Quotes About Cliche

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

Cliche is Truth's most loyal friend...

Beat Happening know that the deep moments in our lives don't extract profundities from us; rather, it is clichés that are the endless, involuntary spew of the lover's discourse.

The very triteness of it seemed to ensure its likelihood.

The problem with the truth is, it's so often mild and clichéd.

Is a platitude so deeply felt still just a platitude? No, I decided. A platitude is precisely what is left of a truth after it has been drained of all emotion.

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.

Her words were generically profound, like a Hallmark card I'd skim over to get to the check.

Every romantic movie with a grocery shopping scene had to have a baguette sticking out of the bag. And a bundle of flowers.

Hush, little bright line, don't you cry You'll be a clich

If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation.

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

I've taken a lot of pride in that, and not feeling any pressure to yield or to bend to what someone else's imagination of who I should be is. I'm grateful for that, and I still want to continue to do that. It can sound cliche, 'be true to yourself,' but that does mean something.

At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challenges, you have a chance to put your house in order. It's a cliche, but it's underestimated as an analgesic on all levels. Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable.

Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.

I don't want to slam the cute and fun movies out there, but it gets old.

It's become a cliche to say that a piece of drama is about 'the nature of truth.' But 'Rectify' so openly plays with the slippery nature of memory that the label directly applies.

I like guys with a nice smile. I know it's cliche, but it's so true! I like a guy with a nice smile and nice eyes.

Why do bad guys in movies always love to whistle really slowly?

I love the casting process. It's a cliché but I think it's the most important part of the process. I really enjoy it too. I love putting that jigsaw puzzle of people together.

She pulls upright, wiping her face 'But that's another one of those clichés I don't get. The light. I feel it sometimes. It makes sense that you have to beat back the darkness, but I just don't understand why there's darkness in the first place. Sometimes I feel like the world has fractured into a million pieces and they're closing in on me, and I have to push each piece back with my hands and my feet and my head to keep it from squeezing me to death.

'Downton Abbey' is just one cliche after another, and it is a really, really poor piece of drama. But that's only me talking. That's just my take on it.