Tacky Quotes

It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky. I feel like tasteful is very unique...it's not necessarily wearing a bunch of chains - that could be either tasteful or tacky. It just depends on how you wear them and what kind of chains they are.

I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

It's funny because I think it also goes very well with the show. It has this reputation as being this love city where everyone goes to get married, but when you get there, it's very corny and tacky.

Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.

Talking about money is garish. It's tacky.

Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the same.

And there's doctors and lawyers, And business executives, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same.

Of course, personally, I think it'd be tacky to wear diamonds before I'm forty.

Sexual underwear is tacky.

You don't have sex near unicorns. It's an ironclad rule. It's tacky.

I have done some tacky films, but then they were all my decisions, and I'm happy to have made those because they have made me who I am.

Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.

But I know what I like.' She smiled, and et the cat drop to the floor. 'It's like Tiffany's,'she said. 'Not that I give a hoot about jewellery. Diamonds, yes. But it's tacky to wear diamonds before you're forty; and even that's risky.

I think it's tacky to have chains that go all the way down to your crotch.

We're not going to have a party when half of our friends... can't do that thing we're doing. We're not going to ask them to come celebrate a right they don't have. That's just tacky! Forget like anything else, it's like really tacky for us

Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!

My style is ghetto chic. I love tacky jewelry, mega heels, high-waisted shorts, catsuits.

The Iraqi is really not whacky toady, perhaps, even tacky. When they gave him the word, he gave us the bird and joined with the Arabs, by cracky!

I've developed a bit of a fascination with John Denver. I always thought he was kind of tacky and somewhat revolting and had a kind of simplistic weirdness, but on second listen, he actually did have an incredible voice, and the blatant naiveté of his work is straight-edge, in a way.

I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.

I'm not 18 anymore, so I'm not into starting unnecessary beefs. It's tacky.

I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.

I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue.

I would never speak about specifics in my own relationships because I think it's tacky. If you seriously want to know, listen to the music.