Overused Cliche Quotes & Sayings

Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They're all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They're tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky. — Andrew Bird

But even more heavenly than the flashing
stars are those infinite eyes which the night opens within us, and which see further even than the palest of those
innumerable hosts. — Novalis

Success and failure are not true op-posites and they're not even in the same class; they're not even a couch and a chair. — Lillian Hellman

I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind. — Zach Braff

It is the intelligent and highly educated that agonize over their limitations. — Louis Eliot

If there's a password needed at the gates of heaven, only Latin will unlock it, he thinks. — Kimberly Morgan

I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors ... and it's the shade that defines the light. — Tori Amos

love was nothing but a prison for fools. — Roberta Kagan

I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist. — Yann Martel

There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce. — Benjamin Disraeli

It's very interesting to know what people are doing while you're working on late-night television. — Craig Ferguson

Thank you ... fat dude with giant headphones on the subway, for looking like what would've happened if Jabba the Hutt mated with Princess Leia. — Jimmy Fallon

Outside the box is an overused cliche which goes nowhere near far enough. In fact, there are so many politicians and salesmen thinking outside the box these days that I am convinced that all of their boxes are completely empty! — Lance Greenfield