#cliches

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#always #appreciated #because #cliches #copies

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

— Stephen Fry

#cliches #like #most #then #true

I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#allowed #american #being #cliches #foreigner

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

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

— Michael Nesmith

#nothing #stock #them #those #trade

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

— Miuccia Prada

#beauty #cliches #fashion #fosters #i

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

— William Safire

#cliches #last #least #like #plague

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director. ↗

— George Stigler

#aroused #cliches #destroyed #director #discussions

The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find. ↗

— Ben Stiller

#find #generic #hutch #most #plot

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