Cliches Quotes

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

War, Powerful, End

Let's have some new cliches.
Samuel Goldwyn

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

History, True, American

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
Jose Saramago

Positive, Doubt, Until

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

True, Cliche, Untrue

That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.
David Bowie

Life, God, True

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

Truth, Means, Rejecting

Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.
Miuccia Prada

Beauty, Fashion, Apart

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Alone, Nothing, Reality

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Read, Characters, Screenplay

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

Enough, Far, Idea

People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.
Steve Coogan

Same, Old, Becomes

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

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

Nothing, Wrong, Trade

I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.
Michel Hazanavicius

American, Talking, Maybe

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

Last, Avoid, Plague

I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to a lot of realism both in the language and in the structure of a book.
Jeffrey Eugenides

Book, Done, Both

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.
Jeff Daniels

True, Hard, Comedy

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.
Adrian Lyne

Book, Real, Rules

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

Live, Thanks, British

The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
Ben Stiller

Find, Plot, Generic

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.
Matthew Vaughn

Cliches are what make you understand something.
Matthew Vaughn

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
Alan Perlis

Computing, Field

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

Rather, Read, Story

Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true.
Douglas Wood

True, Hollywood

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
Dick Schaap

Adjectives, Prose, Permeated

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

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

Life, Small, Often

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.
Brad Holland

Art, Political, Agree

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