Best 125 quotes in «cliche quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

The more you give, the more you get - it’s a cliché, but it’s really 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 is such a cliche, but I feel like filmmaking is a collaborative experience.

Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.

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.

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.

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.

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.

An artist's job is to make new clichés.

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.

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 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??

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

If you find books boring, probably the problem is that you haven't picked a good one. ... You are not searching cliche you are into something much bigger.

... I retraced my steps, walked up to her, and in another moment would have certainly said, "Madam!" if I had not known that that exclamation had been made a thousand times before in all Russian novels of high life. It was that alone that stopped me.

I'm the old type setter who gets his blood poisoned from the ink.

I trust you’re going to treat my girl like an absolute queen from here on end.” Nathan’s grin stretched from ear to ear. “Like a fairytale princess. When I first met her I told her she was as beautiful as a princess in a storybook.” “Oh, brother. And she actually fell for a dorky line like that?”“Hook, line and sinker.” A smile played about Nathan’s lips. “And I fell for her like a ton of bricks.

It’s not the early bird that gets the worm, it's the one who knows to go outside after a rainstorm.

I will never stop loving you, I know it’s a cliché but it’s damn true.

I flipped it over: Ping Xi's business card with his name, number, e-mail address, and the corniest quotation I'd ever read: "Every act of creation is an act of destruction.—Pablo Picasso

It is precisely, if paradoxically, because reversal is in the service of repetition (so as to ensure, alongside its companion strategies, a dizzying proliferation of citations) that it gains a subversive power rather than remain a mere dependent (and thus conservative) form of social discourse. Reversal plays a double role in this novel (MONSIEUR VENUS), for it is not only a formal strategy bearing on citation, but itself a citation as well; one more cliché mobilized from the fin-de-siecle reserve.

Losing your virginity doesn't make you more of a woman than a virgin. It just means your hymen is broken. Big whoop.

Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in- To places few others who even do take the risk've ever been

Movie Cliche #12: The Moral. A character states the obvious and everybody gets the point.