Best Catchy Quotes

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.

When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?

I remember laughing when we made those slogans up [about abortion]. . . . We were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans to capture public opinion. They were very cynical slogans then, just as all of these slogans today are very, very cynical.

I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like ‘bootylicious.’

And for our fans, they’re just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, ‘What’s wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.

When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don’t even know how the writing even began. To me, it’s work that is kind of invisible; it’s a weird kind of work to have because you’re not working, but it’s not not work. Formulating your thoughts and making a melody that’s catchy enough for people to listen to what you’re saying is really hard!

God save me from myself.

Do things sound better in your head before you say them, or do you even run them through there first?

Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.

Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn’t expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.

I think that a good song is catchy, and a great song is not catchy – but it has a deeper meaning.

We’ve always had a lot of different influences and we’ve always liked catchy music from the Beatles to Cheap Trick to Elvis Costello.

Seldom do we experience the charisma and character of a dynamic personality such as Lou Holtz, the very successful former football coach of Notre Dame. Lou has left his distinctive mark of success everywhere he has coached. Winning Every Day is not just a catchy phrase, but with Coach Holtz, a way of life.

Actions lie louder than words.

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.

David’s [Cunningham] a very interesting character. He has more integrity than is good for him. So, everything he did after that sort of undermined what he’d done. Other people who kind of took life more cheaply, would have really gone for it. David almost did everything he could to scupper the whole thing, which I very much admire, but of course it was deeply irritating then, because we wanted to make a bit of money! So we made this very catchy tune and then he added a bunch of weird stuff which was all very strange.

There is a false love that will make you something you are not.

That culture, of looking at catchy music as a negative thing, is weird. It has nothing to do with me, or the music I was into growing up. The Stones and the Beatles only tried to write hits. Every Motown song, every Credence Clearwater song – they were trying to write hits.

False hope is nicer than no hope at all.

Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

Our work on light bulbs wasn’t an arbitrary mandate. We didn’t just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.

Lyrics have got to be simple and catchy. A hook is more important than an overall concept or story.

No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.

I went to my old school, where all the kids I’d been with for eight years were about to graduate. But the sisters wanted me to repeat the whole term; so I went to the principal and pleaded with her to allow me to graduate with my class. She finally agreed on the condition that I write the graduation play. It was called How Do You Spend Your Leisure Time?Catchy title, huh?

A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer’s just a vessel that must follow where it goes.

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.