How literature has influenced our speech today

b-may points out that he "couldn't help but notice all the turns of phrase and common references the play has added to even today's everyday conversation." The play he's referring to his Shakespeare's Macbeth.

I remember way back in high school our senior English class studied this play. I was really into jazz music, and I also remember listening to the Manhattan Transfer's album Vocalese. The song "Sing Joy Spring" has the lyric:

What was it from MacBeth?
"Life's but a walking shadow
a player poor
that struts and frets upon the stage
and's seen no more
A tale that truly has an idiotic ring
That's full of lotsa sound and fury
signifying nothing..."