A movie is like
A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie. Almost everything gets left behind. Errol Morris
Iceberg
There is seven-eights of
There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn’t show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story. Ernest Hemingway
Icebergs behoove the soul
Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible. Elizabeth Bishop
The big icebergs that
The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp, low reef extending two or three hundred feet beneath the sea is formed. If a vessel should run on one of these reefs half her bottom might be torn away. Edward Smith
I\\’m an Irish Catholic
I’m an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt. Edna O’Brien
Everything – a bird,
Everything – a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being – is ultimately unknowable. This is because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg. Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected … Read more
Nothing is safe from
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 … Read more
Is it not clear
Is it not clear that a reviewer’s psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface? Delmore Schwartz
I will love you
I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms. Daniel Handler
Lendl has remained throughout
Lendl has remained throughout as calm as the proverbial iceberg. Dan Maskell