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.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I feel like a cliche.

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

A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

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.