Clich Quotes
112 quotes by 107 authors
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I think that people in general, whether they are male or female, who are inhibited by the clichés of what women are or what men…
— Debbie Harry
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A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.
— Richard Matheson
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The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the…
— D. A. Carson
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Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class.
— John Clellon Holmes
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It’s a cliché - but true - that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do it well.
— Yanni
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Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.
— Paul Halmos
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I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.
— Philip Guedalla
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What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it. You find it, and then you are no longer free to follow…
— Victor Serge
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I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.
— Herman Kahn
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To be cliché, death is a part of life and it's going to happen to all of us. I have the blessing of getting a…
— Randy Pausch
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When people would ask me what I’m addicted to, I always said ‘music.’ And while they’d laugh it off like it’s a cliché, I’m actually…
— Blake Lewis
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No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the…
— Edward Bernays
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John Stowell plays jazz, but he doesn’t use any of the clichés; he has an incredible originality. John is a master creator.
— Larry Coryell
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In the streets of New York between seven and nine in the morning you will see the slow procession of dog and downer proceeding from…
— John Steinbeck
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The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of…
— Gerald Brenan
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How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town? It's the age-old thing…
— Mike Quade
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If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing. In fact, most of my work is concerned with destroying—or at least deconstructing—conventional ideas…
— Miuccia Prada
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If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation.
— Bradford Morrow
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Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.
— Miguel Syjuco
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To idealize: all writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the heart.
— Martin Amis
Who Wrote These Clich Quotes
107 authors contributed a total of 112 Clich Quotes, led by these top contributors: