Overused Quotes

#1. I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

Ted McGinley

#2. Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to know new people who think in different ways. I want to hear myself referred to as Elie Saab, without labels or titles.

Elie Saab

#3. Reason has survival value, but when overused at the expense of our intuition, feeling, and spirit, reason cuts us off from discovering our full potential.

Dan Millman

#4. Epic is a word we often hear overused these days.
Epic is Echoes or the guitar solo in Comfortably Numb.
THAT is Epic.

Sienna McQuillen

#5. I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused.

Richard Donner

#6. Men, crumpled like bed-sheets in hospitals,
And women, battered like overused proverbs.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#7. I don't buy that overused line about a woman's job making her a better mother. The children need more time. Everything in our home needs more time.

Holly Peterson

#8. I think it tends to be overused and can be a little bit gimmicky. A lot of people are using 3-D now because they feel have they have to ... that will come and go and the pictures that deserve to be in 3-D will continue to be. When it's done bad, it can make you carsick.

Joe Johnston

#9. Fear was like heat applied to steal: Applied correctly it might forge a blade; overused, it turned metal to slag.

Alexander Freed

#10. I've probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it's so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.

Biz Stone

#11. It's tough to have an authentic relationship with awe in the age of awesome, a word that has become so overused as to be drained of its meaning.

Sharon Salzberg

#12. I've read way too much on the overused/misunderstood buzzwords "Show, don't tell!" that I'm convinced all novels should now be picture books

Michael Kroft

#13. When you know what you like and what you want and you're able to nudge things in the right direction, that's more profitable than ever, because there's so much information out there. Everything's saturated. Tastemaker is probably the most overused word, but I still think it's important.

A-Trak

#14. I don't like to use 'gourmet' because it has become so overused and abused.

Arthur Schwartz

#15. I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.

Alan Rickman

#16. Paradise" is a suffering word, grossly overused and ineptly devalued in everyday hype and blurb. Yet, tired as it is, it will have to do. Nothing else conveys that sense of place that can inspire a blissful contentment.

Andrew Rayner

#17. I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

Neal Asher

#18. Soulmate is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare, and very real.

Hilary Duff

#19. What's happening on the Colorado River is happening all over the world. The water is overused, overdammed, and it's polluted in some places.

Greg MacGillivray

#20. I've learned that 'love' is used a lot in the States for everything: 'I love that burger,' 'I love my shoes,' 'I love a friend.' To me, if it's overused, it loses meaning.

Juan Pablo Galavis

#21. Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

Fritz Kreisler

#22. NEED is an overused word. A swirling human figure erupted from the sand - Leo's least favorite goddess, the Mistress of Mud, the Princess of Potty Sludge, Gaea herself.

Rick Riordan

#23. Use lots of exclamation points. They love to be overused.

SARK

#24. The practice does lose its charm if overused -

Meg Cabot

#25. I always considered "love" to be such an ambiguous term, often both overused and underused, but I knew that I was feeling something that I'd never felt before.

Matt Abrams

#26. Joe switched off. Was apocalyptic the most overused word of the new century? Every fucking chunk of ice that broke off and fell into the fucking foamy deep was a fucking apocalypse.

Gerard Stembridge

#27. There is no such thing as magic. It is a word. A silly, foolish, overused word. There is only your aura ... or the Chinese have a better word for it: qi. A life force. An energy. This is the energy that flows within you. It can be shaped, molded, directed.

Michael Scott

#28. It's too bad the word miracle has been overused, because I swear it's the only word that fit the feeling of holding my daughter in my arms. My heart swelled to the size of the world.

James Patterson

#29. Mere faith is the path of the lazy. It is the overused excuse of the deluded. Get off your ass and make something happen yourself.

Dave Matthes

#30. I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underpriviledged was overused, I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime, but I have a great vocabulary.

Jules Feiffer

#31. Beautiful. Jules once thought he'd understood what the word meant. He now believed it overused. Some word needed to be kept in reserve for the rare, the arresting, the surprising ... the magical. Or a new one invented.

Julie Anne Long

#32. 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

#33. Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius.

Lupita Nyong'o

#34. Even if I had $200 million, I'm very wary of overusing CGI. I think it's a great tool and it can be used really effectively, but I feel like it does tend to be overused and especially in sci-fi stuff.

Rian Johnson

#35. It's a timeline!' Elysia exclaimed.
'Thanks, Captain Obvious,' said Ferbus.
Elysia glared at him. 'Thank you, Captain Overused Expression.'
'No, thank you, Captain Shut Your Facehole.

Gina Damico

#36. Well, I think likability is an overused word. I don't watch people 'cause I like them; I watch them because they're compelling. Sympathetic is a little different. Likable just thins you out. Working to make a character likable is what kills most TV shows.

Louis C.K.

#37. The word love is so overused that is has become saturated and now it tastes like nothing.

Nakia R. Laushaul

#38. The argument could be made that the word 'hero' is overused. I do not think, however, that this is the case when referring to teachers.

Steve Maraboli

#39. I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

Ben Affleck

#40. I'd like to change the depictions of life, love, and adventure under what's known as the typical, overused backdrop of Hollywood.

Romany Malco

#41. Sometimes a sound gets overused. There is such a thing as a good saxophone, but it's like those fields in agriculture - they need to rest for a year or so. You need time to burn all the saxophones and start from scratch.

Thomas Mars

#42. I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused.

Marlee Matlin

#43. The phrase 'perception is reality' is overused generally. But perception can be reality in monetary policy. The bond market doesn't act merely on what it sees. It acts on what it expects of the Fed or the government.

Amity Shlaes

#44. The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.

Jodi Picoult

#45. Outside the box is an overused cliche which goes nowhere near far enough. In fact, there are so many politicians and salesmen thinking outside the box these days that I am convinced that all of their boxes are completely empty!

Lance Greenfield

#46. I like animal sidekicks. They seem to be a pretty cool trope of post-apocalyptic fiction - just because if you're going to have this lone protagonist, they're going to need someone to talk to. Dogs are overused, and cats are dumb. So that leaves monkeys.

Brian K. Vaughan

#47. The truth is that people who live for the future are, as we say of the insane, "not quite all there" - or here: by overeagerness they are perpetually missing the point. Foresight is bought at the price of anxiety, and, when overused, it destroys all its own advantages. The

Alan W. Watts

#48. I'm human. The single most overused excuse on the planet for doing the absolute wrong thing.

Debra Webb

#49. snow is overused.

N.D. Wilson

#50. I think the term 'friend' itself has lost almost all of its exclusivity. Even the term 'good friend' is overused. Adding the word 'vital' provides a clear definition of what we mean.

Tom Rath

#51. I definitely subscribe to the idea that 9/11, to use an overused phrase, was a wake-up call. There was a year-long national teach-in on Islam - everyone read books and suddenly talked about Islam, and that was very productive. But there's no doubt that moment has passed.

Bruce Feiler

#52. I think that Lethal Weapon-style dialogue is overused, it's a necessary aspect of high action films where you have to have the smart retort. You have to say "I'll be back baby" and stuff. It's not my style.

George Lucas

#53. I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.

Artur Davis

#54. The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts

Yvon Chouinard

#55. A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.

Anais Nin