Best 125 quotes in «cliche quotes» category

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.

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

My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.

Most of my cliches aren't original.

Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.

Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.

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

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.

Puppets and dolls are the gateways between human beings and objects. There are tons of cliches to spout about puppetry and animism, the primacy of the object, attacking anthropocentric worldviews, etc, and while there were always puppets around, I started working with them to deal with the times I knew I wouldn't be able to collaborate with other humans, to have a team.

That’s the problem with heartbreak, to you it’s like an atomic bomb but to the world it’s just a cliche because in the end we all have the same experience.

The biggest cliche in Photography is Sunrise and Sunset.

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

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.

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

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

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

Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.

Use it or lose it is a cliche because it's true.

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

Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.

Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?

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.

The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches.

The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths.

The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to do away with old cliches or old phraseologies, and to come up with a new way of saying something, it's extremely difficult.

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

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

Then there's the silliest of all cliches, 'on a pace for' 'Pace' is a figment of the mathematician's imagination.

There are lots of things that you can go down the list and say, "Oh, these are cliches, we've seen this before, just hits every checkpoint." All of that takes a secondary status for me if I'm reading something and I just really like the characters.

This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.

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

To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.

What is a change-maker? What has Hillary Clinton changed? It is filled with all the cliches that New Agers and leftists glom on to, like "common sense gun control legislation." But it never was defined.

When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.

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

Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings.

An artist's job is to make new clichés.

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.

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.

As a rule of thumb, I'd say one cliché per [Romance]--and then be damn sure you can make it work. But if you're going to try to write the virginal amnesiac twin disguised as a boy mistaken for the mother (or father depending how well the disguise works) of a secret baby, honey, you better have some serious skills. Or seek therapy.

As an opener, I'd like to state that elves are certainly NOT cliché. It doesn't matter if they all have pointy ears, or they all live a long time, or even if they all like forests. It doesn't matter if they're short or tall or both. It doesn't matter if they're related to forest spirits or even angels. Regardless of how many elves are like one another or how many elves appear in how many books, elves are NOT cliché. Why? Well, for one, an elf is a creature. How can a creature be a cliché? Is a human cliché? They certainly do appear in a lot of books! How about dragons? Now there's a popular subject! Are dragons cliché as well? Well what about vampires too? Or werewolves? Or bats? Or rabbits? Or mice? Or owls? Or crows? Cats??

As cliché as it might sound, I'd rather lose than win by cheating. The latter is a much deeper, more personal loss in that one is admittedly whispering to himself his lack of competence. His cheating then begets more cheating, as he is ever-privately, ever-subconsciously insulting himself; thus, gradually deteriorating any remaining confidence.

A society where everyone is following his own unique path has a much better chance to find the truth than the society where everyone is following some known cliché paths!

cliche but accurate: Kick a football, then ask it whether it meant to fly. All action demands an equal and opposite reaction. You can't blame an object battered by inertial forces; you can't blame me, bouncing through the pinball machine of life.

Bad movies and bad writing and easy cliches still manage to make us feel things toward each other. Part of me is disgusted by this. Part of me celebrates it.

Burung bernyanyi riang. Angin berhembus sepoi-sepoi bahasa. Dan lain-lain klise.

I am so tired of this gothic crap,” I muttered. “Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.

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.

Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to your bell, sit back and listen to his nemesis.