#cliches

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #cliches




I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.


Jose Saramago


#always #appreciated #because #cliches #copies

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


#cliches #devices #feel #i #like

Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true.


Douglas Wood


#cliches #hollywood #see #true #unfortunately

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

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

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.


Gabriel Garcia Marquez


#alone #america #break #centuries #cliches

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


William Safire


#cliches #last #least #like #plague

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


#clear #cliches #common #days #how

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.


George Stigler


#aroused #cliches #destroyed #director #discussions

The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.


Ben Stiller


#find #generic #hutch #most #plot