I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused.
I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, 'Oh, okay, babe,' and I see it in scripts all the time.
I overuse words. My kids catch me saying stuff. They're like, 'Hey, you say that all the time.' 'Boom' is one of those things.
I'm very much aware of the dangers of becoming a cliche. Mr. Anger, someone who gets meaner, angrier on record.
It's not the subject that's cliché; it's cliché or not. But in fact, this is the way you're talking about it.
Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.
If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.
I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.
about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.
Clichés so often befall vain people.
It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me.
Clichés can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichés.
The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.
It's tough - and I'm not the first person to say this - but cliches exist because they actually happen in real life.
Too many new writers dress up old cliches.
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain.
Never use the words 'suddenly' or 'all hell broke loose.'
The cliche that comics always use is that whatever is happening in the news is 'the gift that keeps on giving.' I always thought that was a bunch of nonsense.
There are no worse cliches than southern cliches. They make my skin crawl.
The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.
I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner.
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.
So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.
