Quotes about Cliche

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal. Votes: 4

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. Votes: 4

I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche. Votes: 4

The cliche is dead poetry. Votes: 3

Most of my cliches aren't original. Votes: 3

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose. Votes: 3

Cliches are what make you understand something. Votes: 3

I am against the whole cliche of the moment. Votes: 3

What is good today may be a cliche tomorrow. Votes: 3

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague. Votes: 3

The computing field is always in need of new cliches. Votes: 3

At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche. Votes: 3

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it. Votes: 3

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche. Votes: 3

It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up. Votes: 3

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless. Votes: 3

Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models. Votes: 3

I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers. Votes: 3

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director. Votes: 3

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy. Votes: 3

I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out. Votes: 3

All right, so call me Miss Cliche of 1960, but the thing about the married ones that always spooks me is how sweet and attentive they are at first, when they're on the prowl. Votes: 3

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Choose something you like to do. I know its a cliche, and youve heard it over and over. But the reason is, youre going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible. Votes: 3

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches. Votes: 3

It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element. Votes: 3

The biggest cliche in Photography is Sunrise and Sunset. Votes: 1

You are who you surround yourself with. I know that's such a cliche quote, but it's true. Votes: 1

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me. Votes: 1

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain. Votes: 1

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable. Votes: 1

It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing. Votes: 1

It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are. Votes: 1

I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings. Votes: 1

I always believe that if you feel good and look happy, you're always going to be beautiful. My one actual beauty trick is pretty cliche: Never, ever go to bed with your makeup on. Votes: 1

The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing. Votes: 1

There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you just follow someone that's preaching. There's lots of different emotions and moods that a service requires. Votes: 1

Thinking about your training should put a smile on your face. As cliche as it sounds, you are worth all the time and energy you've put in. Unleash your emotions with a cheer, or even a signature roar, after a tough workout. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I just really like fun, cool, interesting, quirky girls. And sometimes you find that in 6'2 model bodies and sometimes they're short and brunette. All shapes and sizes - it's really about the personality. That sounds cliche, but it's so freaking true! Votes: 1

Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression. Votes: 1

Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment. Votes: 1

It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports. Votes: 1

I want to be happy. I realized that being happy isn't necessarily about getting there, it's how you get there. It almost sounds like a cliche, but every entrepreneur I've talked to - every good entrepreneur - really enjoys the 'how you get here.' Votes: 1

It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. Votes: 1

It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head. Votes: 1

If you think of exercise as a 60-minute commitment 3 times a week at the gym, you're missing the point completely. If you think that going on a diet has something to do with nutrition, you don't see the forest through the trees. It is a lifestyle. I know it sounds cliche, but you have to find things you love to do. Votes: 1

The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliche villains with a Russian accent and big muscles and a mean face, I don't know. My Russian accent isn't that great, and the muscles aren't that big and the mean face is not enough. You know what I mean? It gets very boring. Tedious stuff. Votes: 1

My daughter is the biggest gift; I've said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about being a parent is when you think you've cracked it, and you're on top of your game, they change again and you have to catch up and adjust. I feel such a responsibility to instill good values in her, to be polite, to have discipline. Votes: 1

I feel like a cliche. Votes: 0

To move past fear is a cliche. Votes: 0

I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche. Votes: 0

A cliche is everything you've ever heard of. Votes: 0

I have never been beautiful in cliche terms. Votes: 0

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion. Votes: 0

Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege. Votes: 0

Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that. Votes: 0

Use it or lose it is a cliche because it's true. Votes: 0

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche. Votes: 0

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion. Votes: 0

I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche. Votes: 0

I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film. Votes: 0

The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche. Votes: 0

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind. Votes: 0

I know it's a cliche, but I didn't want to work in an office. Votes: 0

I just want to serve people. I know it sounds like a simple cliche. Votes: 0

It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true. Votes: 0

This is such a cliche, but I feel like filmmaking is a collaborative experience. Votes: 0

I now consider myself quite religious and spiritual although that sounds like a terrible cliche. Votes: 0

Contrary to the cliche', genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it. Votes: 0

I know it's a cliche, but I've been happy to go to work every day. Votes: 0

May we all beware lest our innovative ideas appear very cliche before we even blink. Votes: 0

I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that's a cliche. Votes: 0

My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry. Votes: 0

I hate to sound cliche, but I understand why people love to cook. It's fun! Votes: 0

I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche. Votes: 0

I guess this is cliche, but I'd love to work with Kanye West, Mark Ronson, Diplo. Votes: 0

When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche. Votes: 0

It's become a cliche to think of marriage as a disaster area and a war zone. Votes: 0

The more you give, the more you get - its a cliche, but its really true. Votes: 0

Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true. Votes: 0

It's sort of cliche, but when you're playing drunk, your character is trying to appear sober. Votes: 0

It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles. Votes: 0

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue. Votes: 0

I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.' Votes: 0

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down. Votes: 0

Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true. Votes: 0

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box. Votes: 0

I know it sounds stupid and cliche, but I just want to get better. I want to keep improving. Votes: 0

Timing is everything. That's a cliche. Now. If I'd said that a long time ago, I'd have been original. Votes: 0

