A Quote by David Bowie

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

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David Bowie
English - Musician
January 8, 1947 - January 10, 2016

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

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

Newt Gingrich

I didn't really think in terms of clichés or non-clichés.

Abdellatif Kechiche

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

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

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

Stephen Fry

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

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

I love being a father, it's wonderful. It's changed my life. All the clichés are true.

Ben Affleck

Certainly if it's something you created, like Gargoyles was for me... on the one hand it becomes you and the other writers as well. It's not like it's a one man band by any means, but at the same time when something's really working, when you've got a group of characters that really are clicking and humming, they begin to tell you what happens next. It just all begins to feel right and that was true about Gargoyles. Not true about every show I ever worked on, but it was definitely true about Gargoyles.

Greg Weisman

Sometimes clichés are true.

Peter Adamson

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

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

Sylvester Stallone

If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause they work.