Quotes About Overused

The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.

The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.

When you're writing about people that are not very well off, you seem to see the kitchen sink. So it was a bit of a sort of cosy phrase that got used a bit too much.

Sam was her friend, but "friend" was a broad category, wasn't it? "Friend" was a word that was overused to the point that it had no meaning at all.

It's unfortunate and worth noting that the same word we use to describe [pathological anxiety], we also use to describe our feelings about a high-pressure day at the office. The word 'anxiety', in all of its derivations, is among the most overused in the English language.

Is 'tired old cliché' one?

I'm a cliché," he said softly. "What?" "I'm a story everyone's heard a thousand times.

and love is a word used too much and much too soon.

Has 'jump the shark' jumped the shark?" ("Granted, Jump the Shark is a brilliant cultural concept.… But now the damn thing is everywhere.") Like any good meme, it spawned mutations. The "jumping the shark" entry in Wikipedia advised in 2009, "See also: jumping the couch; nuking the fridge.

I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused.

A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.

There are a few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times, they no longer work.

Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius.

A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

'Fair' is, like, this incredibly overused term in negotiations: 'I just want what's fair.' 'What's the fair market price?'

I don't like to use 'gourmet' because it has become so overused and abused.

I believe that 'ego' is much overused term.

Feminism is just an overused term and people make too much noise about it for no reason.

I'm human. The single most overused excuse on the planet for doing the absolute wrong thing.

The most irritating thing about clichés, I decided, was how frequently they were true.

People throw legacy and dynasty around a bit too much.

I consider logic to be like a roundhouse kick: limited in use and effectiveness, predictable, easy to defend against, and just generally tired from being overused.

If I see another game that involves a kidnapped princess, queen, king or other royal family member, I'll scream. In the same vein, I think the karate genre has been done to death.