In baseball and sex, cliches are usually true: pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn't… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem.… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“A look says more than words alone. That's a cliche, of course. But a cliche, also says more than words alone.” — Herman Koch Copy Share Image
The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
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… — Robbie Williams Copy Share Image
This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak. — Sylvia Brownrigg Copy Share Image
To avoid sounding like a cliche, I won't say I want to get proposed to in Paris, but Paris. I want it… — Betty Who Copy Share Image
Here was the astounding fact: the race did go forward; the race did achieve; and in every way the race grew better.… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I want to be happy. I realized that being happy isn't necessarily about getting there, it's how you get there. It almost… — Ben Huh Copy Share Image
America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
For years, we've been bludgeoned with the cliche "information is power." But information isn't power. After all, who's got the most information… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
It's almost a cliche that great Silicon Valley entrepreneurs don't go sit on a beach when they make a lot of money;… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
I don't know, I find that honestly, the stand-up thing in some ways is a little bit of a cliche to carry… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
As cliche as it sounds, don't stop. I feel like so often people will have talent or have potential, and they'll quit… — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
“Frantically, he scans the room, settling on the closet. Brayden sighs, 'Seriously, dude? Must we live the cliche?' ” — Lynn Kelling Copy Share Image
“Two clichés make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves ,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and… — Charlie Hunter Copy Share Image
I have kids, I want something left for them. It's a cliche, I know, but it's true. That's what drives me every… — Laurie David Copy Share Image
Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliche, but the biggest lesson I… — Lisa Ling Copy Share Image
It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person… — Bruce Forsyth Copy Share Image
I think it is tragic that a situation should arise where civilians on any side are killed. But it is almost a… — Joe Slovo Copy Share Image
I didn't get into this for fame, I genuinely didn't. I love acting, and I know that's a cliche, but I didn't,… — Kit Harington Copy Share Image
There's that old cliche that art is never finished, only abandoned. That's the nice thing about comics. It forces you to abandon… — Jonathan Hickman Copy Share Image
I know it sounds cliche, but to give back is important. Sometimes we're given so much, we need to do something for… — Stefanie Scott Copy Share Image
I'm one of the lucky artists in Nashville that gets to - I know it sounds cliche - but just write from… — Walker Hayes Copy Share Image
'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
This is so cliche, but my beauty icon would have to be Angelina Jolie. She looks like she wears natural makeup, but… — Tila Tequila Copy Share Image
I seek and I find dead reactions. People kill time being cliche. Play a card but it'll never be a fraction. Feeble… — Luke Garner Copy Share Image
“There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Really?" Risa said, disgusted. "'What do we have here?' Is that your best line? If you're going to attack a defenseless girl… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Here's the thing: If you're taking roles that aren't intimidating you, and I think this is a cliche that a lot of… — Matt Lauria Copy Share Image
One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The Philippines, it has a politics of patronage. Family and favors, in addition to the old cliche of guns, goons and gold,… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true. — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
