Cliches Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

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.

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.

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.

I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

Most of my cliches aren't original.

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.

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.

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.

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

Cliches are what make you understand something.

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.

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.

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

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.

Let's have some new cliches.

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

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.