Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
Harold Evans

Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.
Michael Nesmith

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.
Ron Paul

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
Dick Schaap

Cliches are what make you understand something.
Matthew Vaughn

I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.
Robert Morgan

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.
Dick Schaap

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 does the opposite.
Josh Lucas

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
Evelyn Waugh

I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.
Douglas Wood

I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.
Charles Olson

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.
Timothy Spall

I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.
Brad Holland

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
Newt Gingrich

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

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
William Safire

Let's have some new cliches.
Samuel Goldwyn

Most of my cliches aren't original.
Chuck Knox

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.
George Stigler

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