Cliche Quotes

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal. (John Lennon)
At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue. View quote
Stephen Fry
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. View quote
Richard Dawkins
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. View quote
Lee Haney
Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor. View quote
Wallace Stevens
It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood. View quote
Matt Dillon
Primitivism has become the vulgar cliche of much modern art and speculation. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
To know me is to love me. This cliche is popular for a reason, because most of us, I imagine, believe deep in our hearts that if anyone truly got to know us, they'd truly get to love us - or at least know why we're the way we are. The problem in life, maybe the central problem, is that so few people ever seem to have sufficient curiosity to do the job on us that we know we deserve. View quote
Roger Ebert
It's a cliché - but true - that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do it well. View quote
Yanni
If I made a joke about just dropping in, would you write me off as a cliche? (Cassandra Clare)
As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery" - naturally with no motive, they do not care to discuss motives - according to them, anti-Semitism is a madness, an intellectual degeneration, an affliction of the spirit. View quote
A.C. Cuza
Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women. View quote
Camille Paglia
I wanted [Martin] to be a really decent human being because I didn't want to depict the cliché that a woman becomes a lesbian because her husband is terrible to her. View quote
Patricia Rozema
The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law. View quote
Václav Havel
There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day a week for many years in the presence of police and I have never seen them argue. It's a military hierarchy. They do what they're told. There's no bickering. View quote
Peter James
Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression. View quote
Robert McKee
I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out. View quote
Glenn Close
So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal and Bridget Jones put together, which was probably about how much I weighed... View quote
Jennifer Weiner
Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you know there's novels I've read or a scene in a film that I've seen where I definitely inspired something and made a change or addressed an issue in my life or done something cliche like make a phone call. View quote
Rose Byrne
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. (Alexandra Guarnaschelli)
Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They're all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They're tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky. View quote
Andrew Bird
There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off. View quote
Al Goldstein
If you think of exercise as a 60-minute commitment 3 times a week at the gym, you're missing the point completely. If you think that going on a diet has something to do with nutrition, you don't see the forest through the trees. It is a lifestyle. I know it sounds cliche, but you have to find things you love to do. View quote
Brett Hoebel
It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing. View quote
Bruce Forsyth