Cliches Quotes · Page 2

“A cliche is a cliche because it works”

— Feige Gornish

Cliches are cliches because they are true.

— Harsha Bhogle

“Cliche is Truth's most loyal friend...”

— Rafael Reyes

Let's have some new cliches.

— Samuel Goldwyn

cliches are truisms and all truisms are true

— Jack Kerouac

“Cliches remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that other have trod this ground long ago.”

— Miguel Syjuco

Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.

— Vince Lombardi

Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.

— Simon Van Booy

When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.

— Kenny Smith

It's hard not to use cliches when talking about parenthood.

— Tom Fletcher

There's a way forward by not relying on the old cliches.

— Lee Evans

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.

— Brad Holland

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

— W. S. Di Piero

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

— Amanda Shires

If you look around, 90 percent of marriages are cliches - people aren't genuinely happy even if they look happy together.

— Rahul Dev

“If you distance yourself from reality and just cling to cliches about democracy find yourself a different job than analyzing politics”

— Hany Ghoraba

Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliches is that they are tired and dull.…

— Miguel Syjuco

“A society where everyone is following his own unique path has a much better chance to find the truth than the society…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another…

— Robert Gottlieb

I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female…

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

“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

“Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality,…

— Hannah Arendt

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

“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

When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know…

— Moderata Fonte

“...he remembered his uncle saying once how little vocabulary man really needed to get comfortably and even efficiently through his life, how…

— William Faulkner

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories…

— Umberto Eco

“She looked so disappointed, so grieved and desperate that Clem longed to comfort her, only he couldn't think of thing to say…

— Judith Clarke

“It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“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

“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course…

— Christopher Hitchens

“And sometimes, even though Dad said Dr. Snow was the best psychologist in the city and a very famous man, Jess thought…

— Judith Clarke

This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.

— Sylvia Brownrigg

Being a dad you realise that it's not about you any more. All the cliches are true I think.

— Tom Fletcher

When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch.

— Bette Davis

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

— Phil Elverum

Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.

— Michael Nesmith

People love cliches. If you can give people cliches, that's very good TV, then.

— Michael Hirst

“My life as well as my writing are guided by creed in lieu of clichés Carl Henegan”

— Carl Henegan