We're using the science fiction cliches of the 1950s to set the mind off in a certain direction, then sabotage it with a surprise.
Quotes about cliches (11 Quotes)
I really liked the idea of delivering an American character who defied some of the cultural cliches we have been exporting to the rest of the world. A character who was awkward, vulnerable, young, innocent, neurotic, somewhat alien,
The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.
was made into an award-winning film, ''for her musical flow of voices and countervoices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power.
Any points the President can score in the market these days are welcome. One of the oldest cliches about the market is that it hates uncertainty, ... And uncertainty has certainly been intensified by the all this public debate over Iraq within Bush's inner circle.
Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar cliches or a wild scramble for novelty. Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance. Form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.
The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths.
Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.
I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.
The artist must summon all his energy, his sincerity, and the greatest modesty in order to shatter the old cliches that come so easily to hand while working, which can suffocate the little flower that does not come, ever, the way one expects.