Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diana Gabaldon

The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.

Charles Olson

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

Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about.

I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.

This story is surrounded by myths and cliches and I worked hard to get through and find out what was true.

Win Butler

The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me.

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.

Helen McCrory

A perfect weekend in London has to start on Friday night, by going to the theatre, the Donmar or the National. It's a cliche for an actor, but I enjoy going as much as possible.

Former Gov. Knowles threw out a lot of easy cliches, and is very good at delivering them, but cliches aren't going to get Alaskans a gas pipeline.

I hate to use the old cliche about how it will improve the quality of life. But it's true.

Chuck Knox

Most of my cliches aren't original.

Martin Jol

It is a cliche in England, but that is what we were shouting about before the game - getting back to winning ways. This is exactly what we need - a win.

Ken Jeong

I really realize the more movies I do just how important - it's so cliche when people say it, because everybody says it nowadays - but it's so important to keep it grounded. I totally understand what that means.

I think we understood at the end of the season that we were controlling our destiny. As cliche as that is, we knew we had to win games to get in.

B. D. Wong

I realize it's a cliche almost, that coming out of the closet is a very healthy and empowering thing to do, but for me, it really has been a truly wonderful thing.

Burn Gorman

The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight! The terrible twos are not a myth, but he's such a laugh to be around.

David Siegel

Fabric is the hot thing. It's very dynamic and, in a cliched word, very cool.

Steve Buyer

This 'rise to the level' has somehow become the legal cliche of this case. You've all so often heard it, and some of you have even spoken it,

Paris is an unsolved puzzle. She inspires me in a way that other places don't. And she demands more of me. Just try to write about her without bumping into cliche after cliche.

Paul Harding

Write as precisely and as lucidly and as richly as you can about what you find truly mysterious and irreducible about human experience, and not obscurely about what will prove to be received opinion or cliche once the reader figures out your stylistic conceit. There's all the difference in the world between mystery and mystification.

Paul Rand

Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar cliches or a wild scramble for novelty. Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance. Form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.

Jodi Picoult

There was a fine line between love and hate, you heard that cliche all the time. But no one told you that the moment you crossed it would be the one you least expected. You'd fall in love and crack open a secret door to let your soul mate in. You just never expected such closeness, one day, to feel like an intrusion.

Damon Galgut

Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn't so easy to do.

Michael Hirst

'Downton Abbey' is just one cliche after another, and it is a really, really poor piece of drama. But that's only me talking. That's just my take on it.

Herman Kahn

I am against the whole cliche of the moment.

Iggy Pop

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

Kevin Connolly

I've always thought the expression 'passion project' was kind of a cliche until I started working on 'Big Shot' for 'ESPN.'

Jennifer Aniston

The sad thing, for me, is the way it's been reduced to a Hollywood cliche -- or maybe it's just a human cliche.

David Walton

Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, 'Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors do.' But after a year of not getting work, there's this really difficult conflict, like, 'Do I have to go back to being a waiter when people recognize me from a show?'

It's two things. The old cliche is that the market hates uncertainty. So this removes the uncertainty.

Michael Mann

There's a tired notion that the photojournalist has to be disengaged to be able to shoot what he shoots, and that's such a cliched idea of what the experience is. Of course they're engaged, and they're not distanced.

Janet Fitch

A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.

Jack Kerouac

cliches are truisms and all truisms are true