On the title of her book Love (2003), in O, The Oprah Magazine (November 2003) http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/200311/omag_200311_toni_b.jhtml <br class="br">Context: It is easily the most empty cliché, the most useless word, and at the same time the most powerful human emotion — because hatred is involved in it, too. I thought if I removed the word from nearly every other place in the manuscript, it could become an earned word. If I could give the word, in my very modest way, its girth and its meaning and its terrible price and its clarity at the moment when that is all there is time for, then the title does work for me.
“It is a cliché that most clichés are true, but then like most clichés, that cliché is untrue.”
Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
1990s, Moab is My Washpot (autobiography, 1997)
Variant: It is a cliché that most clichés are true, but then like most clichés, that cliché is untrue.
Martin Amis (1949) Welsh novelist
Review of Ulysses by James Joyce, p. 444
The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (2001)
“Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.”
Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist
““Most people have a price. And they have a price because of human emotions named fear and greed.”
Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
“I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise
Source: This Side of Paradise
Warren G. Harding (1865–1923) American politician, 29th president of the United States (in office from 1921 to 1923)
Inaugural address (4 March 1921).
1920s
