#iceberg

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#above #appears #bulk #icebergs #like

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#book #bumped #cape #dead #desert

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

— Sigmund Freud

#bulk #floats #iceberg #like #mind

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

— Edna O'Brien

#guilt #i #iceberg #irish #irish catholic

The basic thing a man should know is how to change a tyre and how to drive a tractor. Whatever that bearded dude is doing on the Dos Equis beer commercials sets the bar. That's your guy. Every man should be aiming to be like him. The beard is just the tip of the iceberg. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#bar #basic #beard #bearded #beer

I'll travel the sub-zero tundra I'll brave glaciers and frozen lakes And that's just the tip of the iceberg I'll do whatever it takes To change ↗

— Owl City

#the-tip-of-the-iceberg #change

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything. ↗

— Jack Vance

#everything #i #iceberg #just #read

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. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#deep #his #iceberg #just #kind

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

#above #being #dignity #due #enough

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. ↗

— John Barrow

#comes #competing #game #iceberg #market