Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them. — Michael Nesmith 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
The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing... to stay… — Sylvie Meis Copy Share Image
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I would love to be part of dark comedies. I love them! They are no-nonsense, no spoonfeeding, and the norms and cliches… — Paresh Rawal Copy Share Image
“ Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British.… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches. — Douglas Wood 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]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or… — Christine de Pizan 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I believe that love dies but hope springs eternal. Sometimes I believe that hope dies but love springs eternal. Sometimes I… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the same… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many… — Christine de Pizan 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
“When people dis fantasy—mainstream readers and SF readers alike—they are almost always talking about one sub-genre of fantastic literature. They are talking… — China Miéville 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
“In a crisis perhaps it is old clichés one clings to, like a child to a parent.” — Graham Greene 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
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
I originated my own cliches, but I'm finding that's not working for me anymore. — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
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