Popular Catch Phrases
- “Well, isn't that special?”
- “Now, who could it be? Could it be ... Satan?” (During a Christmas-themed December broadcast, using a magnetic spelling board, she rearranged letters spelling “Santa” to reveal “Satan”.)
- "We like ourselves, don't we?" (Usually directed at a guest on her show)
- "Ah yes, from the Chippewa word meaning, drop your shorts, we don't have much time." (Usually directed towards a guest)
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Famous quotes containing the words popular, catch and/or phrases:
“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
“I know we’re not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don’t know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don’t care that we don’t.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“She loved Cecil; George made her nervous; will the reader explain to her that the phrases should have been reversed?”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)