Gimmicks Quotes

Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

The public want honesty from their politicians. Not showy gimmicks.

The gospel of Christ has never needed the gimmicks of man to effect conversion in the soul

If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.

I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.

February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.

The world is nothing but a big gimmick.

I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.

No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway.

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them.

You've seen one gimmick, you've seen them all.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

This is deeply disturbing. Congress provided loans to help businesses hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks, not to be used as an accounting gimmick to cover up this administration's failure to provide for small businesses.

When you're in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it's a huge advantage.

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.

Theory and knowledge remain suspect, not because of inherent worthlessness, but because of their historic isolation from action. Without theoretical orientation, however, action is vulnerable to oversimplified and glib imitativeness-even mimicry-and to the use of the gimmick.

I spent my life - all my life - learning to wrestle. It's the only means of livelihood I've ever had and, uh, the only gimmick that I have in wrestling is wrestling.

[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.

These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act.

Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.

In a modern world, increasingly filled with pop culture fads and gimmicks, Lisa Morton reveals much of the underbelly history and unknown facts regarding the biggest pop culture event in history-Halloween. Her sheer delight and well-researched enthusiasm in tackling many of the unrecognized aspects of this monstrous topic makes one wonder what we don't know about everything else that should be as commonplace to our psyche as a bag of candy.

Gas tax holiday is a classic Washington gimmick.

Every season we try to do something new. And not for gimmicks. We feel the show has to evolve and keep changing.

So there's that, and then there's always things you can do with the tips. Except for this, what they call the arrow tips, they'll all be non-lethal cause again we're not trying kill anybody, just sort of take control of the situation. They'll probably throw in a lot of gimmicks with the tips and trick arrows, and things like that. And ya the new, cool.

Why is a movie starring women considered a gimmick and a movie starring men is just a normal movie?

The 2-D movie works as well as the 3-D movie. I want to make sure that people like the 2-D version. It's not a gimmick. It actually improves the viewing experience, but the movie stands on its own.

The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and death are realities.

Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.

As your heart goes, so goes your family! If your heart isn't right, no child raising system, rules, or gimmicks will ever work. As your heart goes, so goes your parenting!

My own sense and taste in 3D films has been I don't really like it when it feels like it's a gimmick and it's coming at me, it's flying at me.

I don't make films that are easy to market, unfortunately. I think that 'Pi' was the easiest one, because we had that symbol to stick up everywhere, so that was a good gimmick, and created a good mystery, and we didn't have to do huge scale.

I feel like the high-concept shows that have some kind of gimmick tend not to be the hit classic shows of all time.

I don't like 3D. I don't believe there is any film that I have seen and loved that would have been improved by a scintilla in 3D. To me, it's just a gimmick.