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Last updated on April 18, 2025.
The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.
All the child-star clichés. I've tried very hard to avoid them all.
I originated my own cliches, but I'm finding that's not working for me anymore.
When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.
Too many new writers dress up old cliches.
What we need now is some new, fresh clichés.
Being a dad you realise that it's not about you any more. All the cliches are true I think.
All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them
I can speak in cliches and say how much the Israel national team means to us, but we have to prove that on the pitch.
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
It's tough - and I'm not the first person to say this - but cliches exist because they actually happen in real life.
Golf, more than most games, has a number of clichés, often successfully disguised as 'tips'. Watch out!
The goal with 'Alpha' was to run towards the cliches and then to break through them, and that doesn't change depending on the medium.
Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.
Sometimes you watch stuff and it's like, oh God - it's the obvious cliches of the genre. You've got to do better.
The things that you know intellectually when you're young become internalized as you get older. You realize all those clichés.
In baseball and sex, cliches are usually true: pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn't seem to care.
The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.
Concision is a technique of propaganda. It ensures you cannot do anything except repeat clichés, the standard doctrine, or sound like a lunatic.
Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.
Soundgarden are kind of the masters of writing songs that aren't pop cliches.
They're all true - the cliches like 'one day at time' and 'ups and downs.'
Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.
It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.
Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
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.
I try my best to not just avoid cliches but to write with some meaning.
Women just make interesting characters, especially when you're working against cliches.
We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role.
Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.
I love being a father, it's wonderful. It's changed my life. All the clichés are true.
There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.
Save me from trendy religion that makes cheap clichés out of timeless truths.
The perfect Christmas gift for a sportscaster, as all fans of sports clichés know, is a scoreless tie.
All the cliches are true about parenting. All I've ever wanted to do is be a father, but there's this existential mirror that's held up when you have a kid.
This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.
One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.
Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing... to stay alive for them.
Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliches is that they are tired and dull. And that's where writers must try to be artful.
Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class.
The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.
Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.
Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.
Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?
When you're an outsider and going into a culture like America, it's easier to stay away from any cliches because you're not really aware of what they are.
I'm trying to go beyond the traditional cliches of an African safari.
Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about.
Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.
Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.
Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.
The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths.
The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches.
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.
It was a privilege to experience life beyond the cliches and to witness the vibrancy, chaos, and multiculturalism of Bengal first hand.
