Walter Lord Quotes

American - Author October 8, 1917 - May 19, 2002

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

Birthday Cake Like She Brilliantly Lit Looked Stem Stern

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.

Alone Future Events Guide Provide Rarely Much

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

You People Always Measure Expect Study Up

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

Never Writing Through Dollar Earned Somehow

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

People Look Something Extraordinary Caught Highly Involving Ordinary Ordinary People Ordinary Situations Situations Unusual

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.

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.

Funny Today People Research Aware Funny Thing Titanic Doing More Much Than Thing Were

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