Cliche Quote by Peter Falk

Using clichés is a substitute for thinking

— George Orwell

I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put…

— Arthur Phillips

Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.

— John Cleese

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what…

— Agnes Martin

“brainstorm your way past the clichés”

— K.M. Weiland

If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause…

— Doug Liman

My ideas often come from strong mental images. When I'm observing some relatively ordinary thing, I'll think, "What if…" and out of that brainstorming…

— Cassandra Clare

I originated my own cliches, but I'm finding that's not working for me anymore.

— Tom Bodett

“I was walking around in an almost blind, crazy rage of madness. There was a story burning a hole in my brain, and it…

— Leigh Hershkovich

Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Most of my cliches aren't original.

— Chuck Knox

“An idea in your head is merely an idle notion. But an idea written down, that's the beginning of something! Stripped down to its…

— Patricia T. O'Conner