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.

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

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

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.

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

I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

[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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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