I try my best to not just avoid cliches but to write with some meaning. — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
“Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one." True, but they're not all full of shit.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
I think it's high time we started questioning the old cliches like "Grunt big for Daddy." — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I just like cliches. I like tvtropes.com. It's pretty much my bible. — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find. — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
If you look around, 90 percent of marriages are cliches - people aren't genuinely happy even if they look happy together. — Rahul Dev Copy Share Image
Instinct is still important, but now I can easily identify problems like cliches and mixed metaphors, and I have a broader palette… — Amanda Shires 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
“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
“rather babble away and at least partially express something difficult than reproduce impeccable clichés” — Thomas Mann 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
I'm not a guy who likes cliches. I don't think that stereotypes and cliches are the end of the line, when it… — Chris Bauer 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
“I know, I know…there’s something cliché about that. The heroine initially wanting to clobber a protagonist male, but later realizing that he’s… — Angela N. Blount Copy Share Image
Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except… — Wolcott Gibbs 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“[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
“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
“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
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
“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
Being a dad you realise that it's not about you any more. All the cliches are true I think. — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them. — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image