When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches. — Samuel Goldwyn Copy Share Image
When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches. — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I originated my own cliches, but I'm finding that's not working for me anymore. — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches. — Alexey Brodovitch 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
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 Copy Share Image
If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound… — Gary McCord Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
“Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
“I understand why sometimes people speak in cliches because sometimes there is no other way to describe something.” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“So we all know the cliché characters: the Irish cop, the prostitute with a heart of gold, the writer with a drinking… — Craig Hart Copy Share Image
“It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make… — Mary Wollstonecraft 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
What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you… — Adrian Lyne Copy Share Image
First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were… — Jeff Lindsay 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
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
“ They have the diseases of the leisure class, like bulimia and attention deficit disorder, and for some reason, with all their… — Wendy Wunder Copy Share Image
“Indeed it may be said with some confidence that the average man never really thinks from end to end of his life.… — H.L. Mencken 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
“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
“There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I… — John Gower Copy Share Image
“[Women] complain about many clerks who attribute all sorts of faults to them and who compose works about them in rhyme, prose,… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that… — Christine de Pizan 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
“One of the most common platitudes we heard was that “words failed.” But words were not failing us at all. It was… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
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