The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer… — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image
Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and… — Ann Shulgin Copy Share Image
To know me is to love me. This cliche is popular for a reason, because most of us, I imagine, believe deep… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together… — Genevieve Gorder Copy Share Image
The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets,… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
“Teen angst is so boring, isn't it? I try so hard not to be a cliche, but it's like written in my… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (…) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a… — Denys Johnson-Davies Copy Share Image
There is such a cliche to certain roles that all I can do is to try to make them realistic and work… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true.… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
“A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It's a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence. I could… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
I think all the simple things can and do still work - holding your child's hand while walking across the street will… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I said, wouldn't it be nice, instead of having these women fight with each other over men, which seems to be more… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you… — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
The world doesn't revolve around me anymore. Now it's all about this little baby. I come home after a rough day, I… — Michael Easton Copy Share Image
You try to make the most of each day. I'm not big into setting real specific goals. I think, really, if you… — Scott Tolzien Copy Share Image
Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
My whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche...it's one of the reasons a lot of my generation are always on the… — Beck Copy Share Image
Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I do feel like the world is a better and happier place now that my son is here. That's so cliche, but… — Tia Mowry Copy Share Image
It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
I would feel ill without theater. It's kind of a cliche, but every time you make a mistake, you really do have… — Nina Arianda Copy Share Image
Puppets and dolls are the gateways between human beings and objects. There are tons of cliches to spout about puppetry and animism,… — Kalan Sherrard Copy Share Image
'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“Spring, spring! Bytuene Mershe ant Averil, when spray biginneth to spring! When shaws be sheene and swards full fayre, and leaves both… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on… — Edmund Snow Carpenter Copy Share Image
One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“As for clichés, they’re an illusion. When you think about it, anything could be considered a cliché. It’s when you really bring… — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
I think we're always trying to avoid tropes. And I think that "Game of Thrones" has almost made killing people a cliche.… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
“Our lack of originality is something we usefully forget as we hunch over our—to us—ever-fascinating lives. My friend M., leaving his wife… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I'm just not somebody who can sit around doing nothing, and all of us in the Foo Fighters have our own things… — Taylor Hawkins Copy Share Image
“It's very... christmas movie. Like the cheesy ones on channel 5, where some frosty bitch from the city breaks up with a… — Juno Dawson Copy Share Image
“The cliche is that misery loves company. Another is that there is fellowship among thieves. But thieves do not seek the consoling… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy. But, I wanted to put a somewhat different spin on it. The whole trope… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“As an opener, I'd like to state that elves are certainly NOT cliché. It doesn't matter if they all have pointy ears,… — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
