Clich Quotes

112 quotes by 107 authors

The clichÃ© organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law. — Vaclav Havel
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichÃ©s. — H. L. Mencken
The only valid reason to use clichÃ©s is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer does not respect… — Leonard Bishop
Mathematics is not a deductive science-that's a clichÃ©. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to… — Paul Halmos
What a story that would make! How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same sharp clichÃ©s, the same jagged… — Richard Bach
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichÃ©s that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters,… — W. Somerset Maugham
Beware of clichÃ©s. Not just the ÂclichÃ©s that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichÃ©s of response as well as expression. There are… — Geoff Dyer
My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit the subject. Develop… — William Zinsser
ClichÃ© openings in fantasy can include an opening scene set in a battle (and my peeve is that I donâ€™t know any of the characters… — Kristin Nelson
You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. Itâ€™s a clichÃ© thing to say, but every time you start… — Philip Seymour Hoffman
Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life...It would be clichÃ© to say my dad, my granddad. I think… — George Eads
One of the reasons why language is so sick right now and clichÃ©-ridden and lame and boring and laid-out, and about to go to sleep,… — Edward Dorn
Users of clichÃ©s frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms,… — Patrick Cockburn
But literature, I discovered, can also save you. Truly. Over the clichÃ© and through the truth, it can save. — Porochista Khakpour
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichÃ©s make us laugh but a hundred clichÃ©s moves us… — Umberto Eco
A too-expected image (clichÃ©) will never seem right, even if it is. — Robert Bresson
Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and… — Camille Paglia
The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichÃ©s, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to describe… — Sarah Thornton
The reasons there are so many clichÃ©s about universes inside of dewdrops is because there are universes inside of dewdrops. — Steven Kotler
I think what I do is find a clichÃ© and try to believe in it, try to get to where I don't laugh at it. — John Currin

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