Catchy Quotes

Who's this?" Dad asks when a catchy tune comes on the CD mix I made for the trip. We pass the skeleton tree that never has leaves, no matter what the time of year. Bare gray branches wave us on. "No one you know Dad," I say. It's me. ~ Cath Crowley

Most advertisers spend millions upon millions of dollars to buy commercial time during the Super Bowl, and millions in creating eye-popping ads, hoping to create catchy, unforgettable commercials. Unfortunately, most Super Bowl commercials end up being unmemorable. Costly mistakes for brands and creative flameouts for advertising firms. ~ Peter Diamandis

If you can laugh at yourself, you are going to be fine. If you allow others to laugh with you, you will be great. ~ Martin Niemoller

I think they'd barely recognize us as brothers and sisters. If we told them, church is on Sundays, and we have an awesome band...if the found out 1/6th of the earth's population claimed to be Christians, I'm not sure they could reconcile the suffering happening on our watch while we're living in excess...

But listen, early church, we have a monthly event called 'Mocha chicks', we have choir practice every Wednesday, we organize retreats with door prizes, we're raising $3 million for an outdoor amphitheater, we have catchy t-shirts, we don't smoke or say the f-word, we go to bible study every semester...

the local church would be the heartbeat of the city. ~ Jen Hatmaker

And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths. ~ Leonard Cohen

If we can so easily remember catchy lyrics and memorable movie lines, how much more should we seek to remember the precious words of our Lord and Savior? ~ Wendy Blight

I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.' ~ Beyonce Knowles

Writing catchy pop songs is a super-minor superpower, but it's mine. ~ J.C. Lillis

Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage. ~ J.D. Salinger

There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think there's thousands of good songs in the world - the songs that we can all sing along to, songs that are just so catchy they end up being in your head. But I think a great song is something that emotionally engages with you and connects with you. ~ Ella Henderson

Those who gossip with you will gossip about you. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and we used the phrase just for the Happening, to have a catchy name for it; and then it immediately got taken up and brought into use. There's no defence against that - and really it's no bad thing. ~ Gerhard Richter

I love what Chris & Katy are bringing to the table with Coal Train Railroad. It makes ME feel like a kid again! I think children of all ages will love the humor, silliness and the catchy, cool, and crazy music that reminds us all that music should be fun to listen to. I'm honored (and slightly tickled) to be part of this wonderful project. Thanks! ~ Jeff Coffin

I love all of these new products that are coming out, things like headphones with cute, catchy names. There is also so much going on with the marketing of fashion. And then, I still love the classic stuff, like great dresses and wonderful photography. ~ Stephanie Seymour

Don't miss out on today by living in yesterday. ~ Joyce Meyer

Everything needs to be catchy because a listener is either going to stay with the song or lose interest in the first five seconds. But people also like those songs they can relate to and say, 'Yeah, I went through that.' ~ Benny Blanco

Not only is a good name catchy and memorable, it should help people understand what your business does. If your name reflects your products or services you'll have a much better chance of being found [via Google search], so it's important to choose wisely. ~ Lori Greiner

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

I could get a T-shirt that says 'All in for Week 4 of the Preseason.' That's not quite as catchy, and I don't have an endorsement deal with an apparel company. Maybe someone will sign me now. I don't make enough money to get fined. Maybe I'll get a deal with some off-brand or something that sells at Walmart or something. ~ Kirk Cousins

I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music. You might hear a song with a catchy beat, but what's it about? It's not empowering or helping anyone. ~ Jennifer Hudson

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

When I talk about Legacy, Foundation, Purpose, these aren't just catchy titles I pulled out of nowhere for my book. These are principles that molded me. ~ Carlos Wallace

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Political marketing...plays to people's emotions, not their thoughts. It operates on the belief that repeating a catchy phrase, even if it's untrue, will seal an idea in the mind of the unknowing or uncaring public. It assumes that citizens will always choose on the basis of their individual wants and not society's needs. It divides the country into "niche" markets and abandons the hard political work of knitting together broad consensus or national vision ~ Susan Delacourt

I normally don't love green juices, but Body & Eden makes theirs tasty by blending ingredients like avocado and banana with the usual suspects like kale and spinach. Delicious as they are, they're low calorie, and the drink names are catchy: I Have Balance, I Have Energy, and my favorite, I Have Calm. ~ Gayle King

The past stays put, I just keep moving farther away from it. ~ Thomas Jefferson

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. ~ Fred Upton

I was always into pop music, Destiny's Child, songs with catchy music. Even when I was writing when I was younger, it wasn't all about expressing myself; it was just about making fun music. ~ Eliza Doolittle

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

Okay. Look, why don't you take care of the half a million things you've been letting dangle in Roarke's Empire of Everything?"
"Catchy title. I may use it one day. ~ J.D. Robb

