Quotes About Cliche

Interstiality is a theme that is simultaneously genuinely interesting and potentially quite useful, and also a terrible cliché, so if you're going to use it, it helps to be at least respectfully skeptical about the wilder claims of its theoretical partisans, I think.

His fidelity to the cliche transcended the necessity to communicate.

Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.

he always stressed that 'one could go down from floor to floor far below street level and find … yellow warrens'. A literally underground culture, already a journalistic cliché.

It's a cliché, but also a deep truth (as cliché's tend to be), that you can't love another person very well if you don't love yourself.

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

I think British men build up the idea of us French girls having some magic extra sex appeal so much, they lose their heads. I can't really understand the whole thing - but it makes me laugh. It's such a cliche to think all French girls are well dressed, elegant, sophisticated and sexy. Some are utter slobs, I promise you that.

Everything in their whole bloody world is a cliché. Everything is born out of a cliché, rests on a cliché, survives by a cliché. And they believe in the clichés - there's no hope.

It's going to sound cliche, but I started acting as an emotional outlet.

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.

It's something you learn after your second theme party: It's all been done before.

There's art on the show that's really bad - these cliché Abstract Expressionist gestural things. It's almost like extensions of my performance, because in the scene I'm really mad.

Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, like many clichés, so lame & banal on the surface, actually expresses a great & terrible truth.

Think of the old cliché about "the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master." This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in the head. And the truth is that most of these suicides are actually dead long before they pull the trigger.

Clichés earned their status as clichés because they're so obviously true

Si scopre che tanto più è insipida la frase fatta ...., tanto più affilati sono i canini della verità vera che nasconde

It starts to turn out that the vapider the AA cliche, the sharper the canines of the real truth it covers.

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

All love as all life is cliché until you look beyond the obvious, until you look for what's hidden within what's displayed.

So I have gone all the way around Robin Hood's barn to arrive at the old platitudes, which I guess is the process of growing up.

It would have been quite in order to slap his face, but what a cliché, she thought, and besides she was off balance. She had always wanted to do it to someone, but would have preferred someone more robust; so, between one thing and another, the moment passed.

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

That drew a mocking laugh from Lillian. "Really, someone should tell St. Vincent that he's a living cliché. He has become the embodiment of everything they say about reformed rakes.

The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.