Clichés are static, the emotion behind them long spent. If you are tempted to use them, here is a saying of my… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
His temperament is always there to be questioned because he plays on the edge. That is just the way he plays.It is… — Rio Ferdinand Copy Share Image
Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Both my best and worst memories are of my time in Nicaragua. The experience as a whole was totally redeeming and amazing.… — Eden Sher Copy Share Image
In high school, theater was all I ever wanted to do. I didn't see that I was going to set it aside… — Mare Winningham Copy Share Image
“Plenty of masterpieces are just one cliché after another, Mozart for example, but that's quite natural, because if you think about it,… — Thomas Ades Copy Share Image
It's so cliche, but I love the feeling you get from improv that anything can happen. The audience is already accepting that… — Andy Daly Copy Share Image
A fantastic, gleeful, chrome-plated-slick debut of a novel. In Jonathan Chase, Markham has created the perfect cliche-shattering super spy while honoring the… — Greg Rucka Copy Share Image
I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard… — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.A. soon after graduation to… — Pedro Pascal Copy Share Image
It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains… — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
There was a fine line between love and hate you heard that cliche all the time. But no one told you that… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to… — James Gray Copy Share Image
As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery"… — A. C. Cuza Copy Share Image
Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It's become a cliche to think of marriage as a disaster area and a war zone. Although political shows are really popular… — Tim Daly Copy Share Image
The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works,… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I think British men build up the idea of us French girls having some magic extra sex appeal so much, they lose… — Eva Green Copy Share Image
“I know, I know…there’s something cliché about that. The heroine initially wanting to clobber a protagonist male, but later realizing that he’s… — Angela N. Blount Copy Share Image
A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
There's a tendency to locate the cliche of the 'strong woman' exclusively in the present day, as if those many women who… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
Do you have a Wish?' he asked, referring to this organization, The Genie Foundation, which is in the business of granting sick… — John Green Copy Share Image
New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches… — Theo James Copy Share Image
We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging cliches safely from the sideline. Instead, he enters into our… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
Hazel GRACE!” he shouted. “You did not use your one dying Wish to go to Disney World with your parents.” “Also Epcot… — John Green Copy Share Image
This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
The first time I ever met Stephen King, he came up to me, and we went to shake hands, and he had,… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
Thinking about your training should put a smile on your face. As cliche as it sounds, you are worth all the time… — Summer Sanders Copy Share Image
Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day… — Peter James Copy Share Image
I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
