The Reason That Clichs Become Clichs Is That They Are The Hammers And Screwdrivers In The Toolbox Of

The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.

Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett

Will Turner: You ignored the rules of engagement. In a fair fight, I'd kill you. Jack Sparrow: Then that's not much incentive for me to fight fair, now is it?

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

…you can bury stuff under other stuff, you can hide it in plain sight, you just don’t think it clearly or you convince yerself the opposite of what yer hiding is true and then who’s going to be able to pick out from the flood what’s real water and what’s not going to get you wet? Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.

The Knife of Never Letting Go; Patrick Ness

There are some things that can beat smartness and foresight? Awkwardness and stupidity can. The best swordsman in the world doesn't need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn't do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn't prepared for him; he does the thing he ought not to do; and often it catches the expert out and ends him on the spot.

Mark Twain

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, other would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart bear, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

Middlemarch; George Eliot

The Noise is a man unfiltered, and without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

The Knife of Never Letting Go; Patrick Ness