I'm a sucker for a catchy song, and dance music. That's my sweet spot. ~ Hilary Duff

Actions lie louder than words. ~ Carolyn Wells

The interesting question would be whether there's a Darwinian process, a kind of selection process whereby some memes are more likely to spread than others, because people like them, because they're popular, because they're catchy or whatever it might be. ~ Richard Dawkins

You know what, I am not gonna lie, that Taylor Swift 'Trouble' song? I can't resist that song. Her melodies are very catchy. ~ Jacob Artist

My favorite records are by bands where the musicians are all playing like themselves, but those personalities connect in an exciting way and create music that is one cohesive unit. It's not catchy like a pop song, but it's a really cool song. ~ Dylan Baldi

Don't let your life wait for other people. ~ Martin Niemoller

It was catchy though. The show wasn't. It was like Lamb Chop's Play-Along on acid but without the endearing weirdness of acid. ~ Karina Halle

The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable. ~ OMI

'Paper Planes' by M.I.A. is very catchy. I like that, but I listen to everything from rap to Lenny Kravitz to Coldplay, depending on my mood. And my favorite song of all time is 'Always and Forever' by Heatwave. ~ Keshia Knight Pulliam

No matter what they tell you, no matter what they do, no matter what they teach you, what you believe is true. ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber

Wakey wakey eggs and bacey! ~ Jayson James

Bear hence this body and attend our will. Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. ~ William Shakespeare

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

Personally, I think 'Dead Americans' is the best title I have, but you can't win with everyone. Titles have to be short, catchy, not too obscure, not offensive, and still capture the genre, and so on and so forth. Takeshi Kitano has it about right when he says he'd just like to title his films by number. ~ Ben Peek

It's my fault but the most violating thing I've felt this year is not the media exaggerations or the catchy gossip, but the rape of my personal thoughts. ~ Kurt Cobain

polite conversation is rarely either ~ Fran Lebowitz

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

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

A brick could be used to sway the voters. But if you really want to sway them, try using a catchy song. ~ Jarod Kintz

Democrats suck at coming up with catchy propaganda slogans, because they don't think like Nazis. ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

The right side of the screen then shows a close-up of the protestors. There are only about thirty of them, but Gods bless them they're energetic. And they have catchy picket signs, like: "Set the dragon-people free!" and "Dragons are people, too!" and "End Racial Segregation! Again! ~ Sarah Nicolas

In New Orleans, bounce music was prevalent. That was all they wanted to hear. It was new and trendy, and it was hot, and it was taking off. Artists were coming out of everywhere. They did some great songs, some really catchy, fun songs. That was just the feel of New Orleans music. ~ Mystikal

God save me from myself. ~ Billy Wilder

It is perhaps one of those imponderables of life that many people declare their dislike for poetry, yet it surrounds us in the lyrics of the songs and hymns we love, the catchy advertising jingles, in picture books, and remembered snippets from Shakespeare or remembered and much loved verses. " Jeanette O'Hagan 1 May 2017 ~ Jeanette O'Hagan

If you two are starting a detective agency, I want in," said Selene, adjusting her ball cap.

"Well, duh," said Eli, beaming at her.

"And we're going to need a name," Selene said. "Something good and catchy."

"You're right." Eli scratched his chin. "How about the Arkwell Detective Agency. The A.D.A."

Selene wrinkled her nose. "Sounds too much like a chemical or something."

"What about Booker and Associates?"

I rolled my eyes. "It's not all about you, you know?"

Eli grinned. "Says who?"

"I think we should call it Selene Investigations."

"No, Nightmare Investigations."

"Dreamer Investigations."

"The Dream Team."

"How about Magic Eyes? You know, like private eyes, only for magic."

"Corny much? ~ Mindee Arnett

Will looked at Evie funny. "Advertising?"
"Yes. You've heard of it, haven't you? Swell modern invention. It lets people know about something they need. Soap, lipstick, radios - or your museum, for instance. We could start with a catchy slogan, like, 'The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult - we've got the spirit! ~ Libba Bray

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

The latest literature says we're supposed to call them "post-Kellis-Amberlee amplification manifestation syndrome humans," but fuck that. If they really wanted some fancy new term for "zombie" to catch on, they should have made it easy to shout at the top of your lungs, or at least made sure it formed a catchy acronym ~ Mira Grant

The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand, enjoy music they can improve by making up filthy new lyrics. ~ Rob Sheffield

I operate in such a vacuum. I write by myself, it's a very solitary experience, and I'm not used to, I've never had a label or anyone to say, "We wanna hear a single, we gotta come back and retool some of these songs until they're more catchy." ~ Nicholas Thorburn

Oppurtunity Makes the Thief ~ Stieg Larsson

C'mon on down to the Whiff and Spit; snuff it up and cough it out, Lewis chanted, giving it a catchy rhythem. ~ L.J.Smith

Oedipus Rex vs. Tyrannosaurus Rex
Oedipus Rex, a tragedy by Sophocles, chronicles the story of Oedipus, a man who becomes the king of Thebes while in the process unwittingly fulfilling a prophecy that he would murder his pops Laius and marry his mom Jocasta.