The road is a lonely place, and that sounds like a cliche, you know, like what is my life? Votes: 0

That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love. Votes: 0

At the risk of sounding too cliche, I found a really fantastic church. That is what keeps me grounded. Votes: 0

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards. Votes: 0

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche. Votes: 0

I'm very much aware of the dangers of becoming a cliche. Mr. Anger, someone who gets meaner, angrier on record. Votes: 0

So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing. Votes: 0

I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous. Votes: 0

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over? Votes: 0

I know it's an artistic cliche, but every time I look at my past work, I want to projectile vomit. Votes: 0

I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.' Votes: 0

The cliche that sea dry up and rocks rot away, but the heart never changes is nothing but a beautiful fantasy. Votes: 0

I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician. Votes: 0

My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress. Votes: 0

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true. Votes: 0

My best feature would have to be my hair. That sounds so cliche - but my hair is like a separate entity. Votes: 0

I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms. Votes: 0

It's a cliche that filmmaking is a team sport. However, let me say just say it again: filmmaking is a team sport. Votes: 0

Wold domination is exhausting and cliche. People ought to just focus on being individual responsible citizens of the earth instead of assholes. Votes: 0

I have the utmost respect for synthesizers - Soft Cell, early Depeche Mode. But that's become a cliche for the '80s. Votes: 0

A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials. Votes: 0

I've always thought the expression 'passion project' was kind of a cliche until I started working on 'Big Shot' for 'ESPN.' Votes: 0

Antiquite . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe" tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche d and boring. Votes: 0

It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself. Votes: 0

It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along. Votes: 0

It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along Votes: 0

I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial. Votes: 0

There are sometimes concerns about being respectful with a gay character, and you either end up with a tiptoeing quality or an all-out cliche. Votes: 0

It sounds like a cliche but there are no shorts cuts. You have to be very dedicated and challenge yourself everyday to be better. Votes: 0

Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression. Votes: 0

The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words. Votes: 0

You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint. Votes: 0

This is so cliche, but my beauty icon would have to be Angelina Jolie. She looks like she wears natural makeup, but she's still beautiful. Votes: 0

Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly. Votes: 0

I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes. Votes: 0

Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings. Votes: 0

I like guys with a nice smile. I know it's cliche, but it's so true! I like a guy with a nice smile and nice eyes. Votes: 0

I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last. Votes: 0

I know it sounds cliche but I believe in an essential way, it's very true that being a Christian is having a relationship with God through Christ. Votes: 0

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society. Votes: 0

This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some kind of more honest writing. Votes: 0

A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche of the woman. Votes: 0

I hate the cliche of 'just have fun,' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids. Votes: 0

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day. Votes: 0

When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we were rich in so many other ways. Votes: 0

This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence? Votes: 0

I miss the cast and crew of Supernatural immensely. I know it's a cliche to say your cast and crew are like your family, but it's really the case there. Votes: 0

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still. Votes: 0

I don't know, I find that honestly, the stand-up thing in some ways is a little bit of a cliche to carry around, because people don't consider stand-ups really actors. Votes: 0

The Philippines, it has a politics of patronage. Family and favors, in addition to the old cliche of guns, goons and gold, really do still hold a lot of sway. Votes: 0

I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche. Votes: 0

I prefer to speak of 'interdimensionals' rather than 'extraterrestrials' because the latter has connotations of 'little green men' and all the other cliche responses. Nor does it tell the full story. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You have to go through the darkness to truly know the light. This may sound like a cliche, but it's true nonetheless. Often the greatest doubts occur just before a breakthrough. Votes: 0

You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it’s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you. Votes: 0

The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it's a real thing - the more love we spread around the world the more it's going to change lives. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's become almost a cliche at this point that movies in the general sense are the place you go for superheroes and explosions and TV is where you go for actual storytelling. Votes: 0

I realize it's a cliche, almost, that coming out of the closet is a very healthy and empowering thing to do, but for me, it really has been a truly wonderful thing. Votes: 0

Two steps forward...one step back...I've always hated that old cliche too...I believe that we should all be able to dance through life and only change the tempo now and then. Votes: 0

I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse. Votes: 0

My reasons for becoming a chef are somewhat of a cliche. I always loved to eat but it was watching my parents cook that really served as the impetus for my career choice. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient." Votes: 0

We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new." Yesterdays avant-garde experiment is today's chic and tomorrows cliche. Votes: 0

Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy. Votes: 0

I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway. Votes: 0

I think it's sad that there seems to be one definition of beauty in Hollywood/New York. It's such a cliche, but I think it's true that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. Votes: 0

Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliche, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts. Votes: 0

I guess it's a bit cliché, but as an actor, I really admire good writing. There are a lot of great ideas out there, but it's the execution that really makes it work. Votes: 0

Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn't so easy to do. Votes: 0

I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really? Votes: 0

It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy. Votes: 0

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliche. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves. Votes: 0

A perfect weekend in London has to start on Friday night, by going to the theatre, the Donmar or the National. It's a cliche for an actor, but I enjoy going as much as possible. Votes: 0

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original. Votes: 0