Quotes About Cliche

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

It's a cliche, and in a way it's a conservative idea about fiction, but I did learn the hard way that plot does need to dictate the story.

To move past fear is a cliche.

For me, fashion is all about comfort. I know people say such cliche things all the time, but at the end of the day, you should wear what looks good on you.

I like to just make flex music. So when I do make emotional music, it's hard for me, because I feel like I'm cliche. But I guess cliche is the best thing sometimes, because it's real.

I feel like a cliche.

When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.

I know it is a cliche, but I am just going to focus on each game and try to do as well as I can.

When you watch 'UFC,' there is not a cliche champion who looks the same every time.

It's a cliche that music rises above it all, and it's a cliche for a reason - it's very often true.

For me, beauty really does come from within, and that may sound cliche, but it's true.

Many of you have been reared on the cliche that the purpose of education isn't to stuff your head with facts but to teach you how to think. Wrong.

I remember thinking that writing love songs was stupid and cliche, and that my job was to not write love songs, because there are enough of them.

It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.

I know myself - I cannot just play a cliche. It has to be a character; it has to be written with the complexity of the human being behind. Could be bad, could be good, could be someone we would hate, but still, I need a reason for that influence, and I need to understand why.

There are sometimes concerns about being respectful with a gay character, and you either end up with a tiptoeing quality or an all-out cliche.

I dread to be compared to all these directors who have a lot of spontaneous emoting and swearing in their films - that is death; it's a cul-de-sac. It doesn't lift the material at all. It's just a cliched reproduction of what we think is normal behaviour.

Y cuando uno resulta ser el cliché del otro, el lugar común del otro, queridos lectores, está a punto de caer y seguir cayendo. Para usar otra idea manoseada hasta sacarle brillo: cuando alguien descubre que siempre prefiere pensar y llamar y oír a una misma persona, y que ha encontrado a alguien para desempolvar las historias que había dejado de contar y que su vida ha vuelto a ser un drama, está a punto de regresar a la zona de turbulencia

A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.

Your fear of becoming a cliche is what turns you into one. If you remove the fear, we are all really walking contradictions, hypocrites and paradoxical cliches

Si la cursilería fuera un pecado, yo cada noche me ganaría el infierno.

I have sometimes been sad that Tennessee Williams wrote that line for Blanche DuBois, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. Many of us have been saved many times by the kindness of strangers, but after a while it sounds trite, like a bumper sticker. And that's what makes me sad, that a beautiful and true line comes to be used so often that it takes on the superficial sound of a bumper sticker.

Deeply exciting, though, cliché was, as a concept. It was truth misted by overexpression, wasn't it, like a structure seen in a fog, something waiting to be re-felt, re-seen. Something dainty fumbled at through thick gloves. Cliché was true, obviously, which was why it had become cliché in the first place; so true that cliché actually protected you from its own truth by being what it was, nothing but cliché.