Top 100 Quotes About Cliches
#2. New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an Englishman, I thought were from a bygone era or were a bit of poetic license with cop shows - the more you hang out with them, the more you realize how real that jargon is.
Theo James
#3. The goal with 'Alpha' was to run towards the cliches and then to break through them, and that doesn't change depending on the medium.
Greg Rucka
#4. You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female cliches that are written in a lot of comedies that are named chick flicks.
Wendi McLendon-Covey
#5. Gratitude is more than just a simple "thank you" when you receive a gift. It is about keeping in mind that you live right now, allowing yourself to focus on the moment and appreciate the life you lead, to focus on all that you do have, not what you don't. Cliches? Totally.
Meik Wiking
#6. Listen to the speeches, one after another telling the audience what it already knows, evoking applause with necessary cliches, no longer shocking anybody with the shocking facts of the war because you can become so jaded with horror that you develop an emotional callous.
Paul Krassner
#7. I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to a lot of realism both in the language and in the structure of a book.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#8. Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.
Jack Nicholson
#9. New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African musical practice in the United States, and, cliches aside, that practice really did travel up the Mississippi and did spread overland.
Ned Sublette
#10. This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.
Sylvia Brownrigg
#11. Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in this country - to clear the air of the racial mirages, cliches, and lies that this country's very atmosphere has been filled with for four hundred years.
Alex Haley
#12. cliches are truisms and all truisms are true
Jack Kerouac
#13. Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once; a journalist has to accept the fact that his work, by its very todayness, is excluded from any share in tomorrow.
Cyril Connolly
#14. Then there's the silliest of all cliches, 'on a pace for' 'Pace' is a figment of the mathematician's imagination.
Leonard Koppett
#15. Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#16. Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true.
Douglas Wood
#17. Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.
Phillip Sweet
#18. Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about.
Antonia Bird
#19. Cliched characters are cliches because they're people being described by people who are on the outside. If you take two sentences from anybody and reduce them to just that, that's what you're going to get.
Michael Cudlitz
#20. It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. If what I feel is not precise than how should I call it love?
Jeanette Winterson
#21. There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.
Jo Brand
#22. Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?
Bob Seger
#23. Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.
Arundhati Roy
#24. It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.
George Packer
#25. I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.
Timothy Spall
#26. We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging cliches safely from the sideline. Instead, he enters into our suffering. Jesus did it in the Incarnation and his Spirit does it in us now. God will never leave us alone in our suffering.
Rick Warren
#27. Cliches remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that other have trod this ground long ago.
Miguel Syjuco
#28. When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.
Samuel Goldwyn
#29. The human voice often shatters the beauty of the most tender passions; and when we left Simla next day, and Maureen and Sunil used all the stock cliches to express their love, I was a little disappointed. But the poetry of life was in their bodies, not in their tongues.
Ruskin Bond
#30. When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem to apply.
Dan Savage
#31. I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
Jose Saramago
#32. Isn't it what all librarians strive toward, at least in the movies and cliches? Silence, invisibility, nothing but a rambling cloud of old book dust.
Rebecca Makkai
#33. I reflected that it seemed to be in the nature of human beings to spend the first part of their lives mocking the cliches and conventions of their elders and the final part mocking the cliches and conventions of the young.
Michael Chabon
#34. I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.
Douglas Wood
#36. I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.
Michel Hazanavicius
#37. If you distance yourself from reality and just cling to cliches about democracy find yourself a different job than analyzing politics
Hany Ghoraba
#38. There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.
Bauvard
#39. I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.
Josephine De La Baume
#40. If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
Octavio Paz
#41. One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.
Matt Taibbi
#42. The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.
Serge Daney
#43. We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.
Marc Almond
#44. Subtract miracles from Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or Toaism, and you have essentially the same religion left. Subtract miracles from Christianity, and you have nothing but the cliches and platitudes most American Christians get weekly (and weakly) from their pulpits.
Peter Kreeft
#45. Most of my cliches aren't original.
Chuck Knox
#46. I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you're not right for yourself, it's impossible to be right for anyone.
Rachel Machacek
#47. In baseball and sex, cliches are usually true: pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn't seem to care.
Chuck Klosterman
#48. I'd discovered another of life's cliches by being with jude: the happier you are in life, the faster it passes you by.
