Clich Quotes

112 Clich quotes by 107 unique authors

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to… — Christopher Lasch
Using clichés is a substitute for thinking — George Orwell
Hush, little bright line, don’t you cry You’ll be a cliché by and by. — Fred Allen
The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly… — Robert Jay Lifton
Clichés are static, the emotion behind them long spent. If you are tempted to use them, here is a saying of my mother’s: Fang pi… — Amy Tan
Life and love inspire me. I think reinventing yourself is vital to your survival as an artist and a human being. I know it’s cliché… — Madonna Ciccone
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks… — Ezra Pound
Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not… — Sean O'Casey
It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it… — Martin Amis
The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in… — Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
No 'mise en scène' has the right to be repeated, just as no two personalities are ever the same. As soon as a 'mise en… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Feeling confident - or pretending that you feel confident - is necessary to reach for opportunities. It's a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they're… — Sheryl Sandberg
I love acting and I know that's a cliché, but I didn't really, I was very naïve when it came to the whole being recognized… — Kit Harington
It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally. — Jeremy Piven
If it is a clichй to say athletics build character as well as muscle, then I subscribe to the clich. — Gerald R. Ford
A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain, — Verlyn Klinkenborg
The key to trading success is emotional discipline. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money trading… I know… — Victor Sperandeo
This is a cliché, but never listen to anyone who says “You can’t do that”. Those are usually the people who can’t do it. Not… — James Altucher
The Brightwood Stillness is a novel I could not put down. On the surface, it is the lives of normal people in trying circumstances. Deeper,… — Andrew X. Pham
Key statements made by latter-day prophets are not trite clichés. They are vital counsel to us from the Lord through his prophets. We should ponder… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
I grew up reading biographies on groups, and I love all that. The thing about biographies, it's the old cliché but it's true - a… — Stevie Jackson
What tends to happen in most movies is that strip clubs are used as a short hand for unsympathetic, sleazy people. And that's just a… — Steve Coogan
You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t… — Jeanette Winterson
Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés. — Vladimir Nabokov
Is 'tired old cliché' one? — Steven Wright

Who Wrote These Clich Quotes

107 authors contributed a total of 112 Clich Quotes, led by these top contributors: