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.
The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.
The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.
The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.
Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.
The perfect Christmas gift for a sportscaster, as all fans of sports clichés know, is a scoreless tie.
Prophets and artists tend to be liminal and marginal people, "edgemen," who strive with a passionate sincerity to rid themselves of the clichés associated with status incumbency and role-playing and to enter into vital relations with other men in fact or imagination. In their productions we may catch glimpses of that unused evolutionary potential in mankind which has not yet been externalized and fixed in structure.
Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.
cliches are truisms and all truisms are true
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.
We follow a certain pattern, a maze, if you will, every day, tracing our steps into certain districts and neighborhoods and back home. So it's easy for people to relate to clichés. That's why comedy routines are based on mutual experiences of clichés.
Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.
your soul needs to be lonely so that its strangest elements can moil about, curl and growl and jump, fail and get triumphant, all inside you. Sociable people have the most trouble hearing their unconscious. They have trouble getting rid of clichés because clichés are sociable.
One of the problems of this genre is that there are cliches everywhere, and you've got to be careful and watch out. Our rule with cliches is to either gently acknowledge them and make fun of them, or do something else. Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.
Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.
