Quotes About Cliche

The mind that relies on cliché does not really know what it is saying.

The effect of this was to make me abjure hackneyed expressions from an early age, so I suppose I benefited from my mother's phrasal insouciance in the long run, although it's possible that my automatic eschewal of clichés occasionally drove me from the Scylla of ridicule into the turbid Charybdisian eddies of sesquipedalian obfuscation...though I trust not.

A cliché is just something that's commonly true.

Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché?

Il problema con i luoghi comuni è che, purtroppo, spesso dicono la verità. In modo grossolano, ma la dicono.

Claire De Haven and the company cared for the plight of the world. Claire De Haven and the company extolled tyrants and lived for adversarial cliché.

So many women around the world in so many different career paths and places are expected to be perfect and I know that it sounds cliché, but none of us are.

I hate the cliche of 'just have fun,' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids.

I briefly flirted with the idea of more stable career choices but they never excited me. I know it's a bit of a cliche but I remember doing school plays in primary school and feeling at home on the stage.

In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.

How could someone so cool, so different be such a cliche when it came to love?

Cuando lo concreto se pierde, es reemplazado por los clichés. Por eso debemos dar nuestros testimonios. Por cada recuerdo que se pierde llega un tópico en su lugar. El mundo del cliché es un mundo con amnesia.

a being as dependent on his cultural inheritance as man cannot escape convention so easily: and the desire to do so has itself become a cliché.

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

People always say that once it goes away you forget the pain. It's a cliche of childbirth. You forget the pain. I don;t happen to agree. I remember the pain. What you really forget is love.

As a rule of thumb, I'd say one cliché per [Romance]--and then be damn sure you can make it work. But if you're going to try to write the virginal amnesiac twin disguised as a boy mistaken for the mother (or father depending how well the disguise works) of a secret baby, honey, you better have some serious skills. Or seek therapy.

De quantos clichés, pensou Malory, precisava um homem para atenuar o impacto de um soco?

The most villainous move any person can make is tying a woman to the railroad tracks.

PLATITUDE. An idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

In a mass culture, those few ideas or feelings unique to a person are easily deformed into conventional clichés: otherwise, everyone would be an artist.

I had always been the theater nerd at Northwestern University. I knew I wanted to do acting, but I hated the idea of being this cliche - a girl from L.A. who decides to be an actress. I wanted more than that, and I had always loved politics, so I ended up changing my major completely, and double-majoring in theater and international relations.

I had always been the theater nerd at Northwestern University. I knew I wanted to do acting, but I hated the idea of being this cliche - a girl from L.A. who decides to be an actress.