{"quotes":[{"text":"I am so tired of this gothic crap,” I muttered. “Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.","author":"Seanan McGuire","tags":["an-artificial-night","cliche","funny","gothic","humor","kittens","october-daye","sarcasm","seanan-mcguire","toby-daye","villain"],"id":4475,"author_id":"Seanan+McGuire"},{"text":"Cliche but accurate: Kick a football, then ask it whether it meant to fly. All action demands an equal and opposite reaction. You can't blame an object battered by inertial forces; you can't blame me, bouncing through the pinball machine of life.","author":"Robin Wasserman","tags":["action","cause","cause-and-effect","cliche","effect","life","life-lessons","life-philosophy","life","result"],"id":11904,"author_id":"Robin+Wasserman"},{"text":"Spring, spring! Bytuene Mershe ant Averil, when spray biginneth to spring! When shaws be sheene and swards full fayre, and leaves both large and longe! When the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces, in the spring time, the only pretty ring time, when the birds do sing, hey-ding-a-ding ding, cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-wee, ta-witta-woo! And so on and so on and so on. See almost any poet between the Bronze Age and 1805.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["cliche","poetry","spring"],"id":14803,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"As cliché as it might sound, I'd rather lose than win by cheating. The latter is a much deeper, more personal loss in that one is admittedly whispering to himself his lack of competence. His cheating then begets more cheating, as he is ever-privately, ever-subconsciously insulting himself; thus, gradually deteriorating any remaining confidence.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["academics","cheating","cliche","college","confidence","dignity","exams","games","honesty","honor","honor-code","insecurity","insult","integrity","losing","lying","mental","noble","personal","psychology","quizzes","school","sin","sincerity","sports","subliminal","subsconscious","tests","whisper","winning"],"id":22420,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"We both smile at the classic misunderstanding. It’s all so cliché-ridden, it’s embarrassing. I wish our story could have some more original twists and turns. Maybe one of us will turn into a vampire or something.","author":"Stacy Kramer","tags":["cliche","misunderstanding","wit"],"id":28763,"author_id":"Stacy+Kramer"},{"text":"A society where everyone is following his own unique path has a much better chance to find the truth than the society where everyone is following some known cliché paths!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["cliche","cliches","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","path","paths","society","true-path","true-paths","truth","truth","truth","truths","turkish-aphorisms","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-sayings","turkish-thinkers","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":36535,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"Your fear of becoming a cliche is what turns you into one. If you remove the fear, we are all really walking contradictions, hypocrites and paradoxical cliches.","author":"Mohadesa Najumi","tags":["acceptance","ascension","bell-hooks","brain","cliche","connectedness","consciousness","embodiment","enlightenment","fetters","happiness","heartbreak","hypocrite","life","loss","love","matrix","mental-power","neuroscience","osho","pain","paradox","philosophy","psycology","relationship","self-awareness","self-help","self-love","self-mastery","society","sociology","spirituality","third-eye","understanding"],"id":81285,"author_id":"Mohadesa+Najumi"},{"text":"Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliche. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.","author":"Paul R. Halmos","tags":["cliche","deductive-logic","experimentation","guesswork","hypotheses","mathematics","prove","reason","trial"],"id":105142,"author_id":"Paul+R.+Halmos"},{"text":"You make me love books and the words inside them, because they talk about you. I know they do, they tell me that I love you, not as cliché as I write it, but in the warmest, deepest, calmest words I could ever read. I love you, like the books say it. And I'll find a better way to say it one day.","author":"Nema Al-Araby","tags":["books","cliche","feelings","love","reading"],"id":128297,"author_id":"Nema+Al-Araby"},{"text":"Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter.","author":"Patrick Cockburn","tags":["cliche","conventional-thinking","euphemism","language","laziness","savagery","slaughter","war"],"id":155854,"author_id":"Patrick+Cockburn"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}