the seriousness of writing so little that he is anxious to make people see he is formally educated, cultured or well-bred is merely a popinjay. And this too remember; a serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

“This volume is dedicated to time.
It gives us memories, fine wine, and wrinkles.
But the only thing worse than getting old is not getting old.
So here's to time, dear reader, yours and mine.
May you have many more wrinkles, a lot of fine wine,
and memories to last two lifetimes.”
― Iceberg Slim, Airtight Willie & Me

“We are all tips of the iceberg.”
― Ashlecka Aumrivani

“People are like icebergs, you only see ten percent of them.”
― Jack Freestone

“That’s why we gotta do good things now. Make good decisions. Try to move the rudder long before the boat ever gets near the iceberg, right?”
― Chuck Wendig, Invasive

“A poet can imagine an iceberg singing a melancholic song while the world leaders find it difficult to imagine proper solution to global warming.”
― Munia Khan

“Tú misma dijiste que eras fuego. Pero contigo vale la pena quemarse.”
― Ariana Godoy, A través de ti

“Grief is like the flu, she said. It brushes by some, barely leaving its mark. For others, it will take hold, perhaps for a very long time before a person finds healing.
I barely dared to look over at her. Sometimes, the flu wins.”
― Jennifer Nielsen

“Truth is made only for one reason to be deep down in the ocean as for the top part, they should be the lies... this is the iceberg.”
― Deyth Banger

“Just as I’m about to continue walking along the shoreline, the left third of the iceberg breaks off suddenly and crashes violently, like a high-rise apartment building imploding in the heart of the city. Tears roll down my face uncontrollably as I watch the two distinct halves of the iceberg drift further and further apart from each other. It’s devastating to watch something that seems so strong and unbreakable crumble in an instant. Even more devastating is the feeling that there’s nothing I can do about it.”
― Shannon M Mullen, See What Flowers

“My heart is like an iceberg, an ice shelf floating freely and only a small portion is visible to the human eye, but on fire. Beautiful and cold, yet warm, and even the strongest structure could break if experience didn’t teach there are depth and strength that hides so cleverly beneath the surface.”
― Kristin Michelle Elizabeth

“Knowledge is the tip of the iceberg whereas wisdom is the entire iceberg.”
― Steven Magee

“Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity is the tip of the iceberg whereas sickness and disease is the entire iceberg.”
― Steven Magee

“Did the iceberg interrupt the titanic?”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, Journal 64

“I realized during researching Electromagnetic Hyper-Sensitivity (EHS) that it was just the tip of a very large iceberg of wireless radiation induced human health issues.”
― Steven Magee

“George Floyd is the tip of a very large iceberg of government corruption.”
― Steven Magee

“The Boeing 737 Max 9 is just the tip of an iceberg of problems the USA airline industry has.”
― Steven Magee

“The iceberg model highlights why we cannot judge a new culture purely on what we see. Instinctively, we know there's more to a situation than we initially perceive... It is essential to take time to uncover the beliefs that underline behavior.”
― Gaiti Rabbani, Curious About Culture: Refocus your lens on culture to cultivate cross cultural understanding