Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight!… — Burn Gorman Copy Share Image
Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one. — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
“It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. If what I feel is not precise than… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No… — Sade Adu Copy Share Image
Cliched characters are cliches because they're people being described by people who are on the outside. If you take two sentences from… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
“...he remembered his uncle saying once how little vocabulary man really needed to get comfortably and even efficiently through his life, how… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I will never be heard for what I have to say. Why? People like cliches which I find a mediocre bore and… — James Smith (me Copy Share Image
“They think in terms of a sentimental ballad. And that's what terrifies you about them. It isn't their cruelty, it isn't even… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Morals always sound like cliches, but usually cliches are based on things that are ultimate truths. Be grateful for what you have;… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
Sometimes you watch stuff and it's like, oh God - it's the obvious cliches of the genre. You've got to do better. — Charlie Heaton Copy Share Image
I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think… — Josh Lucas Copy Share Image
