Quotes About Cliches

Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.

People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.

Cliches are what make you understand something.

People love cliches. If you can give people cliches, that's very good TV, then.

There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.

If you look around, 90 percent of marriages are cliches - people aren't genuinely happy even if they look happy together.

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right!

I just like cliches. I like tvtropes.com. It's pretty much my bible.

De pronto vivir sea ser derrotado, más temprano que tarde, por los lugares comunes: el duelo y la redención, el amor y la muerte

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness... At work, they regarded her as a person apart... They imagined there must be more to her. A dark horse. And still waters run deep. They would be disappointed to know that even clichés were more interesting than the life she lived.

Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.

Time seemed to fly-- as happens, they say, when you are having fun. I guess sometimes clichés were actually coined for legitimate reasons.

Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.

She said better safe than sorry. I said, that is a cliché, but Mum said things are only clichés because they are universal truths.

They're called cliches because they're true, you know. Besides, life is quite complicated enough...

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of the left hemisphere can leave people with no articulate speech other than the ability to swear, spout cliches and song lyrics.

What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal.

We are now more conscious of the problem of communication itself even in our own language. Familiar words have lost their meaning for many; or the same word means different things to different people. Jargon and cliches usurp the place of discriminating speech in many areas of life.

A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at his own joke. The class laughed along with him, but I always thought clichés got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on. But the aptness of the clichéd saying is overshadowed by the nature of the saying as a cliché.

I always thought clichés got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on.

I always thought clichés got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on. But the aptness of the clichéd saying is overshadowed by the nature of the saying as a cliché.

Save me from trendy religion that makes cheap clichés out of timeless truths.