Nicole Williams
#49. I'm not a guy who likes cliches. I don't think that stereotypes and cliches are the end of the line, when it comes to a performance.
Chris Bauer
#50. Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.
Daryl Hall
#51. The challenge in daytime in particular, I think, is to go against all the traditional cliches of daytime and try to make it real.
Eric Braeden
#52. The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
Ben Stiller
#53. Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.
Umberto Eco
#54. I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
Gary McCord
#55. All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.
Penelope Cruz
#56. I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
Evelyn Waugh
#57. All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.
Macaulay Culkin
#58. People love cliches. If you can give people cliches, that's very good TV, then.
Michael Hirst
#59. Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
Harold Evans
#60. There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.
David Twohy
#61. People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family.
Dean Wareham
#62. He remembered his uncle saying once how little vocabulary man really needed to get comfortably and even efficiently through his life, how not only in the individual but within his whole type and race and kind a few simple cliches served his few simple passions and needs and lusts.
William Faulkner
#63. When I hear what I have written out loud, the cliches hang in the air between us like bad breath
Sarah Kay
#64. Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.
Dean Koontz
#65. Bad movies and bad writing and easy cliches still manage to make us feel things toward each other. Part of me is disgusted by this. Part of me celebrates it.
Leslie Jamison
#66. What is a change-maker? What has Hillary Clinton changed? It is filled with all the cliches that New Agers and leftists glom on to, like "common sense gun control legislation." But it never was defined.
Rush Limbaugh
#67. Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.
Simon Van Booy
#68. Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
Eugene Ionesco
#69. Cliches work by appealing to the collective unconscious. They are the Pachbel's Canon in D of writing, something familiar the talented can riff off to create a distinct work.
Thomm Quackenbush
#70. This life is quite a rave- few heartaches, some long waits, altering faiths & breaking cliches!
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#71. Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're inspired by cliches.
Randy Pausch
#72. At the logic of fashion, such once-popular perversions as pedophilia and sodomy will become derided cliches, as amusing as pottery ducks on suburban walls.
J.G. Ballard
#73. Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term.
Robert M. Pirsig
#75. In this twilight they were more imagined than seen, but I felt surrounded by the practitioners of a sacred mediocrity, an elegant mediocrity cloistering inaccessible tortures. I don't know quite how to put it. People, men, proud of their cliches yet full of helpless poetry.
Denis Johnson
#76. Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.
Brad Holland
#77. One of the problems of this genre is that there are cliches everywhere, and you've got to be careful and watch out. Our rule with cliches is to either gently acknowledge them and make fun of them, or do something else. Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
Adrian Hodges
#78. It's cold enough to freeze the cliches off a Dan Browne novel. (Thought of that when working in the garden just after getting yet another 'thanks but no thanks'.)
Patsy Collins
#79. After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seamlessly an endless series of cliches.
Russell Baker
#80. Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.
Tom Hooper
#81. I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite.
Josh Lucas
#82. Only in art were there cliches; never in nature. There were no ordinary human beings. Everybody was born with surprise inside.
Jincy Willett
#83. Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
Edward Abbey
#84. Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.
Michael Nesmith
#86. The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight! The terrible twos are not a myth, but he's such a laugh to be around.
Burn Gorman
#87. Suddenly, everything I'd ever read made sense. All of the cliches about electricity and drowning and falling and other sinister metaphors for a kiss all swept over me. It was nuclear fusion. It was the door to Narnia.
Lily Anderson
#88. People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.
Steve Coogan
#89. Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
Dick Schaap
#90. Ford considers that development journalism means getting behind the cliches of starving children and getting people to tell their own stories: "We are looking at big policies affecting developing countries and looking at how this relates on the ground to those who expect to be benefiting.
Anonymous
#91. To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
Bel Kaufman
#92. If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause they work.
Doug Liman
#93. Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.
Miuccia Prada
#94. I'm trying to go beyond the traditional cliches of an African safari.
Jochen Zeitz
#95. They're called cliches because they're true, you know. Besides, life is quite complicated enough...
Elizabeth Noble
#96. The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths.
Faith Popcorn
#98. The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.
Pankaj Mishra
#99. Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.
Ron Paul
#100. Rosie digested the information, but not the cake. Her mother was strict about eating between meals. 'A fat girl will never find a good man, Rosie,' was her view, handed down to her by Great-aunt Jessie, a woman of many cliches.
Iain Pears
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