Top 110 Iceberg Quotes & Sayings

The digital and physical worlds are starting to come together more seamlessly - it's only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what's coming.

Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface?

Lendl has remained throughout as calm as the proverbial iceberg.

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

Just because you see an iceberg does not mean that there isn't global warming.

The successes in the entertainment business are like one percent of the iceberg that you see, and the other ninety-nine percent, which is the rejection and the failure and the work and the toil and the sacrifice, is the rest of the iceberg that's below the water.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

If Mark Henry was the Titanic, the iceberg would've sank!

It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

Unbelievable as it may seem, one-third of all vegetables consumed in the United States come from just three sources: french fries, potato chips, and iceberg lettuce.

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

Journalists often ask me when I go to the field, 'What do you expect to find?' And my answer always is, 'The unexpected,' because we're just looking at the tip of the iceberg; we've just scratched the surface.

It's what's available to the poor communities. They do buy healthy stuff, you know, but the lettuce is usually iceberg lettuce and to get any taste, they have to use all that ranch dressing.

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

Things that are interesting, people will pass around the Internet, around the world. And the blogosphere is only the tip of the iceberg.

Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.

I think we ought to take Al Gore, put him on an iceberg, and put him way out there.

What we do and accomplish is only the tip of the iceberg of what's possible for us.

Police violence is the tip of the iceberg when it relates to the conditions overall of black people across the globe.

Despite its widespread acceptance and the number of lives it has improved, what most of us in the West commonly associate with yoga represents only the tip of the iceberg that is yoga, a tiny fraction of what is a vast and profound science.

What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.

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.

The bestseller list is the tip of the iceberg.

Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related.

Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place.

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.

What I'm doing on stage now is just the tip of the iceberg.

I'm fascinated with acting now. In retrospect, I was only beginning to chip off the tip of the iceberg with how far I can go or what I was exploring inside of me that I hadn't touched in a while as far as emotional headspaces.

Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.

The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.

I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long haul: all the endless auditing and things like that.

The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg - and there simply aren't enough lifeboats to go round.

The attacks on old words and the coining of new are the visible tip of the iceberg of change.

Power is no more than a part, no more than the tip of the iceberg of limitless profundity and sublimate of Karate.

O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control! O for a vale that at midday the dew cumbers! O for a pleasure trip up to the pole!

First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little.

In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's trees or stones or water or animals or stars, everything has an ineffable interior quality.

Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.

Not every story in history has a beginning, a middle and an end, but the wreck of the Titanic does. It begins when they leave, in the middle it hits an iceberg, and in the final two hours, the ship sinks.

The Titanic hit the iceberg not because they could not see it coming but because they could not change direction.

I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.

Nothing is safe from you. If I were to court a girl who lived on an iceberg in the middle of the ocean, sooner or later— probably sooner— I’d look up to see you swooping overhead on a broomstick. In fact, by now I’d be disappointed in you if I didn’t see you.” “Are you off to the iceberg today?” Sophie retorted.

What's hurting the U.S. economy is total government spending. The deficit is an indicator that the government is spending so much money that it can't even get around to stealing all of the money that it wants to spend. But the tip of the iceberg is not what hit the Titanic - it was the 90 percent of the iceberg under water.

The vast majority of psychopaths, like an iceberg, are underwater, and like an iceberg, they are inert. They do nothing. They're just there. They torment their spouse by being unempathic, but they don't beat her or kill her. They bully coworkers, but they don't burn the office. They are not dramatic. They are pernicious. Most psychopaths are subtle. They are more like poison than a knife, and they are more like slow-working poison than cyanide.

He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.

Salad can get a bad rap. People think of bland and watery iceberg lettuce, but in fact, salads are an art form, from the simplest rendition to a colorful kitchen-sink approach.

Whats in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.

Private prison companies are now listed on the New York Stock exchange and are doing quite well in a time of economic recession (and depression in some communities). But that's just the tip of the iceberg.

our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments.

If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie.

You think about acting kind of as an iceberg where you've got that 5% that you see... but in order to have that 5%... you have to have another 95%.

The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!

In real life, when you have an emotional experience, it's never just because of the thing that's been said. There's the backstory. It's like [Ernest] Hemingway's iceberg theory - the current emotional moment is the tip of the iceberg and all of the past is the seven-eighths of the iceberg that's underwater.

What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know

English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Google Earth is an incredible resource because from hundreds of miles in space, we can zoom in, and we can find things. Everyone always looks for their house first. That is the tip of the iceberg with remote sensing.