(96 quotes found)
“The catch phrase positively rejoices in being a formula, an accepted gambit, a ready-made reaction.”
John Gross
“O Fame! if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.”
Lord Byron
“Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.”
Dan Quayle
“The phrase "New World Order" is Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier.”
William Safire
“I have a catch phrase: `You're fired,' ... Don King has a catch phrase: `Not Guilty.'”
Donald Trump
“The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“A `strange coincidence', to use a phrase / By which such things are settled nowadays.”
“It's a much more jaded, cynical, kind of (take on the phrase). It was really shaped by what was the election last time. And the results of the election. But you know, in order to take the moral high ground, just the opinion in the song is, 'You have your opinion. I have mine. And don't get in my face about it. Have a nice day.' It's a very Jersey way of twisting the words.”
Jon Bon Jovi
“Grammatically, should of is a predatory admonition; as such, it is always used as part of a herpetological phrase.”
Dave Barry
“This really gives no hope to anybody in Germany for political mobilization. Germans would like one idea, one phrase, one catchword to encourage them. This is the lowest common denominator.”
Claus Leggewie
