Walter Lord

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake. ↗

— Walter Lord

#brilliantly #cake #like #lit #looked

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future. ↗

— Walter Lord

#events #future #guide #much #provide

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations. ↗

— Walter Lord

#extraordinary #highly #i #involving #look

I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing. ↗

— Walter Lord

#earned #i #never #somehow #through

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. ↗

— Walter Lord

#doing #funny #funny thing #i #more

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage. ↗

— Walter Lord

#intellectual #just #me #once #personal

There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it. ↗

— Walter Lord

#although #couple #even #exceptions #families

You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect. ↗

— Walter Lord

#expect #measure #ones #people #study