Best Overused Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life'; banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'.”

Source: Healology

“I think it tends to be overused and can be a little bit gimmicky. A lot of people are using 3-D now because they feel have they have to... that will come and go and the pictures that deserve to be in 3-D will continue to be. When it's done bad, it can make you carsick.”

People Thinking Feels Littles Done Bits Little Bit Deserve Comes And Goes Overused

Author:Joe Johnston

“Even if I had $200 million, I’m very wary of overusing CGI. I think it’s a great tool and it can be used really effectively, but I feel like it does tend to be overused and especially in sci-fi stuff.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Doe Used Stuff Millions Tools Sci Fi Cgi Overused

Author:Rian Johnson

“Use lots of exclamation points. They love to be overused.”

Use Exclamation Overused Exclamation Points

Author:Sark

“A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.”

Hands Lost Grows Identity Taste Familiar Dull Shops Coats Second Hand Overused

Author:Anais Nin

“In England "The Day After," though unpopular with viewers, seems to have confirmed the average Englishman's mindless prejudice against Kansas. Shortly after the film portrayed that state being turned into an overused barbecue pit by nuclear weapons, support for British nuclear weapons rose a full percentage point.”

States Seems Film Support Weapons Prejudice England Rose Average British Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Viewers Percentages Pits Englishmen Mindless Kansas Barbecue Overused

Author:Emmett Tyrrell

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

I Can Honest Capacity Deception Melody Cliche Tricky Vernacular Subtext Overused

Author:Andrew Bird

“I'd like to change the depictions of life, love, and adventure under what's known as the typical, overused backdrop of Hollywood.”

Known Adventure Hollywood Love Life Typical Backdrop Depiction Overused

Author:Romany Malco

“I think that Lethal Weapon-style dialogue is overused, it's a necessary aspect of high action films where you have to have the smart retort. You have to say "I'll be back baby" and stuff. It's not my style.”

Thinking Action Film Stuff Style Baby Weapons Smart Aspect Dialogue Action Films Retorts Overused Lethal Weapon

Author:George Lucas

“Well, I think “likability” is an overused word. I don’t watch people 'cause I like them; I watch them because they’re compelling. Sympathetic is a little different... Likable just thins you out. Working to make a character likable is what kills most TV shows.”

People Thinking Wells Littles Different Character Shows Causes Watches Tvs Compelling Tv Shows Sympathetic Overused

Author:Louis C. K.

“I've probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it's so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.”

Real Reality Happens Moving Individual Simple Objects Communication Type Bird Flight Organisms Flocks Analogies Overused

Author:Biz Stone

“When you know what you like and what you want and you're able to nudge things in the right direction, that's more profitable than ever, because there's so much information out there. Everything's saturated. Tastemaker is probably the most overused word, but I still think it's important.”

Thinking Knows Want Stills Important Able Information What You Want Profitable Right Direction Saturated Nudge Overused

Author:A-Trak

“This word gets overused in describing actors but I think it applies to Mike [Tyson] in this case - he was totally fearless. He jumped in and played with us comedically and improvised a lot. A lot of jokes in those scenes with him are from him improvising.”

Thinking Actors Cases Scene Jokes Fearless Mike Describing Improvising Tyson Overused

Author:Ed Helms

“It's very difficult, historically, to define what an elite is. But whatever it is, people are very angry at that idea, I think, not so much because of wealth or privilege as much as attitude that the populous masses, if I could use that overused term, feel that a particular government or cultural group is not subject to the ramifications of their own ideology.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Ideas Use Government Difficult Term Wealth Attitude Groups Subjects Particular Mass Angry Privilege Ideology If I Could Elites Ramifications Overused

Author:Victor Davis Hanson

“All entertainment is an element of fantasy because you are seeing something that is not quite real. There is no such thing as reality TV. Reality TV would be to leave a camera on in front of someone's house. Just leave it on. Then whenever the person comes or goes walking the dog or getting groceries, that's what it would be like. Any time you make an edit, you've lost reality TV. You're either compressing time or extending. That's a term that's been overused and overexposed. I think it's fantasy movies that take the fantasy of movies even further.”

Thinking Real Reality House Term Fantasy Dog Walking Overused

Author:Bruce Campbell

“A few years back, even the most commercial pop could have some artistic value. Someone who liked underground music could appreciate Justin Timberlake, too. Now, I just don't get it. Production values are boring; songwriting has gotten worse - the choruses on a lot of popular hip-hop songs are especially bad. The rappers hit their flow in the verses, then when they try to sing, it's a mess. And just like the airbrush tool in Photoshop, Autotune is way overused. It's not a toy!”

Trying Values Song Appreciate Boring Mess Artistic Songwriting Rapper Verses Chorus Overused

Author:Jorge Elbrecht

“I feel a particular sense of responsibility when you're taking something from the magazine directly and putting it in video. You can't be too flat. You need to have personality. You can't just scream out to the viewer. You need to have a fresh take on something or have a new look or have an interesting style, or be so raw that it resonates and is authentic. I think authentic is a good word. It's overused, I know, but I think it comes across in the video medium. If you can make a video authentic, it comes across.”

Thinking Interesting Responsibility Style Personality Scream Sense Of Responsibility Overused

Author:Dawn Ostroff

“I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused.”

Hard Bits Hard Work Overcoming Obstacles Overused

Author:Marlee Matlin

“I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.”

Writing Character Interesting Journey Good Writing Interesting Characters Overused

Author:Alan Rickman

“I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.”

Feels Sometimes Force Easy Talent Being Me Overused

Author:Ben Affleck

“Soulmate" is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare, and very real.”

Real Soul Term Connections Mates Soulmate Soul Mate Your Soulmate My Soul Mate My Soulmate Overused Your My Soulmate Souls In Love Real Connection Soulmates Best Friends

Book:Devoted: An Elixir Novel

Source: Devoted: An Elixir Novel

“I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.”

“The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.”

Feels Writing Mean Different Example Reader Thousand Weapons Different Things Flawed Words Love Overused

Book:The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still do not have a dime but I have a great vocabulary.”

Thinking Stills Self Used Culture Justice Poor Diversity Social Justice Vocabulary Deprived Needy Dimes Disadvantaged Underprivileged Overused

Author:Jules Feiffer

“You can't handle the truth!”

“Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.”

World Half Known Genius Dozen Overused

Author:Fritz Kreisler

“Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to know new people who think in different ways. I want to hear myself referred to as Elie Saab, without labels or titles.”

People Thinking Knows Way Want Ideas Different Given Chance Known Labels Titles Different Ways New Ideas Overused

Author:Elie Saab

“The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts”

Adventure Travel Overused Patagonia

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused.”

People Thinking Effects Stupid Starting Silly Overused

Author:Richard Donner

“Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius.”

Thinking Used Genius Mcqueen Overused

Author:Lupita Nyong'o

“I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.”

Way Said Genius Hollywood Overused

Author:Ted McGinley

“I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.”

Thinking Black White South Black And White Vocabulary Overused

Author:Artur Davis

“I'm often asked how I define "success." It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things - achievement and appreciation. One isn't enough: Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable. Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy.”

Two Enough Term Views Achievement Appreciation Miserable Combination Beast Two Things Ambitious Elusive Define Success Overused

Author:Tim Ferriss

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