“My life as well as my writing are guided by creed in lieu of clichés Carl Henegan” — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
People love cliches. If you can give people cliches, that's very good TV, then. — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all. — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find. — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
Morals always sound like cliches, but usually cliches are based on things that are ultimate truths. Be grateful for what you have;… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No… — Sade Adu Copy Share Image
I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think… — Josh Lucas Copy Share Image
Sometimes you watch stuff and it's like, oh God - it's the obvious cliches of the genre. You've got to do better. — Charlie Heaton Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
“It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. If what I feel is not precise than… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from. — David Twohy Copy Share Image
“...he remembered his uncle saying once how little vocabulary man really needed to get comfortably and even efficiently through his life, how… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convince ourselves that the parade of unwelcome and despised is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Cliched characters are cliches because they're people being described by people who are on the outside. If you take two sentences from… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take out that… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong." However, the fault is not in the wine,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“[S]ince you are angry at me without reason, you attack me harshly with, "Oh outrageous presumption! Oh excessively foolish pride! Oh opinion… — Christine de Pizan 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
When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
“And sometimes, even though Dad said Dr. Snow was the best psychologist in the city and a very famous man, Jess thought… — Judith Clarke 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
“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