Cliche Quotes

• Let's have some new cliches.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Book

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• It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along

  Nathan Lane

  Figure Skating, Figures

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  It has become almost a cliché 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.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  "The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder". Lecture, BBC1 Television, November 12, 1996.

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• 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

  Mistake, Writing, Thinking

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• Cliches are what make you understand something.

  Matthew Vaughn

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• What doesn't kill you makes you smaller

  Mario

  Funny, Humorous, Character

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• What doesn't kill you, makes you fat.

  Esmeralda Santiago

  Trust No One, Inspirational Tattoo, Stronger

  Esmeralda Santiago (2006). “When I was Puerto Rican”, p.63, Da Capo Press

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• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Get Well Soon, Health, Italian

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, 4th Of July, Safety

  sir John Barnard, Benjamin Franklin (1848). “A present for an apprentice [by sir J. Barnard]. To which is added, Franklin's Way to wealth. [Ed.] by a citizen of London [T. Tegg].”, p.288

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• Most of my cliches aren't original.

  Chuck Knox

  Stupid, Nfl, Originality

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Beautiful, Artist, Ideas

  "Genevieve Gorder trades places in 'Town Haul'". Interview with Jay Bobbin, poststar.com. January 21, 2005.

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• If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

  Peter Falk

  Mind, Danger, Come Up

  "Columbo Star Peter Falk Dead at 83" by Brian Corder, www.imdb.com. June 24, 2011.

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• I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite

  Josh Lucas

  Thinking, Opposites, Southern

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

  Michael Nesmith

  Trade

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• The lack of money is the root of all evil.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Bible, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press

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• I know it sounds cliche, but you have to believe in yourself because there's going to be moments that no one else does.

  Paulo Costanzo

  Believe, Moments, Believe In Yourself

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

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

  William Safire

  Lasts, Plague, Superlatives

  William Safire (1991). “Fumblerules: a lighthearted guide to grammar and good usage”, Laurel

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• I know it sounds stupid and cliche, but I just want to get better. I want to keep improving.

  Chase Utley

  Stupid, Get Better, Sound

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• A fool and his money are soon elected.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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

  Stephen Fry

  Comedy, Unfaithful, Untrue

  Stephen Fry (1997). “Moab is My Washpot: An Autobiography”, Random House Incorporated

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• People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.

  Steve Coogan

  People, Interesting

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• Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Motivational, Being Thankful, Alive

  "Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. September 28, 2011.

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• We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging cliches safely from the sideline. Instead, he enters into our suffering. Jesus did it in the Incarnation and his Spirit does it in us now. God will never leave us alone in our suffering.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Suffering, Doe

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Dec 26, 2016

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• I feel like a cliche.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Feels

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