Quotes about Cliches

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose. Votes: 3

Cliches are cliches because they are true. Votes: 3

Cliches are what make you understand something. Votes: 3

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to. Votes: 3

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. 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

Let's have some new cliches. Votes: 1

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague. Votes: 1

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches. Votes: 1

Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart. Votes: 1

When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches. Votes: 1

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. Votes: 1

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue. Votes: 1

Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about. Votes: 1

All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks! Votes: 1

Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing... to stay alive for them. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Morals always sound like cliches, but usually cliches are based on things that are ultimate truths. Be grateful for what you have; appreciate what's right there in front of you. Votes: 1

What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas. Votes: 1

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone. Votes: 1

It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of the left hemisphere can leave people with no articulate speech other than the ability to swear, spout cliches and song lyrics. Votes: 1

When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't too bad, and the characters were interesting. But the story was a mess, and it was full of fantasy cliches. Dwarf with an axe. Barbarian warrior. I don't ever think I'd bother finishing that. It's just not worth my time. Votes: 1

Most of my cliches aren't original. Votes: 0

To the young, cliches seem freshly minted. Votes: 0

Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches. Votes: 0

Too many new writers dress up old cliches. Votes: 0

cliches are truisms and all truisms are true Votes: 0

I'm one of the cliches that has grown up. Votes: 0

The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths. Votes: 0

The computing field is always in need of new cliches. Votes: 0

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches. Votes: 0

The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches. Votes: 0

Don't avoid the cliches - they are cliches because they work! Votes: 0

I'm sick of the old cliches. Bring me some new cliches. Votes: 0

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true. Votes: 0

All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all. Votes: 0

Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again. Votes: 0

The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism. Votes: 0

It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. Votes: 0

The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true. Votes: 0

Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them. Votes: 0

Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life. Votes: 0

I originated my own cliches, but I'm finding that's not working for me anymore. Votes: 0

When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches. Votes: 0

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

It is easier to play around with a man's wife than with his cliches Votes: 0

Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them. Votes: 0

The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find. Votes: 0

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't. Votes: 0

This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak. Votes: 0

What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist. Votes: 0

I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches. Votes: 0

Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in. Votes: 0

Then there's the silliest of all cliches, 'on a pace for' 'Pace' is a figment of the mathematician's imagination. Votes: 0

When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches. Votes: 0

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it. Votes: 0

There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from. Votes: 0

Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one. Votes: 0

People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting. Votes: 0

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. Votes: 0

Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man? Votes: 0

I'd discovered another of life's cliches by being with jude: the happier you are in life, the faster it passes you by. Votes: 0

Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice. Votes: 0

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising. Votes: 0

I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh. Votes: 0

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas. Votes: 0

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. 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

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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: 0

I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All the cliches are true about parenting. All I've ever wanted to do is be a father, but there's this existential mirror that's held up when you have a kid. Votes: 0

Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes depends on an especially hoary one. Votes: 0

Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliches is that they are tired and dull. And that's where writers must try to be artful. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches. Votes: 0

Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches, the acquisitive instinct, or lust for anything whatsoever. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with Votes: 0

De-radicalisation begins by breaking down the logic which once seemed unassailable and rethinking what you are fighting for and why. That is hard to do when Islamists and Islamophobes feed off each other's hateful cliches. Votes: 0