#cliche

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. ↗

— Brad Holland

#artists #cliches #culture #cultures #eager

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't. ↗

— Brad Holland

#art #cliches #expresses #political #propaganda

Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient. ↗

— Charlie Hunter

#cliche #doing #doing the right thing #feel #first

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 and grinned at her. "If I made a joke about just dropping in," he said, "would you write me off as a cliché? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#cliche #jace-wayland #city

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche. ↗

— Beck

#generation #i #i think #kill #mission

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#american history #both #cliches #election #every

I am against the whole cliche of the moment. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#am #cliche #i #i am #moment

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth. ↗

— David Duchovny

#breathing #cliche #day #down #every

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

I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique. ↗

— Paul McDonald

#american #american idol #be different #being #being yourself