Cliche Quotes

• I think cliche is a good thing sometimes.

  

  Kevin Abstract
  • Sometimes
  • Cliche

• I've often felt unattractive or different looking. As I've grown up, I've felt more comfortable in my own skin. It may sound cliche, but when you feel beautiful and strong on the inside, it shows on the outside.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Up
  • Different
  • May

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

  

  Adele
  • Real
  • Write
  • Record

• Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Writing
  • Cliche

• The world doesn't revolve around me anymore. Now it's all about this little baby. I come home after a rough day, I see her and she smiles and nothing but that matters. I know that sounds really cliche but it's the truth.

  

  Michael Easton
  • Day
  • Matters
  • Sounds

• The road is a lonely place, and that sounds like a cliche, you know, like what is my life?

  

  Artie Lange
  • Life
  • Road
  • Place

• The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.

  

  Serge Daney
  • Conditions
  • Spread
  • Tourism

• This wisdom of crowds thing--it may be a cliche, but it's mostly true. What we're talking about here is a democracy, and it works, but you have to be careful before it gets out of control.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • May
  • True
  • Control

• All my photographs are about meetings and about coups de foudre - love at first sight. To do that type of photography, one must wipe the canvas clean to prepare for chance encounters, be open and aware to such moments, otherwise it becomes a cliché - already seen and expected.

  

  Edouard Boubat
  • Love
  • Chance
  • Photographs

• There is an old cliche, 'You can see the glass half empty, or you can see it half full.' You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. But whatever you focus on, you're going to get more of. Creation is an extension of thought. Think lack, and you get lack. Think abundance, and you get more.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Focus
  • Empty

• Gaston was a short, bulky man in his late fifties who favoured tight jeans, studded belts and sleeveless T-shirts, the better to show off the tattoos on his own arms. Only the absence of a mullet or a purple Mohican saved him from a breach of the EU directive against egregious cliché embodiment.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Jeans
  • Tattoos
  • Breach

• The scumbags are taking over the streets. I don't know what David Cameron and Gordon Brown are going to do about it. It all goes back to the Thatcher (Margaret Thatcher) years. It sounds like a cliché but that's when the rot set in.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Street
  • Sounds
  • Scumbags

• The word 'modern' is a cliche.

  

  Patrick Cox
  • Word
  • Modern
  • Cliche

• If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Love
  • Peace
  • Problem

• I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

  

  Scarlett Thomas
  • Hate
  • Stereotypes
  • Cliche

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

  

  Chase Utley
  • Want
  • Stupid
  • Sound

• 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
  • Hell
  • Speed
  • Shock

• ...my goal was to make the kid feel heard. I didn’t mind the cliché; in fact, I admired the phrase, its rightness of fit, a mixture of the somatic and semantic; maybe it explained the desire for heavy metal that registered as touch as much as sound.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Desire
  • Goal
  • Touch

• Make an account, start uploading videos, and then be yourself; it's very cliche, but no one else can do it.

  

  Liza Koshy
  • Account
  • Cliche
  • Videos

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

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Comedy
  • Cliche
  • Unfaithful

• It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?

  

  Mike Quade
  • Worry
  • Things
  • Cliche

• Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Action
  • Novel
  • Cliche

• If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation.

  

  Bradford Morrow
  • Idea
  • Word
  • Revelation

• When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.

  

  Terrence Malick
  • People
  • Important
  • Struggle

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