It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
Richard Dawkins

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
Stephen Fry

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.
Robert D. Kaplan

It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.
Michael Pitt

It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
Nathan Lane

It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.
Irvine Welsh

It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come.
Suzanne Fields

My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.
Paul Taylor

Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.
Charlie Hunter

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.
Wolcott Gibbs

Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.
Lee Haney

So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.
Matthew Vaughn

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.
Adrian Lyne

The cliche is dead poetry.
Gerald Brenan

The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.
Genevieve Gorder

There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.
Al Goldstein

When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don't become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are.
Jennifer Beals

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
Tanith Lee

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 pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.
Markus Wolf