Cliche Quotes

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.

The ground swell is what’s going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are clichés also, of course, and I’m sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.

Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. Theyre tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.

I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.

A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

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

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

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

I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that's a cliche.

There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you just follow someone that's preaching. There's lots of different emotions and moods that a service requires.

I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.

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.

You are who you surround yourself with. I know that's such a cliche quote, but it's true.

It may be a cliché, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.

All the child-star clichés. I've tried very hard to avoid them all.

At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

I know it sounds cliche, but you have to believe in yourself because there's going to be moments that no one else does.

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

Don't avoid the cliches - they are cliches because they work!

A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.

Choose something you like to do. I know its a cliche, and youve heard it over and over. But the reason is, youre going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.

Timing is everything. That's a cliche. Now. If I'd said that a long time ago, I'd have been original.

My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.

First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

I feel like a cliche.

You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it’s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.

The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

Cliches are what make you understand something.

I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

This is such a cliche, but I feel like filmmaking is a collaborative experience.

The cliche is dead poetry.

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

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

It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along

It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.

At the risk of sounding too cliche, I found a really fantastic church. That is what keeps me grounded.

The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.

I am against the whole cliche of the moment.

If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on the audience, repeating cliches familiar to it. But artists don't address themselves to audiences; they create audiences. The artist talks to himself out loud. If what he has to say is significant, others hear & are affected.

If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché?

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.

The more you give, the more you get - it’s a cliché, but it’s really true.

That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.