Cliche Quotes

297 Cliche quotes by 271 unique authors

I love my kids, and the moments I have with them, and it's kind of weird, it's such an age old cliche, but the way… — Michael Rapaport
I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous. — Jeremy Renner
Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague. — William Safire
The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch,… — Jerry Saltz
I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty,… — Jose Saramago
Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose. — Dick Schaap
I hate the cliche of 'just have fun,' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on… — Hope Solo
The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find. — Ben Stiller
On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves… — James Surowiecki
One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas. — Matt Taibbi
If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or… — Lewis Thomas
It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and… — Emma Watson
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. — Evelyn Waugh
I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be… — Robbie Williams
The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our society. Ever since… — Robert Winston
Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that… — Margaret Heffernan
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to… — John F. Kennedy
There was something about being in the vicinity of Grahame Coats that always made Fat Charlie (a) speak in cliches and (b) begin to daydream… — Neil Gaiman
I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and… — Umberto Eco
Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that. — Chuck Klosterman
Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés. — Vladimir Nabokov
Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a… — Dean Koontz
The reason 'closure' is a cliche is that it is used too often, too imprecisely, and doesn't in any case reflect reality. In reality, such… — Joseph Epstein
cliches are truisms and all truisms are true — Jack Kerouac
Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning… — Flannery O'Connor

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