#clich

I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#feeling #giving #i #like #moving

Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#nothing #stock #them #those #trade

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards. ↗

— Robert Plant

#awards #cliche #crucial #drifting #i

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

— Mike Quade

#age-old #cliche #control #old thing #over

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon. ↗

— Ron Paul

#anything #anytime #away #benefit #cliches

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#box #cliche #einstein #out #think

I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#day #drama #drama school #feel #first

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague. ↗

— William Safire

#cliches #last #least #like #plague

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

#cliche #full #must #off #responsibility

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#nails #similes #well-worn-phrases #christmas