Tyrannosaurus Rex , commonly abbreviated to T. Rex, was a big fucking dinosaur that kicked ass during the Jurassic period.

My point?

My point is there doesn't have to be a point if you have
already hooked the reader with a catchy title.

And the winner is...
Steven Spielberg ~ Beryl Dov

In 1942 Cachao wrote a tune for Arcao, 'Rareza de Melitn,' with a memorable catchy tumbao. In 1957 Arcao recorded a reworking of it under the name 'Chanchullo'; and in 1962 Tito Puente reworked that into 'Oye como va,' still with that same groove. In this form, audibly the same, it powered Carlos Santana's multiplatinum 1970 cover version, close to three decades after Cachao first played it. ~ Ned Sublette

I try to think of something catchy to say, but there's nothing but irritation that something that was funny yo an eleven-year-old boy is still funny to a seventeen-year-old one. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

I was called "T-Bow" but the people got it mixed up with "T-Bone." My name is Aaron Walker but "T-Bone" is catchy, people remember it. My auntie gave it to me when I was a kid. Mother's mother was a Cherokee Indian full blooded. There were sixteen girls and two boys in my mother's family, all dead but two. ~ T-Bone Walker

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

If your intuition is telling you not to do something, then don't. Your intuition is not stupid. ~ Martin Niemoller

And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music. ~ Joan Jett

I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt. ~ William Lloyd Garrison

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

I'm coming from a place that's more experimental and indulgent already, so for the last 10 years, it's been more like, "How can I defend my own sensibilities by writing a nugget of a little catchy pop song?" That's how I'm stretching myself, by writing something really simple. ~ Andrew Bird

The first songs I wrote were catchy, but the subject matter was God. ~ Katy Perry

I think that a good song is catchy, and a great song is not catchy - but it has a deeper meaning. ~ Courtney Barnett

A good song stays in your head because it's catchy, a great song stays because it means something to you. ~ Tove Lo

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. ~ Garrison Keillor

Indonesia is home to the cobra burger, which isn't just a catchy name: it's made with real cobra meat. ~ Cary McNeal

LA owed me. LA was like a beautiful painting that I could only see afterhours through the museum window. It was like a Firebird blasting some catchy tune until the light turns green and it speeds off, leaving me stuck with Katy Perry in my head the rest of the day. LA had promised me a lot and it had paid off very fucking little. ~ Christopher Paul Meyer

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure. ~ Stanley Clarke

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope

You know that a plan was dreamed up by politicians and pollsters - and not by, oh, anyone who knows what they are talking about - when the numbers are nice and round with a catchy ring to them ... ~ Jerry Taylor

Catchy acronym in the consulting world, "MECE," which stands for "mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive. ~ Stanley McChrystal

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. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy. ~ Daddy Yankee

I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it. ~ James Bay

A name with a catchy story attached makes you less of a business, and more of a character in a story. ~ Oscar Auliq-Ice

Happiness is like a genre of music that nearly everyone knows how to dance to. Happiness has a very simple tempo, catchy phrasing, and memorable lyrics. It's the song at the wedding that makes everyone excited to run to the dance floor. ~ T.K. Coleman

People are consuming more than ever, but I think they want a bit of honesty and depth. Adele, Gotye, Janelle Monae - they're giving you a catchy song, but it's also a challenging song at the same time. ~ Kimbra

If it hurts, DON'T DO IT AGAIN. ~ Martin Niemoller

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. ~ Bernard Nathanson

You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? ~ Bernadette Peters

Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth that are also simple enough to be memorable. Jimmy Van Heusen was a master at this kind of song. His music was complex, with deeply rich chord changes any jazzman can embrace, but also possessed catchy, crystalline melodies of exceeding sing-ability. His songs were meant to be sung, not just listened to, and they were sung by the best, with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby at the top of that list. ~ Paul Zollo

False hope is nicer than no hope at all. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

The musicians are good and their music is catchy - it pulls the kids in in droves. Mike Bickle admitted to me that the music was a big part of their success at attracting young people. ~ Roger Ross Williams

You see what power is – holding someone else's fear
in your hand and showing it to them ~ Amy Tan

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. ~ Chuck Comeau

It was a full Spears album, apparently, and each song was as ridiculous as the one before. They were catchy, yes, but so was the plague. ~ Heidi Cullinan

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