You know the cliche that politics is Hollywood for ugly people, … Political conventions are sort of showmanship for people whose idea of great entertainment is the Gridiron. If you think the Gridiron is equal...

Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter.

I often warn people: “Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, ‘There is no “I” in team.’ What you should tell them is, ‘Maybe not. But there is an “I” in independence,...

It is precisely, if paradoxically, because reversal is in the service of repetition (so as to ensure, alongside its companion strategies, a dizzying proliferation of citations) that it gains a subversive power rather than remain...

My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.

There are no atheists in the foxhole.

You make me love books and the words inside them, because they talk about you. I know they do, they tell me that I love you, not as cliché as I write it, but in...

I know it sounds stupid and cliche, but I just want to get better. I want to keep improving.

So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you’re not noticing.

There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.

Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it’s the key to victory over fear and it’s cousin, depression.

I guess it’s a cliche, but I can’t think of anybody who didn’t like him.

Outside the box” is an overused cliche which goes nowhere near far enough. In fact, there are so many politicians and salesmen thinking outside the box these days that I am convinced that all of...

This is a familiar syndrome. There is a stage with every drawing or painting when it looks banal and clumsy. It’s worth pushing through that, working through the cliché to find out what made it...

I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only hover around the inexpressible with our words anyway, and there...

At the end of the day” to bed.

Bad movies and bad writing and easy cliches still manage to make us feel things toward each other. Part of me is disgusted by this. Part of me celebrates it.

I can’t write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

We both smile at the classic misunderstanding. It’s all so cliché-ridden, it’s embarrassing. I wish our story could have some more original twists and turns. Maybe one of us will turn into a vampire or...

Think of the old cliché about the mind being ‘an excellent servant but a terrible master’. This, like many clichés, so lame & banal on the surface, actually expresses a great & terrible truth.

Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.

Clary screamed out loud as he fell like a stone-And landed lightly on his feet just in front of her. Clary stared with her mouth open as he rose up out of a shallow crouch...

rather babble away and at least partially express something difficult than reproduce impeccable clichés

It’s not the early bird that gets the worm, it’s the one who knows to go outside after a rainstorm.

about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.

Vanilla has become too genericized. It’s become standard, which is good. Vanilla is a household name. But the same standardization that’s made it so popular has taken the novelty out of it. Being the vanguard...

Spring, spring! Bytuene Mershe ant Averil, when spray biginneth to spring! When shaws be sheene and swards full fayre, and leaves both large and longe! When the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces, in...

It’s a cliche, but just being nominated is cool.

I know, I know…there’s something cliché about that. The heroine initially wanting to clobber a protagonist male, but later realizing that he’s grown on her and she actually really likes him. Technically, I’m not supposed...

[Any points the President can score in the market these days are welcome.] One of the oldest cliches about the market is that it hates uncertainty, … And uncertainty has certainly been intensified by the...

Don’t bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn’t listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn’t listen to your bell, sit back and listen to his nemesis.

The cliché comes not in what you shoot but in how you shoot it.

It’s a cliché to say that men think with their penises. But it’s a fact. And penises are notoriously stupid. My penis, for example, probably only has an IQ of 144, or about 12 times...

All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

Oh I know it’s cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in-To places few others who even do take the risk’ve ever been