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

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

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

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

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

The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.
Paul Muldoon

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

We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.
Marc Almond

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

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