It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
Cliches are cliches because they are true.
You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.
I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you act...
Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.
People love cliches. If you can give people cliches, that's very good TV, then.
It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.
I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
Morals always sound like cliches, but usually cliches are based on things that are ultimate truths. Be grateful for what you have; appreciate what's right there in front of you.
I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.
Cliched characters are cliches because they're people being described by people who are on the outside. If you take two sentences from anybody and reduce them to just that, that's what you're going to get.
Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're inspired by cliches.
I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?
That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.
Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.
The cliche is dead poetry.
To move past fear is a cliche.
Let's have some new cliches.
I love art, but not in a cliched, luvvie way.
Most of my cliches aren't original.
