Cliches Quotes

106 quotes by 100 authors

All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks! — Sade Adu
That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And… — David Bowie
There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole,… — Jo Brand
The computing field is always in need of new cliches. — Alan Perlis
The only valid reason to use clichÃ©s is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer does not respect… — Leonard Bishop
Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches. — Densey Clyne
When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to… — Edward Weston
I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie… — Josh Lucas
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches. — Eugene Ionesco
I'm one of the cliches that has grown up. — Charles Olson
We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and… — Marc Almond
The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm… — Paul Muldoon
Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion. — Umberto Eco
There was nothing that I ever did, no conscious effort to do one kind of behavior or another, I can't explain what it was, but… — Larry Coryell
Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it is… — Norbert Wiener
The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation of writing skills… — Mihai Nadin
I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I… — Dick Schaap
Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them. — Vince Lombardi
If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on the audience, repeating… — Edmund Snow Carpenter
Cliches are what make you understand something. — Matthew Vaughn

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