Cliches Quotes

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

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.

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.

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 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.

Cliches are what make you understand something.

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.

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

Let's have some new cliches.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

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

Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

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.

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 one of the cliches that has grown up.

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

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

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.

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