Quotes About Cliche

What's disappointing is that it's just another mold, you leave one cliche and end up right back in another. Not really that subversive or out of control.

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

That´s the problem with the truth. Sometimes the truth is ambiguous, or really bad cliche.

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

I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.

Like most clichés, it is fundamentally true that the anxious, the melancholy, the manic, and the obsessed are more likely to become therapists than other people.

The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliche villains with a Russian accent and big muscles and a mean face, I don't know. My Russian accent isn't that great, and the muscles aren't that big and the mean face is not enough. You know what I mean? It gets very boring. Tedious stuff.

Let me guess, Seven said last night. The first was a rebound. The second was married. How'd you know? He laughed. Because you're a cliché.

She was the one, I decided, who would guide me into the vortex of the cliche.

She taught me that the world would continue without me. And eventually I learned that lesson. It took some time...Everything is cliche. Her death taught me that life is short.

I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.

It is a cliché about British bands going to America and being broken by the experience.

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.

I miss the cast and crew of Supernatural immensely. I know it's a cliche to say your cast and crew are like your family, but it's really the case there.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Cougar jokes are now as hackneyed as airplane food.

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. It's a cliche and we use it too much but I think for a husband and wife the way to stay close is to do things together and share.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

Washingtonians love the "So-and-so is spinning in his grave" cliché. Someone is always speculating about how some great dead American would be scandalized over some crime against How It Used to Be. The Founding Fathers are always spinning in their graves over something, as is Ronald Reagan, or FDR. Edward R. Murrow is a perennial grave spinner in the news business (though in fact, Murrow was cremated).

It's not a stereotype if it's always true.

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.

99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.