Catchy Quotes - Page 4

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Faith, Knowledge, Science

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.185 (first published 1891).

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• The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.

  T. H. White

  Funny, Patience, Humor

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• 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

  Walmart, T Shirt, Week

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• When you put biblical truth to the songs used in churches, you'll have the congregation leave singing the sermon. You'll have God's thoughts, things that are God-breathed, stuck in their heads. It's sad to think about a really catchy tune paired up with bad theology because that could, honestly, do a lot of damage in church.

  Laura Story

  Song, Biblical, Thinking

  "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.

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• Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

  William Safire

  Humble, Humility, Willing

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• Actions lie louder than words.

  Carolyn Wells

  Life, Lying, Action

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

  Bernadette Peters

  Inspirational, Positivity, Needs

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• 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

  Song, Writing, Vacuums

  "The Sound of Serial: Composer Nick Thorburn Explains the Making of the Podcast Score". Interview with Sandy Honig, pitchfork.com. November 25, 2014.

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• 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

  Girl, Mother, Kids

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• Who knows what the future holds but I think I'll always be that dude that can run hooks, and do hooks for other artists, and really know how to make a catchy hook.

  SonReal

  Running, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• When I'm making something I need it to be catchy - I need it to hit the sweet spot.

  Grimes

  Sweet, Needs, Spots

  "Always Waiting For The Shivers To Happen: Grimes Interviewed". Interview with Angus Finlayson, thequietus.com. May 25, 2012.

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• I wanted to have all the songs to be the strongest they could be and all the choruses to be catchy. One of those records you could put in your car and just drive and not have to change it.

  Orianthi

  Song, Car, Records

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• 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?

  George Carlin

  School, Kids, Writing

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• Make sure that your song is fun and catchy. Make sure that you enjoy singing, and drink tea.

  Raven-Symone

  Song, Fun, Tea

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• To be great is to be misunderstood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Inspiration, Greatness

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• Polite conversation is rarely either.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

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• Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.

  J. Paul Getty

  Money, Business, Successful

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• 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

  Song, Crazy, Thinking

  "Green Day Say Broadway 'american Idiot' Isn't 'a Rated-pg Affair'" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. March 25, 2010.

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

  Garth Brooks

  Dream, Rivers, Flow

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

  Diogenes

  False Love

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• Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority.

  William James

  Long, Majority

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• Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.

  William James

  Lazy, Weakness, Proud

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• I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have a temper, you don't have any passion.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Passion, Temper, Ifs

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

  Fran Lebowitz

  Sound, Charming, Spilling

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

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

  Bernard Baruch

  Facts, Opinion, Entitled

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