Top 31 Gimmicky Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Gimmicky

#1. As ye sow, so shall ye reap. When a ballet company spends a lot of money on gimmicky pieces, it's stuck with them for a while - they have to earn their keep.

Robert Gottlieb

#2. The gimmicky thing I'm not very keen on.

Manolo Blahnik

#3. I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.

Daniel Boulud

#4. Music videos were this lucky career opportunity. They were assignments. I was providing a service, and they were meant to be punchy and gimmicky and fun.

Mark Romanek

#5. Organic' ... means that the work is an extension of your blood and body: it has the rhythm of nature. There exists a state of feeling that when you reach it, when you hit it, you can't go wrong. The work carries a body rhythm. You can't do the slick ... the gimmicky or dishonest.

Nell Blaine

#6. Slim Shady is just the evil thoughts that come into my head. Things I shouldn't be thinking about. Not to be gimmicky, but people should be able to determine when I'm serious and when I'm f ... around. That's why a lot of my songs are funny. I got a warped sense of humor I guess.

Eminem

#7. 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.

Joe Johnston

#8. I heard in my own voice the tulmult of a young man playig a role, uneasily, repackaging black R&B music from America, relying on gimmicky outfits, and pretending to be wild & free when in reality he needed to be looked after by his mother.

Pete Townshend

#9. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late, but it's the first thing I think of when I wake, and the last thing I think of before I fall asleep, even if J. is in my bed. She should understand, the artist lives in two worlds.

David Mitchell

#10. In my work, I wanted something irreducible, an absence of the gimmicky and clever.

Isamu Noguchi

#11. You don't get the pay-off when you're playing a quiet character, so sometimes you want to just throw out all your work and say, "Okay, let me do something really funny or gimmicky, just so that I can get some attention in this scene."

Viola Davis

#12. I don't like gimmicky pictures; I've always hated them. I like pictures that are very clear and clean, whether you're a great street photographer - somebody like Friedlander or Winogrand or Cartier-Bresson - or whether you're a portraitist, like Irving Penn.

Mary Ellen Mark

#13. He who trades pacing for gimmicky open-world freedom deserves neither.

Yahtzee Croshaw

#14. This is much more than your typical thriller. Tim Johnston has written a book that makes Gone Girl seem gimmicky ... Johnston is an excellent writer. You want to set this one down so you can take a breath, and keep reading
all at the same time.

Alan Cheuse

#15. Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape. There is this breed of gimmicky documentary that is basically a reality show.

Todd Phillips

#16. Well mine is not gimmicky - it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think positively.

Richard Simmons

#17. I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.

Daniel Boulud

#18. I have met Vladimir Putin, and I know his ambition will not be detoured by a gimmicky red, reset button.

Carly Fiorina

#19. My first app was released in July or August of 2008. It was a 'fingermill' - a treadmill for your fingers. My level of programming was quite basic to begin with, so it was more gimmicky to start with. Day one it was up there, I had 79 pounds worth of revenue.

Nick D'Aloisio

#20. If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.

Jack Whittaker

#21. Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything.

David Cameron

#22. What we're also doing is helping police forces in terms of issues like procurement and IT, so that savings can be made in those areas which I think is the sort of thing that everybody is going to want us to be doing.

Theresa May