No Gimmicks Quotes

#1. I believe in keeping running simple and, in regard to shoes, that would mean no gimmicks, unnecessary cushioning, etc.

Bill Rodgers

#2. As mentioned earlier, the primary way to create and sustain excitement in a sexual relationship is through honesty. It provides a sense of newness and surprise that can't be matched by any of the standard gimmicks for improving a couple's sex life. NOT

Peggy Vaughan

#3. Gimmicks? Here we go again. I'm tired of people sayin' we rely on gimmicks. What is this? The world is nothin' but a big gimmick isn't it? Wars, napalm bombs and all that. People being burned-up on TV ... Yes, we do.

Jimi Hendrix

#4. Night and day a picture of the showcase of the Lame Novelty Company and its gambling content would seem to appear before my eyes. Then I realized that I could not rest content and continue practising to become a magician until I knew what those gambling gimmicks in that showcase click.

John Scarne

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

Paul Feig

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

Iggy Pop

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

Ferdinand Porsche

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

Farley Mowat

#9. I want to show my range before I fall into any typecasting. I've turned down a lot of things trying to wait. But at the end of my career, whether that be tomorrow or 40 years from now, I would like to look back and be able to say, 'Ah, I never fell into any gimmicks.'

Troy Garity

#10. People want gimmicks. They have to lose 10 pounds by 8:30 tonight.

Bess Myerson

#11. Sometimes, early in their careers, chefs make the mistake of adding one too many things to a plate to get attention. If a chef is just coming up with wiz-bang gimmicks on their plate, that has nothing to do with bringing real pleasure to people.

Danny Meyer

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

Tom Colicchio

#13. gimmicks. A closer look at the online school movement illustrates how tax dollars and philanthropic donations are being used to fuel huge windfalls in the private sector.

Linsey McGoey

#14. We don't dance because we can't dance. Our shows, production-wise, are always quite minimal. We always try and keep it more about us having fun and stay away from gimmicks.

Louis Tomlinson

#15. Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author.

William Zinsser

#16. I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something.

Billy Eckstine

#17. Our thoughts and desires are based in hope, but our behaviors are based in fear. This misalignment often causes a feeling of hopelessness and continues the cycle of feeding outdated ideologies and Guru genres offering gimmicks to anesthetize the pain.

Steve Maraboli

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

Billy Eckstine

#19. 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!

Jim George

#20. If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.

John P. Kotter

#21. The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace.

Thomas Merton

#22. It's not about knowing all the gimmicks and photo tricks. If you haven't got the eye, no program will give it to you.

David Carson

#23. Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age and the people of our age

August Sander

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

J. Michael Straczynski

#25. Today's marketing success comes from self-publishing web content that people want to share. It's not about gimmicks. It's not about paying an agency to interrupt others.

David Meerman Scott

#26. I just happen to comprehend the low standards of the majority of the music-buying public, and I don't care how condescending that sounds, it's true. They always go for the shiny gimmicks. Always.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#27. Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

Tom Shales

#28. Being up on something is a way of dismissing it. To espouse any point of view is a danger - it might leave us stuck with last year's cause. Prized for their novelty alone, ideas, gimmicks, trends become equivalent, interchangeable.

Edmund White

#29. It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new sciences,new talks, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks.

U.G. Krishnamurti

#30. Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

Cornel West

#31. You know I don't have any gimmicks really. I don't have any silly things that I say; I don't know, I guess I'm just going to have a really hot dress and a nice pair of shoes and just go out there and look fabulous and try to sing my best.

Katharine McPhee

#32. No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.

Richard Simmons

#33. a significant amount of Conventional Wisdom about healthy eating is marketing fodder that grossly distorts the fundamental truth that humans thrive on natural plant and animal foods or that relies on gimmicks to support the dogma of flawed, manipulated "research.

Mark Sisson

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

Mark Dever

#35. I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.

Iggy Azalea

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

Barbara Corcoran

#37. I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.

Lana Del Rey

#38. I don't like to have gimmicks. I don't like to have gadgets and stuff. I just like to go out there and entertain the fans by wrestling.

Kurt Angle

#39. Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

J. C. Watts

#40. Gas tax holiday is a classic Washington gimmick.

Barack Obama

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

Terrell Suggs

#42. I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.

Charles R. Swindoll