“Cliches remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that other have trod this ground long ago.” — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches. — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“You're not being fair," I said. "Life isn't fair." "Yeah, and no man is an island. Any other cliches you'd like to… — Cecily White Copy Share Image
What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female… — Wendi McLendon-Covey Copy Share Image
I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound… — Gary McCord Copy Share Image
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… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
“I understand why sometimes people speak in cliches because sometimes there is no other way to describe something.” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches.… — Bill Laswell Copy Share Image
When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something… — Terrence Malick Copy Share Image
“If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Desi, Desi, Desi what am I going to do with you? (Kyrian) Don't you dare take that flippant tone with me! (Desiderius)… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“i do not say 'good-bye.' i believe that's one of the bullshittiest words ever invented. it's not like you're given the choice… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
One of the problems of this genre is that there are cliches everywhere, and you've got to be careful and watch out.… — Adrian Hodges Copy Share Image
The Internet now is completely full of memes, and it's interesting, the idea that instead of having a sign crotched on your… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
“As I stated earlier, I do not believe there is anything inherently wrong with even the most overused elements of epic fantasy.… — Alec Austin Copy Share Image
“It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
“Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“[S]ince you are angry at me without reason, you attack me harshly with, "Oh outrageous presumption! Oh excessively foolish pride! Oh opinion… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong." However, the fault is not in the wine,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And sometimes, even though Dad said Dr. Snow was the best psychologist in the city and a very famous man, Jess thought… — Judith Clarke Copy Share Image
Soundgarden are kind of the masters of writing songs that aren't pop cliches. — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
Being a dad you realise that it's not about you any more. All the cliches are true I think. — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them. — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch. — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
They're all true - the cliches like 'one day at time' and 'ups and downs.' — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
![“If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out [in his History of England ], she was locked up, beaten…” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/755/virginia-woolf-49_abuse_if-woman-had-no-existence-save-in-the-fi_1851263.jpg)
![“[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight.” quote by Christine de Pizan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2f4/christine-de-pizan-13257_anti-feminist_i-f-you-seek-in-every-way-to-minimise-my_2483102.png)
![“Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful] is contrary to the truth, just as I will show you with a hypothetical case. Let us suppose they…” quote by Christine de Pizan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/57a/christine-de-pizan-13257_abuse_causing-any-damage-or-harm-to-one-party_1474061.jpg)
![“[S]ince you are angry at me without reason, you attack me harshly with, "Oh outrageous presumption! Oh excessively foolish pride! Oh opinion uttered too quickly and thoughtlessly by the mouth of a woman! A woman who condemns a man of high understanding and dedicated study, a man who, by great…” quote by Christine de Pizan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bfc/christine-de-pizan-13257_accusations_s-ince-you-are-angry-at-me-without-reaso_2269658.png)
