Cliches Quotes

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

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

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

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

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.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.

Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true.

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.

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

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

I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to a lot of realism both in the language and in the structure of a book.

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.

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

We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

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.

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

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

Most of my cliches aren't original.

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

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

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.