I just like cliches. I like tvtropes.com. It's pretty much my bible. — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
I try my best to not just avoid cliches but to write with some meaning. — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Cliches remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that other have trod this ground long ago.” — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
“I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and… — Rachel Machacek Copy Share Image
Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
“Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
“ Do You Come Here Often?' and 'Be Part of the Action' Have Become Clichéd "Coast Guard Sees Increasing Need for Icebreakers"—headline,… — James Taranto Copy Share Image
I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes… — Josephine de La Baume Copy Share Image
There's something a bit embarrassing about saying you're a magician. It immediately suggests all these horrendous cliches, let alone that you're a… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
“One of the more ignominious features of love was that you could only express it with cliches...it made you sound like a… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are… — Charlotte Brontë 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
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
“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
“Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality,… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was that I wanted to see what I had learned, what I had read, what I had imagined, that I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Now, it is frequently asserted that, with women, the job does not come first. What (people cry) are women doing with this… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wickedness is now such that… — Augustine of Hippo 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
“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
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