#cliches

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

Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#beauty #cliches #fashion #fosters #i

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to. ↗

— Matthew Vaughn

#need #people #respond #you

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#clear #cliches #common #days #how

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed. ↗

— Wolcott Gibbs

#anything #barns #bats #being #better

Most of my cliches aren't original. ↗

— Chuck Knox

#most #original

Clichés can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichés. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#humor #wisdom #writing #humor

[R]aging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convince ourselves that the parade of unwelcome and despised is a new phenomenon, which is why the phrase "the good old days" has passed from cliché to self-parody. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#cliches #crime #exclusion #immigration #morals

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#cliches #permeated #prose

...he remembered his uncle saying once how little vocabulary man really needed to get comfortably and even efficiently through his life, how not only in the individual but within his whole type and race and kind a few simple cliches served his few simple passions and needs and lusts. ↗

— William Faulkner

#vocabulary #life