Cliche Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• Don't avoid the cliches - they are cliches because they work!

  George Lucas

  "The Imagineering Way: Ideas to Ignite your Creativity" by Marty Sklar, 2003.

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• I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

  Adele

  Breakup, Real, Writing

  "The year of Adele". "60 minutes" with Anderson Cooper, www.cbsnews.com. February 15, 2012.

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• There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.

  Jo Brand

  Genius, Lines, Rubbish

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• It may be a cliché, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.

  Julie Burchill

  Christmas, May

  "Its a rat trap" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2003.

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• All the child-star clichés. I've tried very hard to avoid them all.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Stars, Children, Hard

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

  Jeff Daniels

  Comedy, Hard

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• Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.

  Tom DeLonge

  Boring, Uncomfortable, Disgusting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Character, People, Plot

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

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• It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.

  Ellie Goulding

  Writing, Heart, Sadness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

  John Hawkes

  Able, Complacency, Authenticity

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• It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Disappointment, Attitude

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• Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live, in a spirit of humility and respect for the facts and for history. What as the meaning of ROME, OPEN CITY? We were emerging from the tragedy of the war. We had all taken part in it, for we were all its victims. I sought only to picture the essence of things. I had absolutely no interest in telling a romanticized tale along the usual lives of film drama. The actual facts were each more dramatic than any screen cliche.

  Roberto Rossellini

  War, Drama, Taken

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• The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.

  Tom Stoppard

  Taken, Ideas, People

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• You have incredible lives ahead of you. You have incredible things that you can accomplish. If you feel that, you will have an amazing life. Do not let anything build a wall too high for you to get over. And I know that might seem very cliche, but I've had alot of friends who had hurt themselves. And when you're younger, a lot of that stuff is so temporary. You can get through it. You're stronger than you think. You'll ALWAYS be stronger than you think. Feel with your heart and do what you want.

  Corey Taylor

  Hurt, Wall, Heart

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• Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.

  Umberto Eco

  Moving, Talking, Two

  "A double dose of Great News highlights the series at its wacky, warm-hearted best" by Vikram Murthi, www.avclub.com. December 21, 2017.

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• The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Color, Skills

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• I hate the cliche of 'just have fun,' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids.

  Hope Solo

  Sports, Fun, Hate

  "Soccer Star Hope Solo On Loving Lost Parents". Interview with Cheryl Corley, www.wdiy.org. August 20, 2012.

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• There was a fine line between love and hate you heard that cliche all the time. But no one told you that the moment you crossed it would be the one you least expected. You'd fall in love and crack open a secret door to let your soul mate in. You just never expected such closeness one day to feel like an intrusion.

  Jodi Picoult

  Falling In Love, Hate, Doors

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.569, Simon and Schuster

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• You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.

  Matt Haig

  Age, Fifteen, Six

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• I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to you.I didn't.The cliches apply-people are what count,life is precious,materialism is over rated, and the little things matter,live in the moment-and i can repeat them to you ad nauseam.you might listen, but you won't internalize.Tragedy hammers it hm.Tragedy etches into your soul.You might not be happier.But you will be better.

  Harlan Coben

  People, Soul, Live In The Moment

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• Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

  Edward Abbey

  Fashion, Communication, Nerves

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mistake, Men, Thinking

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