Walter Lord Quotes

"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
(Related: Funny, People, Research, Today)

"You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect."
- Walter Lord
(Related: People, Measure, Study)

"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
(Related: People, Talking, Want, Years)

"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
(Related: Courage)

"I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing."
- Walter Lord
(Related: Writing)

"Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future."
- Walter Lord
(Related: Events, Future)

"Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake."
- Walter Lord
(Related: Birthday)

"It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed."
- Walter Lord
(Related: People, Fact, Fancy, Heroes, Poor)