I'm terrified of cliches.

All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!

— Sade Adu

Desi, Desi, Desi what am I going to do with you? (Kyrian) Don't you dare take that flippant tone with me! (Desiderius) Why ever…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I just like cliches. I like tvtropes.com. It's pretty much my bible.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

Instinct is still important, but now I can easily identify problems like cliches and mixed metaphors, and I have a broader palette to work…

— Amanda Shires

They're all true - the cliches like 'one day at time' and 'ups and downs.'

— Phil Elverum

“I understand why sometimes people speak in cliches because sometimes there is no other way to describe something.”

— Augusten Burroughs

Every cliche is true, right? That's why they're cliches.

— W. S. Di Piero

I'm sick of the old cliches. Bring me some new cliches.

— Samuel Goldwyn, Jr

When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.

— Kenny Smith

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

— William Safire

I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are…

— Josephine de La Baume

“It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. If what I feel is not precise than how should…

— Jeanette Winterson

There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.

— David Twohy

“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under…

— Charlotte Brontë

“That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take out that stuff about…

— Wallace Stegner