#clich

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. ↗

— Jane Austen

#double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism #flattery

Clary screamed out loud as he fell like a stone- And landed lightly on his feet just in front of her. Clary stared with her mouth open as he rose up out of a shallow crouch and grinned at her. "If I made a joke about just dropping in," he said, "would you write me off as a cliché? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#cliche #jace-wayland #city

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it. ↗

— Timothy Spall

#cliches #come #i #know #other

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche. ↗

— Beck

#generation #i #i think #kill #mission

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#american history #both #cliches #election #every

The cliche is dead poetry. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#dead #poetry

Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#been #cliche #constant #music #salvation

I am against the whole cliche of the moment. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#am #cliche #i #i am #moment

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth. ↗

— David Duchovny

#breathing #cliche #day #down #every

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#american #american audience #audience #boredom #cliche