Non Cliche Quotes

#1. A drunk truck driver ran over me. I was in a Volkswagen. It was horrible. It sounds like a cliche, but anything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I give a lot of credit to my dad, who was a very strong guy.

Robert David Hall

#2. That's the problem with heartbreak, to you it's like an atomic bomb but to the world it's just a cliche because in the end we all have the same experience.

Olivia

#3. Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They're all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They're tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.

Andrew Bird

#4. Well, sounding wise wasn't difficult. It was a lot easier than being intelligent, actually, since you didn't have to say anything surprising or come up with any new insights. You just let your brain's pattern-matching software complete the cliche, using whatever Deep Wisdom you'd stored previously.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#5. This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.

Sylvia Brownrigg

#6. Cliche is Truth's most loyal friend...

Rafael Reyes

#7. All love as all life is cliche until you look beyond the obvious, until you look for what's hidden within what's displayed.

Chloe Thurlow

#8. Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

David Duchovny

#9. At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#10. It's a cliche to say this now, but to me, 'The Sopranos' is like Dickens. It's able to take this very focused look at something but make it epic and profound.

Stephen Merchant

#11. So, it's the ever popular Firstborn Child of Doom prophecy,huh, ice-boy? How very cliche. Why can't it ever be the third nephew twice removed who's fated to destroy the worls?
Iron Prophecy: The Iron Fey~ Puck

Julie Kagawa

#12. Then there's the silliest of all cliches, 'on a pace for' 'Pace' is a figment of the mathematician's imagination.

Leonard Koppett

#13. I really realize the more movies I do just how important - it's so cliche when people say it, because everybody says it nowadays - but it's so important to keep it grounded. I totally understand what that means.

Ken Jeong

#14. The normal routine... cliche

"FEW MORE SECONDS"
"FEW MORE MINUTES

Deyth Banger

#15. Surely she'd heard voices like his, so low-pitched as to make every commonplace utterance seem of the deepest intimacy, every cliche a delicious secret.

Loretta Chase

#16. Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.

Eugene Ionesco

#17. It's very hard to tell an actor, 'Stop acting.' It's easy to tell a non-actor, because they're embarrassed when they act. They get ashamed when they do something cliche, whereas an actor is happy.

John Carney

#18. One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate change is that it has become a cliche before it has even been understood

Tim Flannery

#19. I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

Adele

#20. Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

Kanye West

#21. I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble free, but it can give the energy to fight the odds and win.

Mary Balogh

#22. So many thoughts ran through my head. Most of them contained the same, simply three words so often strung together that it was too much a classic cheese or cliche to say it, but they still had meaning, no matter how many times they had been repeated.

Alysha Speer

#23. His fidelity to the cliche transcended the necessity to communicate.

China Mieville

#24. Often times, music is used to evoke an emotion and it's become a cliche, so I don't want to do that, and actually what I do, is that emotional intensity that has developed throughout the film, I allow it to get released by having that music at the end with the credits.

Asghar Farhadi

#25. The cliche is dead poetry.

Gerald Brenan

#26. The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now usually discover - somewhere in the thickets of the Internet - reactions to shows from people who've seen them in previews.

Ben Brantley

#27. It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so your chances of avoiding cliche are very slim. And you're trying to write fiction, not a match report.

Mal Peet

#28. I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.

Paul McDonald

#29. People think that buying something for their home which is up-to-date is chic, but often it's a cliche. I call people who simply give clients the current 'thing' stylists not decorators.

Nicholas Haslam

#30. The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

Patrick Stump

#31. I know it's an artistic cliche, but every time I look at my past work, I want to projectile vomit.

Rich Burlew

#32. 'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.

Billy Graham

#33. Let us swell with gratitude and allow it to overwhelm us. It isn't as cliche as we make it; life truly is short. Let's spend it all lavishly wallowing in gratitude.

Grace Gealey

#34. It is almost a cliche to speak of the professed atheist who cries out for help to God when he is in mortal danger. The profession of atheism is done by the conscious mind, but the subconscious still believes in God.

Serge Kahili King