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Too many new writers dress up old cliches.
— Christopher Fowler
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist.
— Gore Vidal
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
— Newt Gingrich
Let's have some new cliches.
— Samuel Goldwyn
There is no such thing as bad timing. Just weak people.
— Iveta Cherneva
I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.
— Robert Morgan
You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.
— Matthew Vaughn
The challenge in daytime in particular, I think, is to go against all the traditional cliches of daytime and try to make it real.
— Eric Braeden
I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.
— Josephine De La Baume
Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.
— Daryl Hall
Most of my cliches aren't original.
— Chuck Knox
The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths.
— Faith Popcorn
Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.
— Arundhati Roy
There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.
— David Twohy
I'd discovered another of life's cliches by being with jude: the happier you are in life, the faster it passes you by.
— Nicole Williams
Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.
— Brad Holland
Then there's the silliest of all cliches, 'on a pace for' 'Pace' is a figment of the mathematician's imagination.
— Leonard Koppett
I'm sick of the old cliches. Bring me some new cliches.
— Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. If what I feel is not precise than how should I call it love?
— Jeanette Winterson
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
— Evelyn Waugh
I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
— Gary McCord
In baseball and sex, cliches are usually true: pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn't seem to care.
— Chuck Klosterman
Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.
— Densey Clyne
Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.
— Jeff Daniels
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
— Stephen Fry
Absence makes the mind go yonder.
— Brian Spellman
Only in art were there cliches; never in nature. There were no ordinary human beings. Everybody was born with surprise inside.
— Jincy Willett
I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.
— Michel Hazanavicius
Cliche is Truth's most loyal friend...
— Rafael Reyes
Cliches remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that other have trod this ground long ago.
— Miguel Syjuco
This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.
— Sylvia Brownrigg
Cliches are what make you understand something.
— Matthew Vaughn
All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.
— Macaulay Culkin
If you distance yourself from reality and just cling to cliches about democracy find yourself a different job than analyzing politics
— Hany Ghoraba
Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about.
— Antonia Bird
People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.
— Steve Coogan
When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.
— Kenny Smith
The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches.
— Alexey Brodovitch
This life is quite a rave- few heartaches, some long waits, altering faiths & breaking cliches!
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
— Bel Kaufman
They're called cliches because they're true, you know. Besides, life is quite complicated enough...
— Elizabeth Noble
The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.
— Diana Gabaldon
Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.
— Michael Nesmith
You're a kid. I didn't know we taught kids manners anymore.
— Christine Amsden
Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right!
— Philip Schultz
The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.
— Serge Daney
I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.
— Timothy Spall
The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
— Alan Perlis
Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.
— Simon Van Booy
Cliches are cliches because they are true.
— Harsha Bhogle
When I hear what I have written out loud, the cliches hang in the air between us like bad breath
— Sarah Kay
Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.
— Vince Lombardi
cliches are truisms and all truisms are true
— Jack Kerouac
Isn't it what all librarians strive toward, at least in the movies and cliches? Silence, invisibility, nothing but a rambling cloud of old book dust.
— Rebecca Makkai
I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.
— Charles Olson
I've learned that unfeeling, bloodsucking men like you need to reduce women to manageable cliches, even to destroy them, for the sake of control.
— Hanif Kureishi
I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.
— Douglas Wood
I understand why sometimes people speak in cliches because sometimes there is no other way to describe something.
— Augusten Burroughs
Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
— Dick Schaap
Swallowed my pride and shit lions.
— Brian Spellman
