# Iconic pop culture quotes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 14, 2011, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-pop-culture-quotes/581898 "2011-05-14T14:08:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-pop-culture-quotes/581898/21 "2011-05-14T20:37:28Z")
Khaaaan!!! ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-pop-culture-quotes/581898/22 "2011-05-14T20:52:56Z")
Don’t call me Shirley. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-pop-culture-quotes/581898/23 "2011-05-14T21:36:18Z")
“nuke them from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure” “I’ll be back” ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-pop-culture-quotes/581898/24 "2011-05-14T21:54:17Z")
As far as iconic sports quotes I would put “Do you believe in miracles” and “The band is on the field, the band is on the field” along with “down goes Frazier”. The Havlicek and Cubs quotes seemed pretty obscure to me ---
**Author:** ![cain7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@cain7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cain7)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-pop-culture-quotes/581898/25 "2011-05-14T21:59:39Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Because shut up, that’s why-- O.K., this is only iconic in my house… That was laugh out loud funny. Reading the first post it occured to me that if you’re gonna include “Havlicek stole the ball!” you can’t out “The Giants win the pennant!!”. Iconic. I hear a lot of “…and how’s that workin’ for ya?” ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-pop-culture-quotes/581898/26 "2011-05-14T23:41:11Z")
There’s some people on the pitch. They think it’s all over. It is now! ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-pop-culture-quotes/581898/27 "2011-05-15T01:00:30Z")
“Praise the lord and pass the ammunition” “Burn, baby, burn” “Obviously a major malfunction” ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-pop-culture-quotes/581898/28 "2011-05-15T01:12:14Z")
I know it’s a song lyric, but I have heard the Grateful Dead’s line “What a long, strange trip it’s been.” used in dozens of various contexts, including once by Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News… ---
**Author:** ![Dahnlor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahnlor/32/533_2.png) [@Dahnlor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahnlor)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-pop-culture-quotes/581898/29 "2011-05-15T01:20:12Z")
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date that will live in infamy ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-pop-culture-quotes/581898/30 "2011-05-15T13:56:13Z")
“Kill’em all, and let God sort’em out.” “Ich bin ein Berliner.” “We will bury you!” “Mission Accomplished.” “One small step for [a] man . . .” “It’s déja vu all over again.” “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” ---
**Author:** ![Dahnlor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahnlor/32/533_2.png) [@Dahnlor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahnlor)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-pop-culture-quotes/581898/31 "2011-05-15T15:58:05Z")
We have nothing to fear but fear itself. Ask not what your country can do, but what you can do for your country. Houston, we have a problem. Stupid is as stupid does. Life is like a box of chocolates. Run, Forrest, run! They may take our lives, but they’ll never take… OUR FREEDOM! …'bout around Saragosa. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-pop-culture-quotes/581898/32 "2011-05-15T16:53:37Z")
I’m wondering if people missed the OP’s clarification or don’t know that a lot of those phrases come from TV and movies. ---
**Author:** ![Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-pop-culture-quotes/581898/33 "2011-05-15T17:05:56Z")
“What does Marcellus Wallace look like?” “Make it so.” “Shaken, not stirred.” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-pop-culture-quotes/581898/34 "2011-05-15T17:09:37Z")
Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a date that will live in infamy. We have nothing to fear but fear itself. - both by Roosevelt Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. - JFK Mission accomplished. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-pop-culture-quotes/581898/35 "2011-05-15T17:51:35Z")
It depends on what your definition of “is” is. “misunderestimate” You betcha. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-pop-culture-quotes/581898/36 "2011-05-15T18:32:13Z")
“I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. And you, Senator, are no Jack Kennedy.” -Lloyd Bensten to Dan Quayle- ---
**Author:** ![Lethal\_Babydoll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3be4f8/32.png) [@Lethal\_Babydoll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lethal_Babydoll)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-pop-culture-quotes/581898/37 "2011-05-16T02:53:30Z")
I have a dream ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-pop-culture-quotes/581898/38 "2011-05-16T14:28:57Z")
Remember the Alamo. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-pop-culture-quotes/581898/39 "2011-05-16T14:57:29Z")
What we have in mind, is breakfast in bed for four hundred thousand. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-pop-culture-quotes/581898/40 "2011-05-16T15:06:37Z")
(not a quote) A lot of these are baby boomer-centric. I don’t recall all that much of the pop culture being overwhelmed by stuff from the, oh, 1930s when I was a kid. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-pop-culture-quotes/581898.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-pop-culture-quotes/581898.md?page=3)