Cliche Quotes :
Rock guitar has been around for decades now, and there are so many strong traditions, and so much of it is just burned into my fingers. So, nine times out of 10, when I pick up the guitar to jam something, it sounds pretty cliche.
Rivers Cuomo
The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity.
Christopher Buckley
For me, beauty really does come from within, and that may sound cliche, but it’s true.
Normani Kordei
I like a cliche if it’s sort of turned on its head.
Jason Isbell
The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset.
Catherine Opie
I know it’s a cliche, but I didn’t want to work in an office.
Paul O’Grady
My reasons for becoming a chef are somewhat of a cliche. I always loved to eat but it was watching my parents cook that really served as the impetus for my career choice.
Alex Guarnaschelli
Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we’re the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.
Naomi Wolf
Whatever you do, don’t sink your life’s savings into cliche items.
Ken Hakuta
The American Dream – I believe in that cliche because I know what having nothing feels like.
Benji Madden
I hear entrepreneurs use the word ‘disruption’ on a daily basis and continuously hear the cliche change the world.
Brad Feld
You know, rock n’ roll’s an old carcass: it’s one big cliche. It’s so difficult to do anything that has any sense of freshness or vitality or meaning. But that’s what I’m trying to do, to give it new meaning.
Richard Ashcroft
The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles – decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots – create a ceaseless buzz.
Gary Wolf
There has been too much silliness and cliche when looking at older people: I think that hides a fear of death that we have as a society. We are obsessed with youth and denying death.
Sebastian Lelio
There are phrases that are totally cliche that we, as songwriters, owe it to ourselves to not use again.
Brad Paisley
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.
M. J. Rose
Producers are men who will keep their heads in the noisy presence of writers and directors and not be carried away by art in any of its subversive guises. Their task is to guard against the unusual. They are the trusted loyalists of cliche.
Ben Hecht
It’s a cliche, and in a way it’s a conservative idea about fiction, but I did learn the hard way that plot does need to dictate the story.
Rachel Kushner
I think it’s sad that there seems to be one definition of beauty in Hollywood/New York. It’s such a cliche, but I think it’s true that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes.
Julianne Nicholson
Thinking about your training should put a smile on your face. As cliche as it sounds, you are worth all the time and energy you’ve put in. Unleash your emotions with a cheer, or even a signature roar, after a tough workout.
Summer Sanders
Critics will tell you the ‘meet cute’ is a tired old writing cliche, but the thing is, cliche’s work – because they ring true with the reader.
Mary Kay Andrews
I’m definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliche. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves.
Connie Nielsen
I remember thinking that writing love songs was stupid and cliche, and that my job was to not write love songs, because there are enough of them.
Caroline Polachek
I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It’s life-thickening, photography.
Peter Beard
I moved to London, and it’s a cliche to say that London is a melting pot, but it’s true – I didn’t stand out anymore.
Noma Dumezweni
I spent the first part of my career trying to avoid genre because I felt like genre, in some way, was cliche.
David MacKenzie
It sounds like a cliche, but without a strong group, you win nothing in football.
Kaka
I’m a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.
Hamish Linklater
It’s been a wild journey for me. I’m trying to take what I’ve learned and help teach, inspire, and lead the way for the next women. And that does begin with the cliche of loving yourself.
Erin Brockovich
It’s difficult to find a genuine weakness that makes you appear competent. For instance, telling your interviewer that your weakness is working so hard that you have trouble prioritizing your family life is a little too cliche and comes across as disingenuous.
Travis Bradberry
Taking up magic was a distraction from my sexuality. There is that 1970s cliche of the gay man as hairdresser, interior decorator, fashionista… and all of those things are about arranging surfaces in a very dazzling way – and magic is all about how you arrange surfaces. I got very good at deflecting people from things I didn’t want them to see.
Derren Brown
I know it’s kind of cliche, but my favourite is still the first ‘Hell in a Cell.’
Seth Rollins
At the risk of sounding too cliche, I found a really fantastic church. That is what keeps me grounded.
Chyler Leigh
Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.
Karl Lagerfeld
It’s a bit of a cliche, but I think girls like to get flowers. I think books are quite romantic, too. If you can find an interesting book, that brings something out in your partner that can be very romantic.
Douglas Booth
I can’t write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.
Adele
I just really want to make – to be cliche about it, I want to make pretty music. Like Roy Orbison or Elvis, man. Those guys made beautiful, tender music.
Sturgill Simpson
The angry Scot is a cliche not without some foundation. That’s the Lowland Scot – I’m a Highlander. We’re particularly lovely and charming.
Hugh Grant
Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing’s funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.
Tom DeLonge
I hate the cliche of ‘just have fun,’ but what I’ve seen in today’s sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids.
Hope Solo
I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers.
Maximilian Schell
People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it’s a real thing – the more love we spread around the world the more it’s going to change lives.
Ben Vereen
Parents must lead by example. Don’t use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children’s first and most important role models.
Lee Haney
If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.
Lewis Thomas
You can’t do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there’s nothing you can do – unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.
Markus Wolf
I grew up in southern California in the ’80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.
John Scalzi
I miss the cast and crew of ‘Supernatural’ immensely. I know it’s a cliche to say your cast and crew are like your family, but it’s really the case there.
Jim Beaver
If your mind is at work, we’re in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we’ll come up with something original.
Peter Falk
I like stories that grow, that have unpredictable layers. As opposed to Hollywood movies that start out with a lot of shock and noise and peter out into an unconvincing cliche.
Peter Falk
Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.
Patrick Kavanagh
I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.
Sally Field
I know it’s a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don’t believe anybody wants to be famous.
Jeremy Renner
I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I’ve worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It’s not just a cliche.
Cameron Diaz
I suppose I could do ‘The Reassembler’ at 80. But it would be a terrible cliche.
James May
I don’t really have a type. I don’t want to be a cliche. But personality is a big thing for me. You can find cute guys all over. But he’s got to have some sort of sense of humor, which is so hard to find in a guy. He’s got to be a bit smart.
Zara Larsson
Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.
Leslie Jamison
I’m not saying that every song has to be an all-time hit or the greatest ever music. That’s not what you should set out to do. But you have to find out what will work best for a particular story or theme or backdrop, and discuss how not to make it a cliche or fall into such traps.
Mani Ratnam
With a lot of shows, what you’ll see happen is they start off really well, and they’re very original, but they become sort of a version of themselves. They stand outside the show… they become a cliche of the show they once were. That’s the whole ‘jumping the shark’ thing.
Peter Dinklage
After years of doing composition, the risk is always that you might start to repeat and be cliche. Every time, I try find a way to be reborn again as an artist. Its not easy to reinvent yourself every time, as it takes a lot of creative energy, but I am happy to do it.
Ludovico Einaudi
Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.
Margaret Heffernan
I have no interest in having my wife as my manager and I don’t think she has to because it would be kind of cliche. It’s almost in the line of expectations where it’s like, oh of course you’re going to put them together, and I don’t want that.
Aleister Black
You know those award shows. The cliche is that it’s an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don’t know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it’s deserving.
Hank Azaria
I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.
Elizabeth Olsen
It is kind of a cliche that many Indian parents, especially in the U.S., want their kids to become doctors or engineers. But my parents encouraged me to turn to music when they found that I had the passion and talent.
Sid Sriram