Catchy Phrases Quotes & Sayings

Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute. — Flannery O'Connor

If I have a day off I will play golf. — Dean Norris

There is a reason that both have had the longevity in their careers that they have had. They have each done very different things throughout their careers and lived really interesting lives. There is a reason why they are up there still. After all, there is only one Barbra Streisand and one Liza Minnelli. — Sarah Brightman

The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in ... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking. — Charlton Heston

Unfortunately, science cannot be reduced to short, catchy phrases. And if this is all that the general public can comprehend, it's no wonder that we spend so much of our time in the interminable debate about belief in God, or lack thereof. — Greg Graffin

He cut away the insignificant and incidental. Those bits were tossed
away from the juicy core pieces. He slid the excess tissue and tendons away and reorganized the good bits on his plate. Those pieces were translated into words and catchy phrases and assembled like a new life. — Jeffry R. Halverson

You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war. — Jodie Evans

You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in. — Colin Powell

They were interchangeable tools, and the catchy phrases continued without abatement. — Robert A. Caro

The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason. — Robert Lowell

Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too. — Miranda Cosgrove

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God — John Calvin

At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent. — Khaled Hosseini

Ric Flair is one of the most entertaining guys to sit down with and by entertaining I don't mean he has catchy phrases, but that he's been through so much and his experiences are so genuine I could listen to him talk all day. — John Cena

Life, basically, is a nightmare until you learn to control the dream. — Rebecca Ore

Professional communications had always been about the attempt to generate memes, to make a message viral; abnorms just took that to a higher level. Back when he'd been a DAR agent, Cooper had read a brief arguing memetics was the most dangerous gift. As politicians had long known, people preferred short, catchy answers to complex ones, even if the short answers were oversimplified to the point of ridiculousness. Phrases like "old-world thinking" could be as devastating as a bomb, and much farther ranging. — Marcus Sakey

Modern man is full of platitudes about living life to its fullest, with catchy keychain phrases and little plaques for kitchen walls. But if you've never retreated to the solitude of a dark room and listened to Beethoven's Ninth from start to finish, you know nothing. For music is a transcendental exploration of human emotion and experience, the very fabric of life in its purest form. And the Ninth our greatest musical achievement. — Tiffany Madison

The truly perfect pangram would contain all the letters of the alphabet in the right order, but the only thing that achieves that is the alphabet. There are phrases that use fewer characters, but they are not as catchy. And this is not for want of trying. Here are two of the shortest: 'Quick wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim.' 'Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow. — Simon Garfield

You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, sir. — Martin Routh