Cliche Quotes
297 Cliche quotes by 271 unique authors
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Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches, the…
— Lawren Harris
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What is good today may be a cliche tomorrow.
— Alexey Brodovitch
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The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches.
— Alexey Brodovitch
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Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more…
— Ann Shulgin
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
— Stephen Fry
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Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
— Newt Gingrich
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Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot…
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Let's have some new cliches.
— Samuel Goldwyn
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You are who you surround yourself with. I know that's such a cliche quote, but it's true.
— Selena Gomez
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Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit…
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's…
— Ellie Goulding
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People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.
— Steve Coogan
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All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the…
— Penelope Cruz
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All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.
— Macaulay Culkin
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Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.
— Jeff Daniels
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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science…
— Richard Dawkins
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Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really…
— Tom DeLonge
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I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last…
— Cameron Diaz
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My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am…
— Beth Ditto
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Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to…
— David Duchovny
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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
— Harold Evans
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I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.
— Sally Field
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It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very…
— Bruce Forsyth
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Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most…
— Lee Haney
Who Wrote These Cliche Quotes
271 authors contributed a total of 297 Cliche Quotes, led by these top contributors: