Quotes About Overused

I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.

I think the term 'friend' itself has lost almost all of its exclusivity. Even the term 'good friend' is overused. Adding the word 'vital' provides a clear definition of what we mean.

If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit.

Sometimes a sound gets overused. There is such a thing as a good saxophone, but it's like those fields in agriculture - they need to rest for a year or so. You need time to burn all the saxophones and start from scratch.

Speaking of the information superhighway, we have all given each other official permission to administer a beating to whoever uses that accursed term. We're so sick of it!

Because "Platitude" was a language everyone spoke

The word 'modern' is a cliche.

Depression is, especially these days, an overused term to be sure, but never one associated with anything wild, anything about dancing all night with a lampshade on your head and then going home and killing yourself.

You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.

I've always worked hard to create my own style. Nobody sounds like me. I've heard them call me 'legendary.' That feels pretty good... though the word is overused these days.

Nationalism' has become a much overused term, subject to far too many and often muddled definitions.

All plots are cliche.

I think it tends to be overused and can be a little bit gimmicky. A lot of people are using 3-D now because they feel have they have to... that will come and go and the pictures that deserve to be in 3-D will continue to be. When it's done bad, it can make you carsick.

Everyone's drunk on the term 'blog.'

The unsigned will is one of those tropes of detective fiction that I've come to dislike, only because it's so overused. In real life, a lot of people don't even bother to make a will but then we've all managed to persuade ourselves that we're going to live for ever. They certainly don't go round the place threatening to change it in order to give someone the perfect excuse to come and kill them. It looked as if Alan Conway had done exactly that.

'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring light of ad slogans and corporate public relations. I never thought about anything as brave anymore; it just seemed like a flabby, glib cliche.

That said, Snark can be effective (and funny) when done well, and without clichés. One of the problems with Snark nowadays is that it's overused, and therefore writers in this category have difficulty standing out from the crowd. Mike Nelson (of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame) has written some very funny essays and books in this style.

It's tough to have an authentic relationship with awe in the age of awesome, a word that has become so overused as to be drained of its meaning.

'Design' is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

I'm getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan.

Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

I think it gets overused and tossed around in ways that aren't true. Every impressive achievement is not genius.

I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.