Cliche famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
-- Andrew Bird -
When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.
-- Arabella Weir -
I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
-- Beck -
The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
-- Ben Stiller -
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.
-- Bill Kurtis -
Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?
-- Bob Seger -
Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.
-- Carrie Brownstein -
The more you give, the more you get - its a cliche, but its really true.
-- Christie Brinkley -
Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.
-- Chuck Klosterman -
At the risk of sounding too cliche, I found a really fantastic church. That is what keeps me grounded.
-- Chyler Leigh -
Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.
-- Daryl Hall -
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.
-- David Grossman -
Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.
-- Densey Clyne -
The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.
-- Diana Gabaldon -
My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.
-- Dree Hemingway -
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.
-- Edmund Snow Carpenter -
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
-- Eugene Ionesco -
The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths.
-- Faith Popcorn -
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.
-- Gao Xingjian -
It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.
-- George Packer -
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.
-- George Stigler -
Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
-- Harold Evans -
(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
-- Harold MacMillan -
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.
-- Harold MacMillan -
The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
-- Jeanne Moreau -
Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.
-- Jeff Daniels -
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.
-- Jeff Lindsay -
I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.
-- Jeremy Renner -
I miss the cast and crew of Supernatural immensely. I know it's a cliche to say your cast and crew are like your family, but it's really the case there.
-- Jim Beaver -
I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.
-- John Scalzi -
Use it or lose it is a cliche because it's true.
-- Julian Cope -
It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.
-- Julie Burchill -
All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.
-- Macaulay Culkin -
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.
-- Margaret Heffernan -
You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.
-- Matthew Vaughn -
Cliches are what make you understand something.
-- Matthew Vaughn -
Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.
-- Michael Nesmith -
It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.
-- Michael Pitt -
It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along
-- Nathan Lane -
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 -
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
-- Paul Muldoon -
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.
-- Peter Falk -
His temperament is always there to be questioned because he plays on the edge. That is just the way he plays.It is a cliche but if you took that edge away from Wayne he wouldn't be the same player and I would rather have the Wayne Rooney we have now.
-- Rio Ferdinand -
The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.
-- Serge Daney -
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
-- Stephen Fry -
People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.
-- Steve Coogan -
This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.
-- Sylvia Brownrigg -
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.
-- Tom DeLonge -
Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
-- William Safire -
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.
-- Wynton Marsalis -
May we all beware lest our innovative ideas appear very cliche before we even blink.
-- David Livermore -
I guess this is cliche, but I'd love to work with Kanye West, Mark Ronson, Diplo.
-- Hoodie Allen -
It's a cliche that filmmaking is a team sport. However, let me say just say it again: filmmaking is a team sport.
-- Ramona S. Diaz -
This is such a cliche, but I feel like filmmaking is a collaborative experience.
-- Steve Antin -
Every cliche is true, right? That's why they're cliches.
-- W. S. Di Piero -
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.
-- Markus Wolf -
My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.
-- Paul Taylor -
I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
-- Roy Lichtenstein -
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.
-- Kalan Sherrard -
Then there's the silliest of all cliches, 'on a pace for' 'Pace' is a figment of the mathematician's imagination.
-- Leonard Koppett
