Cliche Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and I really know who I am now. There was a long period like I was drifting or floating through life, and now I feel like I have a definitive target - and future.

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

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

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.

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.

I feel like a cliche.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I said, wouldn't it be nice, instead of having these women fight with each other over men, which seems to be more of a cliche, wouldn't it be wonderful if they were the true comrades and it took these men much more time to infiltrate their friendships.

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.

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.

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.

There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.

The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.

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

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

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.

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

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.