To paraphrase president Kennedy's inaugural, the torch has been passed to a new generation of cartoonists and they are doing really interesting stuff, taking the old cliches and breathing new life into them and inventing new ones. This doesn't mean the previous generation of which I'm a charter member isn't doing good stuff but this new material is invigorating everyone.
Save me from trendy religion that makes cheap clichés out of timeless truths.
We follow a certain pattern, a maze, if you will, every day, tracing our steps into certain districts and neighborhoods and back home. So it's easy for people to relate to clichés. That's why comedy routines are based on mutual experiences of clichés.
The perfect Christmas gift for a sportscaster, as all fans of sports clichés know, is a scoreless tie.
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
You don't want to repeat yourself for one. You don't want to fall into the clichés for another. And you don't want to be licentious really. You want to be descriptive, if you can be. And you're not setting out to arouse anybody.
Using clichés is a substitute for thinking
The reasons there are so many clichés about universes inside of dewdrops is because there are universes inside of dewdrops.
Quotations calcify into clichés.
Clichés can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichés.
Every cliche is true, right? That's why they're cliches.
Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.
There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.
Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.
your soul needs to be lonely so that its strangest elements can moil about, curl and growl and jump, fail and get triumphant, all inside you. Sociable people have the most trouble hearing their unconscious. They have trouble getting rid of clichés because clichés are sociable.
I didn't really think in terms of clichés or non-clichés.
Let's have some new cliches.
All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.