Clich Quotes

112 Clich quotes by 107 unique authors

Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. — Paul Halmos
I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford. — Philip Guedalla
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation. — Bradford Morrow
Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago. — Miguel Syjuco
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
For years I have made it my mission to destroy the influence of the Christian clich, 'the safest place to be is in the center… — Erwin McManus
That’s sort of a cliché about parents. We all believe that our children are the most beautiful children in the world. But the thing is,… — Heather Armstrong
I plan on having parties when I’m 30. I plan on having fun when I’m old. Any notion of THE BEST years comes from clichéd… — Marina Keegan
It has become a cliché to announce that 'we live in a remix culture'... What was referred to in post-modern times as quoting, appropriation, and… — Lev Manovich
I cried over beauty, I cried over pain, and the other time I cried because I felt nothing. I can't help it. I'm just a… — Keanu Reeves
A good salesman, as the old (and politically incorrect) saying goes, can sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo. It's a cliché, but there's some truth… — Josh Kaufman
Save me from trendy religion that makes cheap clichés out of timeless truths. — Rich Mullins
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off. — Karl Kraus
If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you… — David Foster Wallace
First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly about the weather,… — Julianna Baggott

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