A Quote by Peter Adamson

Sometimes clichés are true.

Peter Adamson

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Peter Adamson
English - Actor
February 16, 1930 - January 17, 2002

Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are clichés of observation and of thought - even of conception. Many novels, even quite a few adequately written ones, are clichés of form which conform to clichés of expectation.

Geoff Dyer

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.

David Bowie

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

Newt Gingrich

Cliches are cliches because they are true.

Harsha Bhogle

To idealize: all writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the heart.

Martin Amis

It is hard not to speak in cliches about cancer. It can be even harder not to feel as if I have to live up to those cliches. I sometimes feel a deep sense of guilt for not doing a better job of making lemonade out of metaphorical lemons.

Suleika Jaouad

Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.

Umberto Eco

I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.

Josephine de La Baume

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

Stephen Fry

Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.

Sylvester Stallone

I'm not a guy who likes cliches. I don't think that stereotypes and cliches are the end of the line, when it comes to a performance.

Chris Bauer

The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.

Terry Pratchett

There are no worse cliches than southern cliches. They make my skin crawl.

Mary Steenburgen

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

Samuel Goldwyn

I'm sick of the old cliches. Bring me some new cliches.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

As you get older, all those dumb clichés, they're all true. You only have a certain amount of time left, and you should only spend it doing the things that you want to do. It's all true.

Rob Reiner

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