Hackneyed Quotes
13 quotes by 10 authors
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No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters,…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it.
— Lawrence Watt-Evans
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Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing…
— Rob Brezsny
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My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest…
— Sergei Prokofiev
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There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back…
— Chad Harbach
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What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even…
— Kenneth Turan
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My coach once told me "there's no "I" in "team." I responded there's also no "I" in "hackneyed." Then I had to run 12 laps.
— Lev L. Spiro
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Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.
— Isaac Asimov
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The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates…
— Stanislaw Lem
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I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.
— Sergei Prokofiev
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I never take any notice of reviews-unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about my lizard eyes…
— Robert Mitchum
Who Wrote These Hackneyed Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 13 Hackneyed Quotes as follows: