All we have, all we are, are clichés.
Using clichés is a substitute for thinking
The reasons there are so many clichés about universes inside of dewdrops is because there are universes inside of dewdrops.
The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.
The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
To paraphrase president Kennedy's inaugural, the torch has been passed to a new generation of cartoonists and they are doing really interesting stuff, taking the old cliches and breathing new life into them and inventing new ones. This doesn't mean the previous generation of which I'm a charter member isn't doing good stuff but this new material is invigorating everyone.
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.
A leather jacket,” Kami said as he shrugged into it. “Aren’t you trying a little too hard to play into certain bad boy clichés?” “Nah”, said Jared. “You’re thinking of black leather. Black leather’s for bad boys. It’s all in the color. You wouldn’t think I was a bad boy if I was wearing a pink leather jacket. ” “That’s true,” Kami said. “What I would think of you, I do not know. So what does brown leather mean, then?” “I’m going for manly,” Jared said. “Maybe a little rugged. ” “It’s bits of dead cow; don’t ask it to perform miracles.
You don't want to repeat yourself for one. You don't want to fall into the clichés for another. And you don't want to be licentious really. You want to be descriptive, if you can be. And you're not setting out to arouse anybody.
Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class.
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
I didn't really think in terms of clichés or non-clichés.
I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.
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.
You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.
Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
Every cliche is true, right? That's why they're cliches.
I love being a father, it's wonderful. It's changed my life. All the clichés are true.
cliches are truisms and all truisms are true
Even good hearts know how to turn bad touch and genocide into clichés just to make room for more comfort.