Cliche Quote by W. S. Di Piero Download Open image “Every cliche is true, right? That's why they're cliches.” — W. S. Di Piero ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cliche
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Deeply exciting, though, cliché was, as a concept. It was truth misted by overexpression, wasn't it, like a structure seen in a fog, something… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Some days, who can stare at swathes of sky, leafage and bad-complected whale-gray streets, tailpipes and smokestacks orating sepia exhaust, or the smaller enthusiasms… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
One of the appeals of William Carlos Williams to me is that he was many different kinds of poet. He tried out many different… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
This constant stream of qualia we feel in our stomachs. The big-leafed plant lifts its wings to greet the planet's chemistry, the sun arrives… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
When I came into consciousness as a writer when I was in my early 20s, I just assumed that a writer did - a… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
You can't be a poet certainly of my generation and not have deep in your animal brain the comment of William Carlos Williams, no… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
I've spent most of my life in cities, and so I've always lived with the curiosity about what makes for city cultures and how… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
A lot of the stuff that I see, because it's part of the work that I do, is look at pictures and photographs and… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
When I think about what really matters, it's not looking at art that has made the most difference or has been most shaping of… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
When you're writing - when I'm writing anyway - I'm writing out of different kinds of preoccupations and obsessions, different forms of drivenness, and… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's a bit cliche, but you can't go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you're a horrible writer, your own knowledge and… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
“As an opener, I'd like to state that elves are certainly NOT cliché. It doesn't matter if they all have pointy ears, or they… — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from. — David Twohy Copy Share Image
Audiences are hungry for something different. With binge-watching, they're hungry for interesting content they haven't seen before, and they want to be entertained. A… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis,… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are… — Josephine de La Baume Copy Share Image
You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that… — Markus Wolf Copy Share Image
When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
